Diversity is a 36 percent increase in African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native American student enrollment over the past seven years. Diversity is a grant program with the GE Foundation to support women and members of underrepresented groups as Ph.D. candidates in the sciences and another to bring more women into engineering. Diversity is the highly successful Coming Back Together reunions and the Our Time Has Come scholarship program, geared to African American and Latino alumni and current students. Diversity is an international student enrollment of 1,374 people who represent 84 countries around the world. Diversity is served by specialized student assistance programs for people with physical, sensory and learning disabilities, programs that tailor services to specific individuals.
Diversity is open forums where ideas, often highly controversial ideas, can be freely discussed.
Diversity is a commitment to being a place where no person's thoughts are deemed inappropriate for expression, where speakers from Louis Farrakhan to Ed Koch are invited to our campus and if not welcomed by all, not silenced by anyone. Diversity in all forms is essential for our students' growth and awareness. Diversity on campus reflects the world they will join on graduation, a work world one third of which will be members of previously underrepresented ethnic populations by the year 2000. Innovation is the US Department of Education grant enabling Syracuse to support cooperative education programs in 18 disciplines here and at Utica College. Innovation is a nationally recognized program in information studies to prepare professionals for the information age.