IUPUI Chancellor Gerald Bepko appointed the Diversity Cabinet in 2000 to oversee the "transformation of IUPUI from a campus that believes in diversity to a campus that lives its commitment to diversity." Working out of the chancellor"s office, the Diversity Cabinet includes community representatives, faculty and staff members, and administrative officers with particular responsibility for advancing diversity initiatives. The cabinet"s activities include reviewing faculty recruitment, development, and retention; encouraging new diversity initiatives; helping the campus develop relationships with relevant community groups; working with P-12 teachers, administrators, and school districts with an eye to increasing student diversity on campus; and creating and reviewing unit action plans and progress reports on enhancing diversity at IUPUI. The cabinet has also created an annual "State of Diversity" report, published and delivered annually by the chancellor on Martin Luther King Day, to review the progress of the campus in relation to the goals and benchmarks for diversity that we have established.
