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Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 17, 2016
Annette Filliat
Communications Manager
Institute Diversity
Georgia Tech is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top schools for awarding bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in STEM fields to African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans.
- Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
Georgia Tech awards more undergraduate engineering degrees to women than any other school.
- American Society for Engineering Education
Summary Sentence:
This month, the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion launches to provide more programs and pathways to success for underrepresented students on campus.
Full Summary:
This month, the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion launches to provide more programs and pathways to success for underrepresented students on campus.
The Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion Launches in the Renovated Chapin Building
A Look Inside the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion
One of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion Units: OHI
One of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion Units: OMED
One of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion Units: WSTIn an effort to strengthen the services that support the success of underrepresented minority and women students at Georgia Tech, a new center will both centralize current programs and expand its reach with new ones.
This month, the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion launches to provide more programs and pathways to success for underrepresented students on campus. As part of Institute Diversity, the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion encourages students to excel academically, interact across cultures and perspectives, and value inclusion.
The purpose of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion is to serve students from all backgrounds and encourage them to be inventive leaders who think globally. The Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion will be a positive, enriching environment, connecting students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community stakeholders through effective programs, projects, networks, and research.
S. Gordon Moore Jr., executive director, student diversity and inclusion, serves as the director of the new Center.
“One of the findings from Georgia Tech’s Climate Assessment Survey expressed feelings of marginalization by gender, race, and ethnicity among undergraduate and graduate students,” said Moore. “By launching the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion, we will better serve the more than 4,000 students who benefit from our programs now—and increase capacity to serve even more current and future students.”
Focusing on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of underrepresented minority and women students, the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion houses the following units:
In the year ahead, the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion will offer an Outreach Initiative to assist Georgia Tech in discovering and developing its future pool of talented and diverse students.
“I am excited to see how the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion can create synergy among units in sharing resources, insights, and connections to help increase the diversity of our student population,” said Auston Kennedy, undergraduate student, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering.
Two open houses will be held at the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion: August 22-24 for the campus community and October 29 for alumni. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community stakeholders are encouraged to visit the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion (681 Cherry Street NW) to take a tour of the renovated Chapin Building, learn more about its units and initiatives, and meet its talented staff.
To serve more current and future students, the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion also welcomes partnerships with foundations and donors. Learn more at www.csdi.gatech.edu.
