NCID’s Eight Core Priority Areas
Diversity Issues in Scholarship and Multilevel Engagement
To bridge innovative scholarship in the social sciences and humanities with engaged research, education, and service activities to promote institutional diversity and social justice within a more inclusive multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society.
Campus Partners: College of Literature, Science and the Arts, and Rackham School of Graduate Studies, including the humanities, social sciences, and multidisciplinary units (African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Gender Studies, CEW, Urban Studies, Disability Studies, International Studies, etc.) as well as related campus stakeholders committed to bridging basic scholarship with more engaged research, education and service activities consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.
Diversity Issues in Education and Institutional Transformation
To bridge innovative scholarship with engaged research, education and service activities to promote the pivotal role of universities to address pressing institutional diversity challenges in higher education, PK-14 educational inequalities, and related social policy.
Campus Partners: Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, School of Education and other campus stakeholders committed to addressing pressing diversity issues in higher education as well as PK-14 pipeline, educational inequality, and related social policy issues that are consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.
Diversity Issues in Expressive Culture, the Arts, and Media
To bridge innovative scholarship with engaged research, education and service activities to address institutional diversity challenges and opportunities in expressive culture, the arts and media within a more inclusive multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society.
Campus Partners: School of Music, Art and Design, Information, and other campus stakeholders committed to addressing institutional diversity challenges and opportunities through the power of expressive culture, the arts and media consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.
Diversity Issues in Health Disparities and Human Development
To bridge innovative scholarship with engaged research, education and service activities to address institutional diversity challenges and opportunities in health equity and disparities within the context of urban poverty and related challenges within a multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society.
Campus Partners: School of Public Health, Medical School, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, School of Pharmacy, Kinesiology, and other campus stakeholders committed to addressing institutional diversity challenges and opportunities critical health disparities and equity consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.
Diversity Issues in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
To bridge innovative scholarship with engaged research, teaching and service activities to address institutional diversity challenges and opportunities in the natural sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics within a more inclusive multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society.
Campus Partners: College of Engineering, School of Information, ADVANCE, the natural sciences, and other campus stakeholders committed to addressing STEM issues that are consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.
Diversity, Urban Revitalization, and Community Development
To bridge innovative scholarship with engaged research, education and service activities to address institutional diversity challenges and opportunities in urban revitalization, family poverty, and community development within a more inclusive multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society.
Campus Partners: School of Social Work, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and other campus stakeholders committed to addressing critical urban poverty, family well-being, and community development issues that are consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.
Diversity Issues in Business, Organizations, and Sustainable Development
To bridge innovative scholarship with engaged research, teaching and service activities to address institutional diversity challenges and opportunities in business strategy, economic development, and sustainability efforts within a more inclusive multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society.
Campus Partners: The Business School, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, and other campus stakeholders committed to addressing organizational and environmental issues that are consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.
Diversity Issues in Politics, Public Policy, and Social Justice
To bridge innovative scholarship with engaged research, education and service activities to address institutional diversity challenges and opportunities in critical legal, governmental, and public policy debates within a more inclusive multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society.
Campus Partners: Law School, School of Public Policy, and other campus stakeholders committed to addressing legal, governmental, and public policy issues that are consistent with the NCID mission, goals and objectives.