# Office for Institutional Equity and Access *Equity office at St. Cloud State* The **Office for Institutional Equity and Access** is an office of [[St. Cloud State]] that publishes the institution's [[Diversity Plan]], a document dated 2012.[^1] A research record compiled fourteen years after that date located no refreshed plan replacing it.[^1] The record sets the 2012 plan beside a January 2025 presidential action titled *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*.[^2] The record does not establish four points:[^1] - how that action applies to the office; - whether a refreshed plan exists but was not located; - why the 2012 plan was not replaced; - what the plan itself states. ## Who St. Cloud State maintains the office.[^1] The record does not identify the office's director, its staff, or its reporting line. ## What The record describes the office as the publisher of the institution's Diversity Plan.[^1] It documents no other function, statutory basis, or budget for the office. ## When The Diversity Plan published by the office is dated 2012.[^1] As of the research record, fourteen years later, no refreshed plan replacing it had been located.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The office appears in one at-issue item, AI-Stearns-077, in the Stearns package. The item is filed under the section *The Jurisdiction Gap & the Unrecorded Record Edition*.[^1] The item rests on two sources, a record and a site, both on the stcloudstate.edu domain. Its subject is the 2012 Diversity Plan and the absence of a located replacement.[^1] Its federal anchor is the January 2025 presidential action *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record AI-Stearns-077 (Stearns package), drawing on the research file *RESEARCH_NewMinnesotans_SCSU.md*, ¶63 and ¶65 (two sources, stcloudstate.edu). This record establishes three things: that St. Cloud State maintains the office, that the office publishes a Diversity Plan dated 2012, and that no located refreshed plan replaces it. No URL for the underlying stcloudstate.edu documents is in the pack. [^2]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (January 2025). This source establishes the title and date of the presidential action used as the at-issue record's federal anchor. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/