Administration OFFICE OF THE ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost Stuart R. Bell, PhD
OFFICE OF EQUITY, DIVERSITY & COMMUNITY OUTREACH (EDCO) www.lsu.edu/diversity Interim Vice Provost Kenneth O. Miles Assistant to the Vice Provost & Director Chaunda Allen, PhD Administrative Executive Assistant Tarchia Rankins-Lollis, MS Graduate Assistant Vincent Harris, M.Ed. COMMUNITY UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP www.lsu.edu/cup Community Affairs Liaison and External Partnership Officer Brandon M. Smith, MPA LOUISIANA CENTER ADDRESSING SUBSTANCE USE IN COLLEGIATE COMMUNITIES www.lsu.edu/lacasu Associate Director Bret Blackmon, MSW OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
LSU Diversity Statement Diversity is fundamental to LSU's mission and the University is committed to creating and maintaining a living and learning environment that embraces individual difference. Cultural inclusion is of highest priority. LSU recognizes that achieving national prominence depends on the human spirit, participation, and dedicated work of the entire University community. Flagship: 2020 will be realized by bringing together diverse ideas, perspectives, skills, and talents of the nation's pre-eminent scholars, brightest students, and leading higher education professionals. Through its Commitment to Community, LSU strives to create an inclusive, respectful, intellectually challenging climate that embraces individual difference in race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, spirituality, socioeconomic status, disability, family status, experiences, opinions, and ideas. LSU proactively cultivates and sustains a campus environment that values open dialogue, cooperation, shared responsibility, mutual respect, and cultural competence– the driving forces that enrich and enhance cutting edge research, first-rate teaching, and engaging community outreach activities.
www.lsu.edu/oma Director Chaunda Allen, PhD
Editors: Chaunda Allen, PhD, Assistant to the Vice Provost & Director Vincent Harris, M.Ed., Graduate Assistant
WOMEN’S CENTER www.lsu.edu/wc Director Summer Steib, MA
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About this Report This annual report highlights diversity efforts of Equity, Diversity & Community Outreach and the entire University. This report does not capture all of the outstanding work carried out by our faculty, staff, and students . We invite readers to visit the LSU homepage, Diversity page, and the website of each college and unit to explore the ways in which we embrace DIVERSE PEOPLE with DIVERSE TALENTS.