Articles Tagged: Diversity, equity and inclusion

The city of Cedar Rapids and the Cedar Rapids Tourism Office this week launched a “Welcome is Our Language” campaign to promote the community’s diversity and attractions to residents and visitors.

Corridor group Inclusive ICR launchs a Diversity Equity and Inclusion Index Friday for area organizations.

A diversity-related disagreement among Coe College trustees that started in the fall behind closed doors and bubbled out into the public in subsequent weeks has continued to boil as concerned community members speak out and campus leaders air new grievances, including allegations of “vulgar, sexist, and threatening remarks.”

Four of five University of Iowa undergraduates feel they belong on campus, but percentages drop among minority students — with a quarter of multiracial, Asian, and underrepresented undergrads, and 40 percent of transgender or gender-nonconforming students, saying they don’t feel a sense of belonging

Six years after joining Coe College as provost, Pauline O’Loughlin – also serving as interim dean of students, Title IX coordinator, and collaborator on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts -- is leaving to become provost for another private campus.

Daniel Joiner has been named as the chief diversity officer at UnityPoint Health, a new position created to advance diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives within the health care system.

A new Iowa law that bans teaching “divisive concepts” is having a “chilling effect” on culturally responsive teaching and diversity, equity and inclusion in K-12 schools, some Iowa education experts say. Critical Race Theory is not actually mentioned in the law.

Former Iowa football player Broderick Binns led the athletics department’s efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion since 2019.

Civil Rights Commission Executive Director Stefanie Munsterman-Scriven works to make her community more inclusive.

Students who participate in Future Now are showing positive social-emotional behavior, have a higher attendance rate and are enrolling in classes that are more challenging for them.

Community members and students voice concerns that the Iowa City school district’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan is not enough.

To ensure all Cedar Rapidians have a “mirror” reflecting themselves in library books, staff began auditing the collection in 2018 for representation and have successfully increased diversity, starting with young adult fiction.

“Coe has made significant investments in this area, and will continue to do so going forward,” says the college’s new president.

Racial Equity Connect — or R.E. Connect — was co-founded by Tracy Jon Sargeant and V Fixmer-Oraiz about six months ago. Since then, they have recruited organizations, spoken with elected officials and began creating a network for people of color.

A national nonprofit civil-liberties group is calling on the University of Iowa College of Law to remove or revise a new question it added to faculty evaluation forms asking how the professors have improved their law school’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” — calling those terms “broad,” “subjective,” and “political.”