We are working to facilitate a respectful campus environment that ensures access and opportunity for all students, faculty, and staff throughout their Iowa experience.

Providing access to high-impact opportunities is essential to the University of Iowa’s mission and plays a key role in each of the strategic priority areas, with attention to the myriad ways that access is foundational to excellence in teaching, research, and service. 

The university is dedicated to transparency, communication, collaboration, and accountability as it seeks to provide a welcoming and respectful environment in which individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences have a sense of belonging and the ability to achieve their potential.

Measuring Our Progress

The university has set specific targets or high-level indicators to monitor our institutional progress, which we will regularly measure and assess to track our improvements in these areas. The university has made significant progress closing attainment gaps, with first-year retention gains foreshadowing continued success in the coming years.