Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance

Welcome to Middle Tennessee State University’s Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (IEC). We fully embrace, value and respect the backgrounds, cultures, and identities of our students, faculty, staff, visitors and all who partner or do business with us. Our vision in IEC is to foster a culture of inclusive excellence through our diverse people, philosophies and perspectives in order to advance MTSU as a national leader who leverages diversity to achieve its goals.

IEC Goals are to:

• Ensure an institutional focus on access, diversity, equity and inclusion
• Foster a welcoming, engaging and inclusive environment through the recruitment and retention of underrepresented and underserved students, faculty and staff that reflects the diversity of Tennessee, the nation and the global community
• Provide data that informs university decision-making on access, diversity and inclusion efforts
• Assess/Monitor institutional progress on access, diversity and inclusion efforts
• Serve as a resource, advisor and liaison to campus officials, colleges, departments and committees regarding access, diversity and inclusion
• Provide oversight of federal and state laws related to discrimination and harassment (Title VI, Title IX, equal employment opportunity, affirmative action and the ADA)

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