Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Register for the Spring 2024 Undocumented Student Ally Training

  This training provides staff, administration, and faculty information that will allow them to better serve undocumented students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

• Start-up supported by Polsky Small Business Growth Program receives $1 million on Shark Tank

  To promote their launch in Fall 2021, Psyonic received marketing help from student consultants supported in part by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion as part of our partnership with the Polsky Center at the University of Chicago.

• In Remembrance

  In remembrance of Professor Dara E. Goldman.

• A collaborative statement on academic freedom and critical conversations

  To be truly inclusive, our commitment to academic freedom is even more important when controversial topics are discussed. We strive to be the best shared learning community we can be. This statement is part of that process.

• Statement Correcting the Co-sponsorship of Transitional Justice Lecture

  The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion was incorrectly identified as a co-sponsor for a campus lecture titled “Unfinished Business: Zionism as Racism and Racial Discrimination.” As worded, this title does not invite participation and engagement with all members of our community and does not represent the values of our university.

• Updates to COVID-19 Testing to Accommodate Extended Religious Fasts

  A nasal swab test accommodation can be requested for students, faculty and staff who are participating in an extended religious fast.

• OVCDEI Statement in Response to a Recent Act of Anti-Semitism

  Anti-Semitism of any kind is offensive, unacceptable, and antithetical to our university values of inclusion and tolerance. All acts of hate and dehumanization creates cracks in what holds us together as a community, and as a community we must speak out against them.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration 2022

  This year’s celebration will begin with the MLK Advocacy for Justice Celebration, Sunday, January 16 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. keynote by Dr. Derek Barber King, Sr., nephew of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Winter Open House 2021

  Please join us for an open house to celebrate the opening of our new offices on Friday, December 3, 11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

• Four Illinois Faculty and Staff to be Recognized for Dedication to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  This year’s recipients include Leslie K. Morrow, JJ Pionke, Shardé McNeil Smith, and Avital Livny.