NYU’s Office of Global Diversity and Inclusion emphasizes the importance of creating a university-wide culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Their efforts include providing consultations, resources, and innovative strategies for students, faculty, and staff; to help achieve the university's goal of creating an inclusive and equitable community.
The NYU College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and other University-Wide organizations provide a compiled list of resources for the NYU community to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts.
NYU BeTogether is an initiative created by OGI to implement action steps toward addressing NYU’s climate by focusing on DEI issues and disparities, enhancing learning and research development opportunities, utilizing our current knowledge to address disparate impact on specific communities, and also establish a path toward equitable access to address the legacy of inequalities and couple that with practices that foster inclusive communities both locally and globally.
NYU’s Center for Multicultural Education Programs (CMEP) provides a variety of educational programming, social events, and resources to support students of color, marginalized, and underrepresented students throughout NYU’s global network.
NYU’s LGBTQ+ Center provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni by creating a supportive environment to help people understand and engage with the LGBTQ+ communities through programming, events, learning and development workshops, providing support, free consultations, and sharing resources to NYU’s global network.
The NYU Academic Achievement Program is designed to support Black, Latine, Native American, and other underrepresented groups in the College of Arts and Sciences by providing them support to develop and enhance their leadership skills in the greater NYU community.
The NYU Diversity Undergraduate Research Incubator is a summer internship opportunity for underrepresented or undergraduates from underserved populations in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Growing up in Science is a global set of conversations about the personal narratives of scientists. A series of talks were organized by the NYU Neuroscience & Psychology Professor Wei Ji Ma.
NYU is committed to building a campus culture that emphasizes diversity and inclusion within its community, and it is therefore committed to accurately sharing it’s most recent facts and figures. The data is collected by the Office of Institutional Research and Program Evaluation, which offers up-to-date breakdowns of NYU’s community by race, ethnicity, and sex.
NYU offers students and faculty a wide range of identity-based groups, programming, and networks for both students and Faculty to enjoy, those of which include: LGBTQ+ groups, Multicultural fraternities and Sororities, Cultural Groups and Organizations, Religious and Faith-based Groups/Organizations, and many more!
The Diverse Neuroscientists Doctoral Training Series (DeNDriTeS) by the NYU Langone Neuroscience Institute provides diverse neuroscience graduate students with mentorship, career planning, and skill training and development to prepare them for their future careers
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers a peer-to-peer cross-discipline Mentorship program for Master’s and Ph.D. students at NYU, with the objective of providing students with the opportunity to receive personal and professional development while simultaneously forming a relationship with a mentor/mentee. The program is available to GSAS students seeking mentorship or interested in mentoring another student within or outside of their own discipline/department.
NYU Domestic Exchange Program is a program which allows NYU students to study away at five Historically Black Colleges (HBCU) and Hispanic Serving Institutions(HSI). The program provides students with the opportunity to make personal and professional connections, have access to faculty in their field of interest, expand their network of diversified experiences in the South or Caribbean, and develop an academic repertoire in a unique cultural context.
The NYU FOCUS Mentorship Program was designed to provide first-year undergraduates, who identify as first-generation college students of color, the opportunity to establish mentor relationships and gain access to resources provided by members of NYU’s Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Graduate networks.
