Inclusive Excellence

Inclusive Excellence (IE) was developed by experts at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) as a way to re-imagine diversity and inclusion as the active process of making excellence inclusive and the responsibility of everyone. IE was designed to help colleges and universities integrate diversity, equity and educational quality efforts into their missions and institutional operations.
The Inclusive Excellence framework reaffirms the College of Engineering’s commitment to growing and sustaining a diverse and inclusive learning, living and working environment. The AAC&U notes, “the action of making excellence inclusive requires that we uncover inequities in student (faculty and staff) success, identify effective educational (and operational) practices and build such practices; organically for sustained institutional change.”
In order to support the goals outlined in the strategic plan and support those at the university level, we must strive to achieve inclusive excellence – extending outside of our comfort zones to engage across perceived silos, appreciating and leveraging the many dimensions of the diversity of our college community and elevating those voices that have been historically excluded or marginalized. Inclusive excellence is a strategic framework designed to focus our collective efforts on concrete actions that will lead to intellectual growth and innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges facing our region, the nation and the world.
As the College of Engineering, Knowlton School of Architecture, departments and Centers align with the Ohio State Shared Values, we encourage leaders to reference the links to the right to support IE strategic planning.