Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

As part of our 2024 DEI commitment plan, which you can see by pressing the orange button on the left, we promised to publicly publish what we have done working towards our goals. Here we will continue to post what we have done as a community to work toward making a better Greek life community here at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.

Spring Semester

  • In this semester’s sessions of Meet in the Middle, we had about a quarter of all the participants from a variety of IFC chapters.

Fall Semester

  • For this fall recruitment we partnered with Smokey’s Closet, a campus organization that allows students access to lightly used donated professional clothing at no cost. This allowed potential new-members going through the recruitment process access to traditional recruitment attire at no cost to them.
  • For our 150 years of Greek life at the University of Tennessee IFC decided to sponsor two scholarships for the men in our community. These scholarship can go towards chapter dues, tuition, or any cost associated with school. One is leadership based and one is needs based.

Earning SOFE points in DEI areas:

Education

1. Sending members to cross council exchange

This is an event that happens once a semester, where all chapters across all 4 councils send their members to learn about the others. Depending on your chapter size, the amount of people you send to this can earn SOFE points.

2. Chapter Programing – DEI program

This can be any type of programing that your chapter decides to put on that can fall into DEI education. It can be led up someone in the chapter, an advisor, someone from the DEIC, etc., but the topic is up to the chapter and the person giving the presentation. This type of program an earn a chapter SOFE points.

Excellence

3. Additional Programming – University Sponsored DEI Program

This type of programming needs to be connected with an office on campus. It can be through the Pride Center, MSL, or any other office that offers a type of programming that can fall within DEI programming. The topic is up to the chapter to choose in collaboration with the university partner, but this can earn a chapter SOFE points.

Charles Youree

Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion