Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
African-American students, backed by members of the faculty, said they will look to the college administration for help enacting new measures that could lead to more opportunities for Black people in NJIT classrooms and beyond.
The ideas, expressed in two virtual forums this month as part of a campus reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, include creating a university task force on racism that would involve student members, forming a required class or seminar to educate new students on inclusion and actively increasing the number of Black professors.