Women's History Month

Dear Highlanders,

Each year in March, NJIT joins the nation in commemorating Women’s History Month while shining a spotlight on the extraordinary contributions of women to our university and our world. As a premier public polytechnic university, it is particularly important that we embrace our responsibility to cultivate future generations of women studying, researching, working in, and leading the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) as well as architecture, design, management, and the other disciplines offered at NJIT.

While women continue to be dramatically underrepresented in STEM, their perspectives are critically important. When there is a diverse representation of women working within teams, the members of those teams see a project through different lenses and their unique experiences allow them to identify complex problems that must be addressed as well as opportunities that may be seized upon. This happens by sharing ideas and information, raising questions, and developing products, solutions, and efficiencies that might not even be considered by a team lacking such diversity. 

The women of NJIT have been and will continue to be mentors and agents of change at our university and throughout the world. Some outstanding examples were recently spotlighted in the Fall 2022 issue of NJIT Magazine. I am very proud to say that women from diverse backgrounds are providing leadership in so many ways at NJIT – as members of our Board of Trustees and Board of Overseers, as members of the President’s Council, as scholars and teachers among our faculty, as staff members occupying critical positions, as alumni volunteers, and as students serving their university and their peers. These women are difference-makers at NJIT and far beyond, and we celebrate them for their contributions to our university community. It is our responsibility, however, to expand upon this success, and I am very happy to note that, for the second consecutive year, NJIT’s first-year class includes more women than ever before.

Please join me in honoring the many women who have bettered our university throughout the years, in measurable and invaluable ways, and in working toward the creation of many more opportunities for the next generation of women leaders at NJIT. In closing, I invite you to attend the annual Women Designing the Future Conference on March 31, 2023. This year, the theme will be “Artificial Intelligence/Real Human Lives: Making technology work for all of us.” For more information or to register, please visit https://WDF31.eventbrite.com. 

Sincerely,

Teik C. Lim

NJIT President