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Inclusion and Diversity (OID)

We are a just and inclusive community that welcomes, encourages, and supports individuals who desire to contribute to and benefit from the institution’s missions of learning, discovery, and engagement.

Menah Pratt, Virginia Tech

Why InclusiveVT

InclusiveVT is the institutional and individual commitment to Ut Prosim (That I May Serve) in the spirit of community, diversity, and excellence.

Serving as a catalyst for capacity building across the institution, we promote... 

  • Sustainable institutional transformation and accountability
  • Representational diversity
  • An inclusive, welcoming, affirming, and accessible safe campus climate
  • The integration of issues of equity and identity into the academic mission

InclusiveVT Institutional Pillars


Institutionalizing structures to promote sustainable transformation
Increasing faculty, staff, and student diversity
Ensuring a welcoming, affirming, safe, and accessible campus climate
Advancing the academic, research, teaching, and service mission through inclusive excellence

2023 InclusiveVT Summit

Keynote Speaker, David Stovall from the University of Illinois at Chicago, leads discussions with respondents, Menah Pratt, Vice President for Strategic Affairs and Diversity, and President Timothy Sands.

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    As a partner with Virginia Tech’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity programming you have the opportunity to give sustainable gifts that will transform the experiences of students, indigenous and women of color in higher education to network, and impacted communities around the country.

Get to Know Menah Pratt

A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2016.