Division of Strategic Initiatives and Community Relations

The Division of Strategic Initiatives and Community Relations, which includes the Office of Strategic Initiatives, the Office of Connectedness and Belonging, the Office of Community Relations, and the Title IX Office, is committed to fostering a vibrant, welcoming, and transformative environment that encourages engagement, drives effectiveness, upholds excellence, and contributes to a better world.

• Strategic Initiatives
  • The Office of Strategic Initiatives promotes inclusive better together practices through collaborating and partnering with Lamar University students, staff, faculty, and the surrounding community by facilitating trainings, assisting with experiential learning, community service, and hosting awareness and national holiday programs that impact worldwide change.
• Connectedness and Belonging
  • The Connectedness and Belonging Office aims to cultivate a thriving community that embodies the interconnected values of excellence, success, engagement, and effectiveness intricately woven into the fabric of belonging.  
• Community Relations
  
  • The Office of Community Relations objective is to bring people, ideas, and resources together to affect positive changes in our community as we reimagine them as vibrant, growing, and dynamic communities in which to live, work, and play.
• Title IX
  

  • The Title IX Office is committed to creating and maintaining educational communities where each individual is respected, appreciated, and valued.

  • Our focus on tolerance, openness, and respect is key in providing every member of our community with basic human dignity free from harassment, exploitation, intimidation, or other sexual misconduct.

  • Our focus on tolerance, openness, and respect is key in providing every member of our community with basic human dignity free from harassment, exploitation, intimidation or other sexual misconduct.