Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment

The NCUA encourages credit unions to promote diversity and inclusion as a competitive advantage for their organizations. Doing so can inform business strategies that unleash employee potential, attract talent to develop innovative solutions to leverage business opportunities, and help you identify and meet the needs of underserved markets.

To support credit unions’ efforts to promote diversity and inclusion, the NCUA designed a self-assessment material in coordination with other federal financial regulators (opens new window). The assessment helps credit unions evaluate their practices against five core standards:

1. Organization commitment to diversity and inclusion
2. Workforce profile and employment practices
3. Supplier diversity
4. Practices to promote transparency
5. Approach to self-assessment

The assessment outlines best practices in diversity and inclusion that you can use at any stage of your institution’s journey. You can download and complete the NCUA’s self-assessment form at any time to evaluate your institution’s performance. The NCUA encourages credit unions to assess their performance each year. You are not required to submit your results to the NCUA.

Key Points

• The self-assessment is not required by law; completing a self-assessment is completely voluntary.
• The self-assessment is outside of the scope of the NCUA’s examination process. The agency’s examiners do not have access to the assessment results, and your participation will not impact your CAMELS rating.

Annual Solicitation for Self-Assessments

The NCUA solicits electronic self-assessment submissions through a secure portal on an annual basis. (Credit unions can download and complete an independent self-assessment at any time and are not required to submit their results to the NCUA.) Starting October, 2022, and annually thereafter, the NCUA will send a unique CUDSA link to each credit union CEO. Credit unions will use their unique link to complete and submit a self-assessment. Credit unions can submit a CUDSA between October 1 and January 31 each year (four-month window). For questions about the self-assessment, please contact CUDiversity@NCUA.GOV.

The NCUA’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion is responsible for assessing the diversity policies and practices for the federally insured credit union system as a whole. It aggregates data provided by credit unions to identify opportunities for the NCUA to develop materials and disseminate information to help credit unions excel in supporting their diversity and inclusion practices. Access to self-assessment data provided by a credit union is restricted and is not accessible to, nor shared with, any other NCUA office.

Aggregated responses are reported in an annual Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment (CUDSA) report, and may appear in additional reports including the NCUA’s Annual Report to Congress. The NCUA will not identify any specific credit union or individual, or disclose confidential business information, without explicit written consent.

DOWNLOAD SELF-ASSESSMENT (PDF) (opens new window)

CUDSA Reports

2021 Voluntary Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment Results (opens new window)

2020 Voluntary Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment Results (opens new window)

2019 Voluntary Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment Results (opens new window)

2018 Voluntary Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment Results (opens new window)

2017 Voluntary Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment Results (opens new window)

Diversity and Inclusion Resources

Developing effective diversity and inclusion policies and practices takes time. The NCUA does not expect participating credit unions will implement every best practice described in the self-assessment. Some credit unions, especially those with more than 100 employees, can use information they obtain from conducting a self-assessment to begin or to strengthen ongoing efforts to promote diversity and inclusion.

The following resources can help inform and enhance your diversity and inclusion efforts:

• Credit Union Guide to Supplier Diversity (opens new window)
• Credit Union Supplier Diversity FAQs
• 2021 NCUA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit (opens new window) (You will be leaving NCUA.gov and accessing a non-NCUA website. We encourage you to read the NCUA's exit link policies. (opens new page).)