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Welcome to Georgia Tech's Institute Diversity
We aspire to be an Institute that pursues excellence and embraces and leverages diversity in all of its forms. “In the years ahead, we must continue to enhance a culture of collegiality, close collaboration, global perspective, intercultural sensitivity and respect and thoughtful interaction among a community of scholars that includes all of our students, faculty, and staff.”
—Georgia Tech Strategic Plan
Institute Diversity provides leadership to establish priorities, policies, and programs that support our mission as a leading technological university in the 21st century.
Institute Diversity works with the executive leadership team of the Institute to ensure that we recruit, develop, retain, and engage a diverse cadre of students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and talents who will contribute to our mission and vision.
Institute Diversity also works with campus leaders to ensure that our core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded in equal opportunity and non-discrimination practices. A strong partnership with the Offices of Human Resources, Legal Affairs, and the Division of Student Affairs ensures our compliance with all federal and state laws regarding Equal Opportunity, Title IX, and The Americans with Disabilities Act.
Institute Diversity oversees the six professors of Georgia Tech's ADVANCE Program, which work to enhance gender diversity in the faculty, and Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST), co-directed by three faculty members. WST links the study of science and technology to those of gender, culture, and society, connecting faculty and students in research partnerships. Institute Diversity is also addressing issues of student diversity and inclusion. Currently, two units, OMED: Education Services and Office of Hispanic Initiatives, address academic transitions and success, retention, and graduation for women and historically underserved and underrepresented populations.
Georgia Tech’s global and diverse community is a microcosm of the city of Atlanta, a thriving metropolis with more than five million residents. Serving as the headquarters for 10 Fortune 500 companies, Atlanta is a modern, international city full of opportunity. People from all over the world are proud to call Atlanta, and Georgia Tech, home.
News
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Sybrina Atwaters Named Director of OMED: Educational Services
The three-time Georgia Tech graduate brings more than a decade of STEM diversity research experience to her new role.
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OMED: Educational Services Welcomes Largest Challenge Program Cohort in 39 Years to Campus
The 2019 Challenge program hosted 140 incoming first-year Georgia Tech students this summer, representing the largest -- and most diverse -- cohort in the program’s 39-year history.
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Implicit Bias Workshops Return for Faculty Fall Semester
Institute Diversity and Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE Program, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development, are offering four Implicit Bias Workshops to faculty this fall.
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Registration Now Open for 11th Annual Diversity Symposium
The first African American students and graduate will be recognized at the Diversity Symposium on September 4, 2019.
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New Georgia Tech Study Examines Diversity, Social Mistrust
The study found that social capital increased in counties where one ethnicity dominates, but declined in communities with higher rates of diversity.
Events
2019 Challenge Program
OMED: Educational Services’ 2019 Challenge program hosted 140 incoming first-year Georgia Tech students this summer, representing the largest -- and most diverse -- cohort in the program’s 39-year history.
2019 Lavender Graduation and Awards
On the evening of April 11, Wardlaw’s Gordy Room was filled to capacity as the Georgia Tech community celebrated its eighth annual Lavender Graduation and fifth annual Lavender Awards. The event has been growing steadily over the years, and organizers and attendees couldn’t be happier about that.
2019 Tower Awards
The Tower Awards celebrated its 25th year in 2019. Hosted by OMED: Educational Services, the annual ceremony celebrates the academic achievements of traditionally underrepresented students at Georgia Tech.
2019 Black History Month Lecture
In recent years, millennials have increased their political engagement. Today, they make up one of the largest voting blocs in the nation. When the 116th Congress convened for the first time in January 2019, more than two dozen were millennials, up from six in 2018.
