Welcome to the Diversity Lecture Series!

As an important element in the President’s Diversity Plan, the university will host an annual Diversity Lecture Series. The purpose of the Diversity Lecture Series is to:

• Invite and engage visiting lecturers who will share what has been most effective in helping institutions (education, business, social, civic, professional) to create an atmosphere and a culture that admits or hires people of diverse backgrounds and accepts and welcomes their presence and participation;
• Provide the University community with an opportunity to meet, engage and dialogue with extraordinary and esteemed international, national and regional leaders and eminent scholars who elevate culture, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, disability, sexuality and dimensions of diversity so that, as a community, we continually explore the importance of social justice and inclusion as inherent to our vision and mission as a Catholic and Marianist institution.
• Offer the greater Dayton community an opportunity to enhance mutual understanding and to build mutually beneficial relationships for the improvement of individuals, our campus and society as a whole.
• Provide a forum for faculty/staff and students to engage in supplemental academic programming to deepen their knowledge and awareness of issues and opportunities for change in our global society.

The Diversity Lecture Series is sponsored by the offices of the President and Provost in collaboration with a number of campus departments, corporate partners including, the Dayton Daily News, WHIO-TV and WDAO 1210 AM.