Diversity
NNCI Statement of Diversity
The NNCI embraces diversity and welcomes, recruits, educates, employs, serves, and engages a diverse group of users, students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and talents, creating a community of teachers, learners, and researchers that exemplifies the best in all of us – in our intellectual pursuits, our diversity of thought, our personal integrity, and our commitment to excellence.
We believe that diversity includes the individual differences among people, including:
- Appearance or personal characteristics
- Gender
- Gender identity or expression
- Sexual orientation
- Marital status
- Social, racial, or ethnic backgrounds
- National origin and nationality
- Language
- Socioeconomic class
- Economic circumstances
- Religion or beliefs
- Moral and ethical values
- Philosophical outlooks
- Political affiliation and opinion
- Disabilities or handicaps
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Paternity
- Physical health, mental health, and medical history
- Genetic information
- Veteran status
- Age
- Life experiences
All of these characteristics, both singularly and in combination, contribute to the richness of the NNCI community.
This statement is inspired by the Georgia Tech Strategic Plan