As part of President Schmidt's RPI Forward Vision and Roadmap for the Future, we are reimagining our founding vision and charting a pioneering course. The Office of Inclusive Excellence collaborates with other areas within the Division of the Student Experience and across the Institute to advance efforts to foster the academic success of students. Our office develops and implements programs and policies, which support the Institute’s vision for the recruitment, matriculation, success, and graduation of students!

RPI's Mission Towards A Welcoming and Inclusive Community:

It is time to consider ways to… 

• make navigating a hilly campus with limited accessible buildings much easier for our disabled students
• lift any sense of isolation felt by our international students
• make sure our underrepresented minority students feel fully included in every aspect of life at Rensselaer
• support women students and faculty in departments where they are severely out-numbered—and even the playing field for them in their careers
• instill a sense of safety and belonging in the LGBTQ+ members of our community.

Beyond that, we need to be one Rensselaer in spirit and practice. We may have vastly different backgrounds and experiences, but we cannot allow this to divide us when there is so much potential ahead.