New Jersey Institute of Technology

On February 18, 2021, it was announced that NJIT is launching the Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council in order to “advise, counsel and support NJIT’s drive to increase its percentage of Hispanic and Latinx undergraduates from 20% to 25% by 2025 and thereby qualify to earn the federal designation of being Hispanic-serving.”

On June 29, 2023, NJIT's president issued a statement in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action which reads in part as follows: "Though NJIT should not be affected, because our admissions process is of a holistic nature and predominantly focused on assessing a student’s ability to succeed at our university, the court’s decision presents a broader concern. While race should never be used as a condition to preclude anyone from opportunities, institutions of higher education must seek to construct learning environments that provide maximum benefit to their students. Diversity of all types–racial, gender, cultural, socio-economic, religious, etc.–is essential for the optimization of the educational experience and is something we value deeply at NJIT."

NJIT's 2025 Strategic Plan states, "we will redouble our efforts to enroll women and underrepresented minority students...."

NJIT’s Innovation Institute has a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Certificate program which offers training on DEI topics. The program “provides key fundamentals to transform your organization’s workplace culture into an inclusive environment where everyone thrives.”

NJIT offers Interactive Diversity Activities including programs and workshops.

NJIT launched a program for “leadership and bias-mitigation training” in 2021. This was “a component of the NSF-funded NJECC that aims to broaden participation in cybersecurity through leadership training for cybersecurity students and data-driven, bias-mitigation training for students and faculty at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing.”

The "Diversity leadership training for students" program is a "series of interactive workshops...in which a DEIB trainer helps students, particularly underrepresented minorities and women, develop the soft skills needed to thrive and advance in the workplace."

NJIT's 2025 Strategic Plan states that it would "[c]reate and train an institutional Diversity Committee and require the presentation of search committee plans to the deans and new Diversity Committee."

NJIT outlines its bias reporting protocols and states the following: "A bias incident can be defined as an act(s) committed against a person that is motivated by bias or prejudice. Bias incidents can be in the form of verbal, written, physical, or psychological acts or behaviors that threaten or harm a person or group on the basis of actual or perceived race, religion, color...."

The Technology, Gender, and Diversity Minor at NJIT is "designed to enable students to expand their understanding of how society shapes technology and how gender, race, and ethnicity shape society."

The New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective at NJIT is "[f]unded by a $1.24 million grant from the National Science Foundation" and "aims to identify and eliminate systematic barriers for women and underrepresented minorities and increase the diversity of academic researchers in STEM who participate in the state’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem."

NJIT's 2025 Strategic Plan states that it would "[d]evelop a Diverse Faculty Fellow Program to provide fellowships for underrepresented minority group members who wish to gain valuable teaching and research experience."

On November 14, 2022, New Jersey Institute of Technology announced that it appointed its first chief diversity officer as David E. Jones.

NJIT offers several Diversity & Inclusion organizations and “identity-based organizations” for students.

NJIT has a page dedicated to Diversity & Inclusion Resources, including “affinity-based resources” and other related resources.

On March 8, 2023, NJIT held the 2023 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging University Forum on the topic of “Advancing a Culture of Inclusion and Belonging at NJIT.”

The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering offers DEI resources in support of its goals to “advocate for institutional change towards a more inclusive environment for all” and “raise awareness about inequalities/injustices faced by the University community” among other goals.

As part of the NJIT Strategic Plan of 2025, the school will “create and train an institutional Diversity Committee and require the presentation of search committee plans to the deans and new Diversity Committee.”

DEI is among the Office of the Provosts “Priorities and Initiatives.” NJIT is dedicated towards its goal to “create a welcoming and inclusive campus environment.”