Progress Updates
We aim to create a community where all staff and faculty feel valued, supported, and connected to our shared mission. This pillar focuses on building psychological safety, encouraging open communication, and making equity a core part of IMSA’s culture. When inclusion is standard, people work better together—and everyone can contribute their best to transforming lives.
November 2025
The DEIU Leadership Team is planning a Multicultural Campus Coffee, Quarterly Lunch and Learns, and Happy Hours. In addition, they are planning and organizing the February Community Day.
The Office of DEI and Human Resources Collaborated on a Leading/Managing Inclusively Seminar on November 19, 2025.
The AI Theme Team is creating and distributing a Biweekly AI Toolkit Newsletter which showcases teachers’ approaches to share with other teachers, explores ethical complexities, offers starting-point prompts for teaching, including more culturally responsive teaching, and offers teachers direct access to readings and articles relevant to AI in their work and in the larger social, cultural, political, and educational landscape. Monthly AI Reading Group discussions focus on on book chapters and articles and offers certified teachers professional development credits/CPDUs to participate in engaged conversation about major topics in artificial intelligence in education. The AI Center and participating faculty leveraged AI-focused summer curriculum work into 8 vibrant sessions at Inspire & Ignite, covering everything from functional “how it works” sessions to panels and sessions focused on classroom practice to practical and ethical considerations of AI in work at the Academy beyond the classroom.
The Academic Team is creating a suite of experiential learning and credentials which are inherently eqitable for all students at IMSA and beyond.
