We are at our best when we engage in dialogue that encompasses the widest range of views and voices. We will not and need not agree on every issue. We can, and should feel free to dispute, debate and challenge ideas and opinions as we choose. But we can always decide to do so in ways that preserve human dignity and recognize the lived experiences of others.
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Reaffirmation of Our Commitment
The diversity of our community and the perspectives, talents, and life experiences reflected within it fuel our creativity, advance deep, critical thinking, as well as the innovations needed to address racism and social disparities to improve the world and lives.
Call to Action: Next Steps Forward
It is now time for this university to place our deep abundance of knowledge, will, and expertise into motion to change the assumptions that inform our decisions to consider the necessary and difficult questions that we need to ask of ourselves as a university.
Title IX and Other Sexual Misconduct Policies and Procedures Update
As we embark on a new academic year, the University of Illinois remains fully committed to the goal of preventing and responding to sexual misconduct.
NAGPRA UPDATE: MORATORIUM
Effective September 15, 2020, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will implement a moratorium on research, teaching, display, imaging, and circulation of human remains and cultural items that are potentially subject to NAGPRA at the University.
A New University Call to Action to Address Racism and Social Injustice
Systemic racism and generationally embedded racial disparity are two of the greatest challenges facing our society. It is time for this university to issue this new and unequivocal Call to Action to address these embedded and persisting disparities at every level.
Where does the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program stand?
Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its favor, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program remains a stopgap measure.
Juneteenth
Today is a day of celebration and a reminder of the work that we as a university must commit to in order to undo anti-Black racism.
U.S. Supreme Court ruling on DACA program
We are most vibrant as a nation when we welcome and support the most vulnerable among us to excel in their academic, creative and professional endeavors. Today’s decision affirms those values.
Reflecting on the events in Minneapolis and beyond
George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. We can say their names and we can help ensure that they are not allowed to be forgotten.