The University Diversity Office is a campus wide resource that facilitates
the diversity initiatives of the University to promote a climate and culture
that respects and celebrates diversity. A significant responsibility of the
office is for the recruitment and retention of a diverse student, faculty and
staff population.

The role and scope of the office is to reach underrepresented groups and
other non-traditional groups included under the board definition of diversity.
Eastern Kentucky University promotes a climate that respects and
celebrates diversity within its community that includes, but is not limited to
race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status, gender, sexual orientation,
disabilities, and cultural or national backgrounds, in pursuit of common unity.