Hispanic Heritage Month

NJIT Community Members,

We are proud to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins today and concludes on October 15, 2021. Diversity is among our university’s greatest strengths, as it is a key component of learning and innovation. Sharing varied backgrounds, cultures, life experiences, and perspectives informs our thinking and yields improved results.

It is, therefore, important that we celebrate diversity and embrace our responsibility to attract and support significantly more underrepresented minority students to our university and to make certain that there are pathways for them to assume positions of leadership across the STEM disciplines. We are incredibly proud of the success NJIT has realized in this regard. More than 60% of the Black and Hispanic engineers graduating from New Jersey public universities come from NJIT. Diversity in Action Magazine ranked NJIT as one of the country’s Top Institutions of Higher Learning Dedicated to STEM Diversity, and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education named NJIT a top 100 producer of minority STEM graduates based on bachelor’s degrees awarded to minority students in engineering technologies and architecture. However, there remains much more to be done on this front.

Please join me in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and continuing to make respect for diversity a hallmark of the NJIT community.

Sincerely,

NJIT President Joel S. Bloom