The DEIB Toolbox provides support for efforts to promote diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging—in your department or unit, and throughout the KU campus. The Orientation and Resources tabs provide information on:

For guidance in implementing each phase of the DEIB Action Cycle, click on any of these circles: Engage,  Assess, Plan, Act, and Evaluate.

The Video: Rise to the Occasion provides an overview of KU’s framework for strengthening diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at KU.

Using these tools and the KU RISE framework, we can work together to reach our goals of cultivating a campus of belonging for all.

Video: RISE to the Occasion

Orientation and Resources

Student models on campus.

What is the DEIB Toolbox? Who is the toolbox for?

What is the DEIB Toolbox? The DEIB Toolbox provides support for campus efforts to promote diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in your department or unit, and throughout the KU campus. …

Group of female students having a discussion around a table.

Working Together for a Diverse and Inclusive Environment

Our shared vision is that KU is a richly diverse place for all of us to participate and engage in a welcoming environment where everyone feels that their contributions and …

Group of diverse students in hallway.

DEIB: Understanding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Diversity What is it? The term diversity encompasses all the ways in which people differ from one another. This includes, but is not limited to, social identities such as racial …

Portrait of multiracial student in hallway.

RISE: Realizing Intersectional Standards of Excellence

KU’s mission is to, “Educate leaders, build healthy communities, and make discoveries that change the world.” When we “Realize Intersectional Standards of Excellence,” we contribute to the fulfilment of KU’s …

Getting Started

How to Use the DEIB Toolbox

Students gather near Potter Lake to celebrate the Hindu holiday Holi by throwing vibrantly colored powders in the air and at each other. The celebration was sponsored by the Association of Indian Students (AIS).
Students
Two diverse young women work together off of a laptop.
Staff
C&PE 619 Petroleum Engineering Lab with Dr. Paul Willhite.
Faculty
Undergraduate researchers from the Lawrence and Medical Center campuses presented their research projects Feb. 18 at the Kansas Capitol for the Kansas Undergraduate Research Day. The event is intended to raise awareness of the research being conducted by undergraduate students at state universities. Undergraduate Nicole Humphrey meets with John Augusto, the Director for Center for Undergraduate Research, in the Senate Chambers at the Kansas State Capitol.
Administrators

DEIB Newsletter

Archives and Registration

Action Cycle for Advancing DEIB

Engage


Assess

Plan

Act

Evaluate