“Over the last year, we used a lot of the questions on the HEED Award application to help inform our new campus dashboards, making diversity data a lot more accessible. The HEED Award is a unique national award and is a point of campus pride, especially when using the logo for recruiting new students, staff, and faculty.”
California State University San Marcos
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“We always appreciate seeing what new information [INSIGHT] asks for each year. It helps us to talk about where we should be going if we want to remain a leader in diversity and inclusion. We also appreciate that INSIGHT looks at campuses across the nation.”
California State University, Northridge
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“The HEED Award is a way to benchmark with other great universities that are Diversity Champions and raises the bar for inclusive excellence. This is a great opportunity for higher education.”
Clemson University
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“The HEED Award has established itself as the standard and benchmark for diversity-related programming in higher education. The application provides a great opportunity for us to benchmark our progress as we continue to pursue excellence in everything that we do. It is also an honor to be counted among those institutions that are setting the standard in diversity, equity, and inclusion programming and research in higher education.”
Georgia Institute of Technology
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“We have received the HEED Award for four years now, but rather than allowing this recognition to invite complacency, we use the award to set the bar higher, to surpass what we have done before, hold ourselves accountable, and to take a hard look at where we have come from and how far we have moved the needle. We appreciate this self-examination as a valuable tool in assessing our progress.”
Greenville Technical College
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“By continuing to apply for this award year after year, we are able to use the collected data to create new initiatives across the university based on the benchmarks and standards provided in the award criteria. This allows us to maintain a focus on continuous improvement and allows our institution to be accountable for the work that still needs to be done to improve our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging priorities.”
Kent State University
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“The HEED Award provides a competitive advantage for Oklahoma State University in attracting a broad array of students, faculty, and staff from across the nation, particularly those from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds.”
Oklahoma State University
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“INSIGHT Into Diversity’s leadership team is the only organization that provides ongoing support for top CDOs during the year for their work in diversity and inclusion.”
Ohio University
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“Applying for the HEED Award is an excellent way to end the academic year because it provides you with the opportunity to see if you did what you said you were going to do in regard to DEI on your campus. This award helps us to see if we are moving the needle. It also helps us to be reflective and determine what we need to be thinking about for next year.”
Swarthmore College
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“We are so grateful for the HEED Award application and how it has guided us in leading our institution to be more diverse and inclusive. Each year the application stretches us and creates more dialogue on how we might improve and be a campus for all people. We have seen our campus diversity enrollment grow as a result of applying for and receiving the HEED Award.”
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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“Applying for the HEED Award opens one’s eyes to a host of items colleges should be considering in order to address the inequities on campus. Most of the questions allow colleges to reflect on what they are doing well, but also visualize what they need to consider for their future in order to enhance their diversity efforts. The exercise of gathering data opens up the opportunity for dialogue on the need of having the data, the importance of the data’s outcome, and continued conversations with many departments about the strengths and challenges the assessment of the data offers. The opportunities that are offered by INSIGHT that are exclusive to those who have received the HEED Award in the past are crucial for CDOs’ personal and professional growth in this field of diversity, equity, and inclusion. CDOs also recognize INSIGHT Into Diversity as a leader and supporter of the good work, the hard work that it takes to have institutions of higher education move the needle in DEI on campus.”
Union College, New York
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“We appreciate how the application evolves in ways that guide and inspire thinking about diversity.”
University of Houston–Downtown
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“We have now had alumni contacting us about the HEED Award and wondering how they can get more involved in supporting diversity and inclusion programs on our campus.”
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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