It is the fundamental aspiration of the College of Design to secure a diverse design community that enhances the education experience of its students. Gradually over the past decade, the college has matured into a community diverse in culture, race, gender, and personal interests. More remains to be accomplished. The College has expanded student recruitment activities that target the goal of increased diversity.
Our belief: that the creative energy of the College will be enlivened by our differences.
Diversity is an inclusive community of people with varied human characteristics, ideas, and world-views and whose interactions both benefit and challenge each other to grow while making the community better.
Such a community will:
By definition, NC State reflects diversity because it comprises a community of individuals from varied backgrounds and demographic categories; it encourages, accepts, and values a diversity of people and ideas; it seeks to promote an environment where equity, respect and understanding represent the norm in the campus climate and; it seeks to prepare entrepreneurs who are effective citizens of a global community. We will know that we have achieved authentic diversity when all four of these objectives are fully realized.
For more information about diversity at NC State visit: http://www.ncsu.edu/diversity/