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Welcome to 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.
Institute Commitment to Diversity
Events
10th Annual Diversity Symposium
The Office of the President and Institute Diversity hosted the 10th Annual Diversity Symposium on September 5, 2018. In light of this year’s theme, “Building Inclusive Communities: The Path Forward – Together,” this event explored both the progress made and the challenges that remain in the interrelated areas of academics, health and well-being, and student and community life.
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.
Georgia Tech’s Sixth Annual Black History Month Lecture, “Millennials: Owning Your Place in the 21st Century,” features Andrew Gillum, former mayor of Tallahassee, Florida. Gillum will discuss voting controversies in the 2018 election, the impact of millennials on previous elections, and their potential impact on elections in 2020.
2019 MLK Lecture
As part of Georgia Tech’s 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, the Eighth Annual Lecture featured Dr. Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut, and her discussion of King’s legacy and the journey individuals must take to change the world together and create a shared future.
2019 Focus Program
For 28 years, Georgia Tech’s Focus Program has brought high-achieving students from diverse backgrounds to campus. The annual graduate recruitment weekend is held during the observance and celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.
From January 17-20, 2019, underrepresented minority students and postdocs will attend and be exposed to various graduate degree programs offered at Georgia Tech.
