In his annual address to the university community, President Richard L. McCormick declared, "Rutgers has a call to diversity. New Jersey claims the widest array of nationalities, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds. So should its state university, both for reasons of social justice and for the educational value that diversity brings. ... We need to diversify our faculty, our senior leadership, and our curriculum across all three campuses. And we will hold the deans, provosts, and vice presidents accountable for real progress."
The Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity (OIDE) was created by President McCormick to help meet the challenge to maintain the wonderful diversity of Rutgers' student body and to increase that of its faculty and senior leadership. While much diversity work is going on at Rutgers, until now there has not been one centralized information source to highlight that activity. OIDE will serve as a clearinghouse to promote and coordinate diversity and equity initiatives, programs, and research on all three Rutgers campuses in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden. We hope that you will visit the site often, send us your comments and suggestions, and join with us in celebrating and enhancing diversity and equity at Rutgers.
Dr. Karen R. Stubaus
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Director, Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity
Contact us at: diversity@rutgers.edu
Featured Links
- Report from The National Academies: "Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty"
- Rutgers University Leaders in Diversity
Essay by Richard L. McCormick, President
as published in March/April 2009 issue of
DiversityInc Magazine
