Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will be hosting an opening ceremony to celebrate the start of Native and Indigenous Heritage Month. All are invited to join the virtual event and the in-person watch location and reception from 4-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1 in the Morris University Center’s International Room on Edwardsville’s campus. 

“I expect a deep and complex engagement around the topics of Indigenous sovereignty, conquest, survivance and refusal,” said D...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville held the fifth annual Diversity Day on Tuesday, Oct. 11. The SIUE community came together to learn more about initiatives supportive of inclusive excellence at the Edwardsville, East St. Louis and Alton campuses.

“As a university-wide experience, Diversity Day provides a platform to celebrate diversity, build community, and learn how inclusive excellence is being activated across the campuses,” said SIUE Chancellor James T. Minor, PhD. &#822...

“Within the Black community, mental health is seen as a weakness. There are so many barriers that keep the community from wanting to seek this help. Everyone’s mental health matters. We deserve to feel mentally happy and whole inside.”

These words from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville senior public health major Jordan Washington pinpoint one of the reasons why the Association for the Study of African American Life and History established Black Health and Wellness as t...