Auburn University Office of Inclusion and Diversity

We strive to offer a comprehensive range of exemplary educational programs that foster and sustain an environment that promotes academic excellence, resprespects differences, and accepts inclusiveness. Diversity at Auburn University encompasses the whole of human experience and includes such human qualities as race, gender, ethnicity, physical ability, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientatio

n, economic status, and veteran status. These and other socially and historically important attributes reflect the complexity of our increasingly diverse student body, local community, and national population. Auburn University recognizes and values the considerable educational benefits emanating from diversity as we prepare our students for life and leadership in a multicultural world. Students who interact with and learn about people from a variety of backgrounds are more apt to understand, appreciate, and excel in the community they inhabit. In this context, diversity is aligned with Auburn University’s land grant mission of providing its students with a superior education in service to the needs of Alabama, the nation, and the world. The primary purpose of the Office of Inclusion and Diversity is to accomplish the mission set forth in Auburn University's Strategic Diversity Plan (SDP): Establish diversity as a core value at Auburn University.