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A Campus of Inclusion and Respect

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CAMPUS

A Campus of Inclusion and Respect

Integrating the values of social justice onto our campuses is a vital part of our Jesuit mission. We are continuously striving to evolve in ensuring our students, faculty, and staff are supported through diversity and inclusion. This includes providing timely synchronous and/or asynchronous resources and reporting repositories as part of our efforts to continually improve and expand our diversity, equity, and inclusion, knowledge and application.

MAKING IT REAL

Institute for Racial Justice

Institute for Racial Justice

The Institute aspires to gain a greater understanding of racism in all its forms and to find new ways of connection and action to facilitate greater equity and justice.

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Center for Diversity and Inclusion

Advances the recognition and appreciation of our diverse community, promotes multicultural education across campus, strives to ensure the retention and success of underrepresented students, and fosters a supportive, inclusive environment for all.

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Student Activities & Greek Affairs

Offering opportunities for students to connect, learn, and engage beyond the classroom. Through shared experiences, students gain a greater sense of self and community to foster positive social change.

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Student Success

Helps students learn about themselves and fundamentally evolve in the way they perceive, think and act in our global society, becoming driven toward action that leads to more just communities.

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Community Living

Live together in a residence hall with other students who share your interests and be part of a tight-knit community within Loyola, making it easy to develop close friendships from the start.

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First-Year Experience

Promotes academic resilience, discernment, and success while navigating the Loyola Student Experience by providing intentional advising, wraparound support, and attainment-based programming.

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Resources

Student Academic Services

Achieving College Excellence

Achieving College Excellence (ACE) is devoted to engaging motivated Scholars who are first-generation, high financial need, and/or have a documented disability as they discern meaning and find direction in their academic, personal, social, spiritual, and professional journeys.

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Office of the Provost

Black Graduate Student Alliance (BGSA)

We are Loyola's first graduate alliance that is dedicated to Black graduate students across the LUC campuses.

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Division of Student Development

Center for Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Diversity and Inclusion strives to be the preeminent Ignatian model of social justice education and multicultural student success. Through facilitating intentional reflection of the intersections of identities and critical social analysis of systems of privilege and oppression, CDI seeks to enhance the experience of all members of the Loyola community by cultivating culturally competent agents of social change.

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Division of Student Development

Center for Student Assistance & Advocacy

As a centralized website for reporting student concerns, CSAA, led by the Office of the Dean of Students (DOS), provides support, coordination, case management, and resource referrals for student concerns across the university.

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Psychology Department

Committee on Diversity Affairs (CODA)

CODA promotes and fosters an academic community that celebrates and supports diversity in multiple areas of departmental life.

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Division of Student Development

Discrimination, Sexual Misconduct, and/or Retaliation Reporting

Need to file a report about Discrimination, Sexual Misconduct, and/or Retaliation? Matters involving a Loyola faculty, staff, or student may be reported online. Please note: Anonymous reporting is available.

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Office of the Provost

Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE)

EDGE is a graduate student collective that strives to promote equity and foster community among graduate students across all intersecting identities.

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Office of the Provost

Gannon Center for Women & Leadership

The Gannon Center educates and fosters women leaders to contribute in the development of a more just social order.

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Division of Student Development

Loyola University Chicago Empowering Sisterhood (LUCES)

LUCES is an intergenerational and intersectional community that serves undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and alumni of Loyola University Chicago to support our experiences as self-identified Women and People of Color (W/POC), including Trans* and gender non-conforming individuals, at a predominately White institution.

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Veteran Services

Military Veteran Student Services

MVSS supports our military affiliated students with their integration into the Loyola community. Through academic and social programming, MVSS staff assists students in identifing the correct resources that will empower them to reach their full potential, ensuring the greatest impact in the community and beyond.

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Division of Student Development

Multicultural Living-Learning Community

The Multicultural Living-Learning Community is home to students who share a passion for exploring issues of diversity and social justice and becoming agents of social change.

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Division of Student Development

Rambler Brotherhood Project

The Rambler Brotherhood Project (RBP), first unveiled in spring 2023, is a student success initiative that aims to improve the educational experience for all students. Through a host of mentorship, programmatic, and academic opportunities, the Rambler Brotherhood Project aims to instill a sense of resilience and belonging in all students. RBP is open to all students who are interested in and committed to the program’s mission, regardless of their gender identity or sex.

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Student Academic Services

New Student Programs (NSP)

The Special Populations Team promotes academic resilience, discernment, and success while navigating the Loyola Student Experience by providing intentional advising, wraparound support, and attainment based programming.

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Division of Student Development

Office for Equity & Compliance (OEC)

The Office for Equity & Compliance (“OEC”) centralizes and coordinates University-wide compliance with Title IX and other equity-based federal and state laws and regulations. The OEC exists to promote a culture of safety and inclusion within all University workplaces and educational settings.

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Division of Student Development

Q-Initiatives (Queer Initiatives)

Queer Initiatives are spaces and programs for anyone identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer in any way.

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Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

Rambler Alliance for Equity

Rambler Athletics initiatives to provide an environment where individuals feel safe, respected and valued regardless of, but not limited to, their race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender orientation, religious beliefs or age.

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Stritch School of Medicine

Stritch School of Medicine Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Through our initiatives and programs, the Stitch Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion aims to create a climate where all are empowered to thrive and make a unique contribution to academic medicine.

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Student Academic Services

Student Accessibility Center (SAC)

The Student Accessibility Center supports, serves, and empowers Loyola University Chicago students with disabilities.

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Division of Student Development

Student Activities & Greek Affairs (SAGA)

SAGA provides students with a variety of opportunities to explore their interests across a multitude of disciplines and fields.

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Division of Student Development

Students Together Are Reaching Success (STARS)

STARS is a student-to-student mentorship program providing first-year students of color and/or first-generation students with the support and resources to successfully find a home with academic, co-curricular, personal, and social rigors of college, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive into their second year.

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Division of Student Development

Undocumented Student Programs (USP)

USP is a campus wide initiative designed to foster community, build awareness on issues related to undocumented student experiences at Loyola, and bolster on-campus support for and the inclusion of undocumented students.

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Division of Student Development

Graduate, Professional, and Adult Student Life

Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Life (GPASL) is a collaborative unit building community at Loyola University Chicago’s dynamic, urban campus in the heart of Chicago. We provide and promote transformative and diverse experiences that empower students to live out our Jesuit values.

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