Diversity and Inclusion

Students with Buster Bronco holding the WMU flag

Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5372 USA
(269) 387-6313

Welcome future Broncos!

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion welcomes you to WMU! We look forward to you being a part of our inclusive campus.

 

 

Our Ongoing Commitment to Dismantling Systemic Barriers

We are unequivocally committed to the movement to create equity for all groups on campus. We stand in solidarity with those that have been disenfranchised. Therefore, our focus as we move forward is to clarify our role and work, which is to educate and provide programming and strategies to dismantle institutional and systemic inequities at Western Michigan University. 

The Vice-Presidential area of Diversity and Inclusion is working to create engaging and challenging programming with an emphasis on expanding perspectives. We invite all levels of the University to weave fair practices throughout the work that is conducted on behalf of this University. Together, we can build a better University that truly demonstrates the values that support our motto so that all may learn.

 

 

Land Acknowledgment Statement 

Land acknowledgment is a process by which individuals are prompted to consider the history of the space they currently inhabit.

We would like to recognize that Western Michigan University is located on lands historically occupied by Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadmi nations. Please take a moment to acknowledge and honor this ancestral land of the Three Fires Confederacy, the sacred lands of all indigenous peoples, and their continued presence.
 
The Western Michigan University Land Acknowledgment statement was written in colaboration with the Gun Lake Tribe, The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi tribe, and the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi tribe.