ASU is deeply committed to positioning itself as one of the great new universities by seeking to build excellence, enhance access, and have an impact on our community, state, nation and the world. To do that, requires that our faculty and staff reflect the intellectual, ethnic, and cultural diversity of our nation and world so that our students learn from the broadest perspectives and we engage in the advancement of knowledge with the most inclusive understanding possible of the issues we are addressing through our scholarship.

As one part of this commitment, we have developed a strategic plan for diversity at ASU. Developed in consultation with a wide variety of constituencies within the university and the deans, this plan called “Building blocks for success through people, programming and policies,” contains a statement which serves as an ongoing touchstone of our commitment and several specific initiatives which will change and evolve over time depending on the challenges and opportunities we have before us. Click on the link below to review the plan.