The University of Nebraska places a high value on its work in the area of diversity, striving to create a learning community of faculty, students and staff members with differing ethnic, cultural, gender and religious characteristics.

The Office of Diversity & Equity works with established programs on each campus to support Strategic Framework goals relating to diversity and equity. These include recruiting and retaining excellent faculty and staff, with a special emphasis on women and persons of color; increasing the percentage of persons of color and the economically disadvantaged who enroll at and graduate from the university; and minimizing the differences in assessment of climate on each campus among various groups of employees, especially women and persons of color.