Vision
A culture where every member of the NYU Stern community has a sense of belonging to the institution.
NYU Stern’s Strategic Plan for Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging & Equity affirms the campus's commitment to students, faculty, and staff to provide access, opportunity, equitable and just treatment, and advancement for all.
This commitment aligns with NYU’s mission to be a top quality international center of scholarship, teaching and research.
Our goal is to transform NYU Stern into an equitable and inclusive instituion that is a thought leader in inclusion, diversity, belonging, and equity and a best in class institution with regard to faculty, staff, and student intercultural education, development and understanding.
Strategic Plan 2020-2021
Becoming a Thought Leader and Best in Class in IDBE
Understanding the current state
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Internal and external benchmarking
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Build a network of professionals in the IDBE environment
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Audit current practices, procedures, and policies with an IDBE mindset
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Learn the current culture (faculty, student, program, staff)
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Identify the needs of current and future stakeholders
Develop a baseline on where we should be as institution
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Every student should understand the concept of personal intercultural development
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Depending on the program and situation, students should be required to submit an intercultural development plan (e.g. Study Abroad programs including DBI, ISP, and full semester abroad)
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Every faculty member should be given the opportunity to understand what creating an inclusive classroom environment means
- Every senior administrator should create their own intercultural development plan
Create content, programming, and an educational approach
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Program specific
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Stakeholder specific
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Incremental and unique
Key Recommendations:
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Rethinking how we build relationships with our students
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Educate our students with an IDBE mindset
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Develop new approaches to how we hire faculty/staff and admit students
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Develop pipeline programs to increase the population of underrepresented individuals
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Create partnerships with organizations that allow us to strengthen our diversity
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Develop ways to measure success beyond the composition of our environment