Indiana University Bloomington

On October 16, 2023, in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action, IU stated that it "will not consider race as a factor among factors in the admission to undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree programs." IU will "continue to actively recruit students in a way that emphasizes a diverse campus community" which "includes pathway programs that encourage minority student applicants."

IU's Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lists several scholarship programs that give preference to applicants from "underrepresented and minority backgrounds," including the "Johnson Underrepresented Student Scholarship" and the "Wilma A. and Charles E. Harry, IV Family Scholarship."

The Indiana University Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design and the Jacobs School of Music hosted voluntary virtual workshops on anti-racism, cultural appropriation, and microaggressions.

As part of the College of Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report, the "Cultivating Cultural Intelligence Workshop" teaches "concrete strategies for how to orient" teachers' "own and their students’ behavior, language, communications, values, and ethic perceptions to the identities and realities of others who are different from them." In addition, the College Office of Diversity and Inclusion "launched a 5-part diversity, equity, and inclusion professional development series for College faculty and staff."

The College of Arts and Sciences' Collins Living-Learning Center will be "explicitly addressing programming and curricular offerings to address anti-racism."

According to the "Shared Goals" of the General Education requirements, "Faculty of each undergraduate degree-granting unit must adopt a degree requirement appropriate to their curriculum that addresses issues of diversity in the United States."

IU's Bias Incident Reporting webpage "allows IU to support those impacted and take steps to prevent future incidents."

The music school's Strategic Plan calls for "training in diversity, equity, and inclusivity for all faculty and staff, at the direction of Jacobs Human Resources and Diversity and Inclusion Offices and the Diversity and Equity Committee, in consultation with other units and relevant campus offices, especially the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs (OVPFAA), and the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion."

The Department of Education stated it "will continue to emphasize pedagogy that supports and values diversity, both in our teaching and in our training of teachers."

The Department of English released a "statement of anti-racist solidarity" stating it will expand "support of anti-racist initiatives within the College of Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with other departments, and across the campus." The Department also stated that "Silence normalizes oppression, racial bias, and state-sanctioned murder" and that the members "resolve not to be silent."

Launched 25 grants ($15,000 each) for faculty researching racial equity and justice.

The university has a Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society. The center "awards small grants to support faculty and graduate students conducting ongoing research on topics around race and ethnicity, with options for both research and travel" and "brings together faculty and students who conduct or have interests in race and ethnicity research to provide opportunities for critical and intellectual engagement."

The university funneled $55,000 to "Education Equity: The Role of Schools and Universities in Leveling the Playing Field," a conference which featured featured two prominent critical race theory (CRT) activists, according to media reports.

The Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion provides funding for "high-impact projects that foster an inclusive, nurturing environment for diversity." Projects that directly address "issues related to diversity and inclusion" will receive the highest funding priority.  

The University has dedicated $30,000,000 to the Presidential Diversity Hiring Initiative which is dedicated to "support hiring of tenure-track faculty."

The Kelley Diversity Merit Scholarship is available to incoming freshmen majoring in business, with "special consideration given to underrepresented populations."

The Department of Sociology hosts a "Social Justice Series" that invites scholars to present "research on issues of racial injustice, ethnic inequalities and pathways to social transformation in US society."

The University Police Department released a "commitment to progressive and inclusive policing."

The University recently addressed "Failures in Policing Standards," and stated the IUPD Chief "failed to adhere to protocols." In response, the University "has engaged an external consultant to conduct a thorough review of police departments... with a focus on policies, procedures, practices, cultural norms, and leadership" and has "enhanced training programs on fair and impartial policing, procedural compliance, and field operations."

The University Police Department's training includes Fair and Impartial Policing training which "is a research-based program focused on training officers to recognize their own implicit biases and how to manage them, both on and off duty" and  Procedural Justice training that "has a social justice and historical component that helps officers better understand the wide range of backgrounds and perspectives that may influence interactions with police."

The "Jane Jorgensen Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Internship" allows students to be "recruited to IU as top candidates to further diversify university professional staff."

The Music School's "Inclusion, Equity, Diversity & Justice" page has a link to "Examples of Diversity Statements and Anti-Racism Resources."

The Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs offers offers "Anti-Racist Agenda, Tools, and Resources."

The Department of American Studies at IU's College of Arts and Sciences published its list of faculty members which includes "Critical Race and Postcolonial Studies Affiliate Faculty."

IU's Office of Vice Provost for Diversity & Inclusion links to its school-wide diversity plans and reports which include 15 schools and the IU Libraries.

IU's Office of Vice Provost for Diversity & Inclusion states that "Diversity statements are now the fifth required document of the typical job application" which "help us identify job candidates with the desire, experience, and skill to contribute to IU’s efforts to enhance diversity and inclusion." Additionally, the Office provides tools for assessing diversity statements in job applications to the University.

As part of the College of Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report, the "Radical Inclusive Series" is described as follows: "Through a series of presentations, workshops, and 'Tiny Talks' organized by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the College invited faculty and instructional staff to reflect upon how they engage with students in the classroom, including how their own embodied social positioning affects not only their students’ learning but the culture and climate of the university. We invited them to consider how their words, actions, and behavior in the classroom affect both learning and culture, potentially reinforcing negative stereotypes, undemocratic practices, and forms of oppression."

The College of Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report states that following the Fall 2019 "Inclusive Excellence Summit," then-Dean Van Kooten committed to requesting the following of all College departments: "the formation of a diversity and inclusion committee (by May 15, 2020); a departmental diversity statement (by May 15, 2020); and, an expectation that all TT and NTT applicants for a position in the College include a personal diversity and inclusion statement in their application materials (beginning fall 2020)."

The School of Education regularly hosts DEI events, including Community Conversations, TEA Talks, Professional Development Series, Just Us Gatherings, and DEI Community Connections.

The university urged students to take the IU Diversity Pledge, which includes commitments "To be aware of the bias in my language and actions" and "To understand and acknowledge the race, sexuality, gender, religion, age, education, ability, or socioeconomic privileges I have..." The university also lists the people who have taken the pledge.

The University decided to remove former President David Starr Jordan's name from the biology building "Jordan Hall." The university stated, "The decision comes after a 60-page committee report concluded Jordan's scientific and university histories are not significant enough to outweigh his racism and 'public persona that is now almost entirely tied to the significant role he played in the U.S. eugenics movement'." 

The Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion released a Commitment to Anti-Racism at Indiana University stating the University is "striving for a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive learning environment for people from all backgrounds."