Equity & Innovation Minor

Connect your career goals with your desire to live in a more just society. Focusing on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) from a range of perspectives, you will learn how to bring technology into the mission of bridging divisions and eliminating barriers.

Why Minor in Equity and Innovation?

Independent evaluations consistently rank New York Tech as one of the most diverse U.S. universities, with strong support for social mobility. That puts you in the perfect place to meld DEIB issues with your scholarship and your profession after graduation. Partnering with the Office of Student Engagement and Development, you’ll explore programming, experiential learning, and leadership opportunities through a pathway of synthesizing, reflecting, and documenting your individual growth.  

Through this minor program, you will: 

• Build connections between your major and the DEIB issues that matter to you. 
• Demonstrate active engagement with diverse perspectives related to identities and communities that historically have been marginalized. 
• Analyze cultural, institutional, and/or systemic barriers to equity, justice, and/or inclusion. 
• Assess the role of technology and innovation in addressing inequity within your major. 
• Synthesize knowledge of DEIB issues from various disciplines of humanistic inquiry. 
• Create an individualized plan as an aspiring professional for connecting DEIB issues with technological advances or other areas of innovation within your major. 
• Develop a public voice to communicate research findings related to DEIB, innovation, and intersections with your major.