Lactation and quiet rooms provide comfort and safety for students, staff and faculty

The University currently maintains nine lactation and quiet rooms both on and off campus, and the Lactation Advocacy Subcommittee works to expand access to these spaces.

Read the NSights blog about lactation and quiet rooms

Strategic Action Plan

The 2021-2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Action Plan promotes inclusive excellence with a focus on four areas:

  • Increasing enrollment, retention and graduation of underrepresented students
  • The classroom and education in democracy
  • Faculty and staff recruitment, development and retention
  • Communication, symbols and safe places
Read the full Strategic Action Plan

Pride, Resistance, & Democracy: Then & Now

We invite you to join our four outstanding panelists: YeVonne Allen, M.S., Emily K. Hobson, Ph.D., Jake Marble, MS2, and Paromita Pain, Ph.D. as they discuss Pride demonstrations and LGBTQIA2+ acts of resistance, both historically and today.

Watch the pride dialogue video

Our work

Initiatives
Our office is involved in a number of initiatives to promote diversity & inclusion on our campus, in our community and throughout the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Committees and affinity groups
Our office supports the work of the diversity, equity and inclusion committees and affinity groups in the campus community, promoting best practices and policy development.
Education and training
Our office develops workshops and trainings on diversity, equity and inclusion, including micro-aggression and implicit bias training, that are available to faculty, staff and students.

Supporting LGBTQ+

Our students, faculty and staff are what make the University of Nevada, Reno a special place. Learn more about our LGBTQ+ community, their achievements, ground breaking research, social movement efforts and more.

Nevada Pride
A group of people, including two Nevada cheerleaders and some wearing University of Nevada, shirts, stand inside of and next to giant letters "LOVE" that are painted with the LGBTQ+ rainbow of colors, red, yellow, purple, green and indigo.

Diversity and inclusion resources across the University

The Multicultural Center

The Multicultural Center provides programs and services that support the academic and social success for all students at the University of Nevada through advisement, leadership development, counseling, student organizations, outreach and intercultural programming. 

Counseling Services

The mission of Counseling Services is to provide psychological services to University of Nevada, Reno students to support and facilitate their personal and academic success and development. 

Disability Resource Center

The purpose of the Disability Resource Center (DRC) is to  ensure that students with disabilities have equal access to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from all university programs. You can learn more about the University's commitment to accessibility.

Equal Opportunity and Title IX

Legal protections against discrimination, harassment, ADA and Title IX compliance for all University members, as well as support to undocumented and DACA students, are processed through the Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX.

Student Center for Engagement

Working to engage, educate and empower undergraduate students to take action in the best interest of the student body and the University community.

Veteran Services

The Veteran Services Office is your liaison to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for veteran and veteran-related education benefits. 

More campus resources

Voices from our University community

  • A painted mural of a hand in a fist, with splotches of pink, orange, yellow and green on the hand and surrounding portion of the mural.
  • End Horace Gillom of the University of Nevada, Reno battles for a pass in a football game against St. Mary's University, at a packed Kezar Stadium.
  • A pencil sketch of a male member of the Paiute Tribe drawn on a easel

From around the campus

University of Nevada, Reno’s Cultural Diversity Committee publishes resource guide containing demographic data

Co-Chair Melissa McClinton discusses her work at the University, as well as the purpose of the committee and its resource guide

Close up of tree with white blossoming flowers. Three students walking on a sidewalk in front of a green, grass lawn. Blue sky and brown building in background.

Basque Library, Center for Basque Studies celebrate career, writing of Robert Laxalt

Two-day conference March 9 – 10 to feature local, regional, international scholars along with Basque music, dancing and improvisational poetry

Decolonizing the outdoors

Department of Gender, Race and Identity hosts events featuring Indigenous experts

Karla Hernández: New director of Hispanic/Latinx community relations

Hernández shares her background at the University and what her new position entails

Black Lives Matter

Today, this University stands in solidarity with its Black student leaders who have brought forward several action items in the “Listen to Us” platform that will make us a better institution for Black students, faculty and staff.

University's commitment to action

Land acknowledgement

 

We acknowledge that the University of Nevada, Reno is situated on the traditional homelands of the Numu (Northern Paiute), Wašiw (Washoe), Newe (Western Shoshone), and Nuwu (Southern Paiute) peoples. These lands continue to be a gathering place for Indigenous Peoples and we recognize their deep connections to these places. We extend our appreciation for the opportunity to live and learn on their territory.