Self-paced Learning for Awareness & Exploration
Designed for flexible engagement to guide independent learning and exploration at your own pace across a variety of educational formats.
Building Inclusive Community
Learn
We are committed to providing creative ways for students, staff, and faculty to learn from one another, engage deeply to develop understanding across differences, and grow as a result.
Interactive Skill Building
Designed for participants who are seeking active engagement and practical skills to apply in their daily lives.
Sustained Engagement & Applied Practice
Designed for sustained engagement through cohort-based learning and/or intensive development for applied practice, which equips participants to serve as co-facilitators, e.g., Bridging the Gap Fellows.
Respect Faith Practices
In a diverse community with a myriad of faith practices and religious traditions, building an inclusive environment requires: 1) choosing curiosity about unfamiliar religious traditions, 2) actively combating bias and stereotypes connected to religion, and 3) honoring the choices of individuals to engage in faith practices.
Bridging the Gap 2025 Fellows
We are partnering with Interfaith America to train a cohort of faculty and staff to be Bridging the Gap fellows. In fall 2025, they will work with the broader university community to increase our collective capacity to:
- Respect diverse identities and recognize that differences can enhance our experience in the Rutgers community.
- Engage from a place of curiosity, not judgment.
- Believe that we are enhanced by listening carefully to those we disagree with.
- Foster mutual dignity by seeking understanding.
- Agree that we can fundamentally disagree with someone and still honor their dignity and our shared humanity.
Small, but Significant Ideas
Ideas that Ignite Change are short reflection pieces written by Anna Branch, Senior Vice President for Equity, sharing practices to enable us to build and sustain our community instead of coexisting in hostile proximity.
Each idea includes resources from short articles to books and videos to put the idea into practice.
The alternative is to shut down and retreat to our ideological corners. Resist that urge and stay engaged.
Start small, read and reflect on the ideas. When the opportunity presents itself, and it will, try one out.
Investing in Our Faculty
The Faculty Diversity Collaborative intentionally bridges across four CLUs, leveraging the scale and size of Rutgers to:
- Provide individualized and targeted supports along the faculty life cycle
- Expand cross-campus networking, mentoring, & community building opportunities to reduce isolation
- Support culturally responsive mentoring
- Increase effectiveness at navigating identity-related challenges in leadership roles
From longitudinal cohort-based programs to drop-in skill-building workshops, everyone can benefit from cross-campus networking to combat isolation, develop skills to support inclusive mentoring, and engage in the community-building opportunities offered by the Faculty Diversity Collaborative (FDC).
IDEA Innovation Grant Program
The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA) Innovation Grants Program is a university-wide initiative that demonstrates how we can join together as a community to support institutional change. Grant deadlines vary by Chancellor-led unit.
Highest consideration will be given to projects that:
- Involve collaboration (across units, communities, and/or by faculty/staff/learner/unit makeup)
- Promote cross-campus, intergroup, and partnership approaches to support community-building.
- Have the potential for a significant impact (e.g., sustainable, replicable, and/or far-reaching)
- Include outcomes that are impactful, meaningful, clearly outlined, and measurable.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | The Rutgers Club, Piscataway
Tuesday, December 02, 2025, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Virtual
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University Diversity News
One Rutgers, Four Parts
Rutgers–New Brunswick
"Recognizing diversity, fostering inclusion, and working towards common core values have become more urgent than ever ... As globalization renders our society increasingly multicultural, the answer lies in thinking more, not less, about the common bonds, public resources, and civic systems that bind us together as a nation, lest the very diversity we celebrate divides us." —Task Force on Inclusion and Community Values, Rutgers University–New Brunswick Strategic Plan
Rutgers–Newark
"For Rutgers University–Newark, excellence lies at the intersection of commitments to boundary-crossing scholarship, diverse talent cultivation, and engagement as an anchor institution in the world through collaboration—all of which are precisely what the public increasingly is demanding of higher education in the 21st century.” —Rutgers University–Newark Strategic Plan
Rutgers–Camden
"The Office of Diversity and Inclusion endeavors to make Rutgers–Camden, a leading research institution, a pillar for supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion in all activities, with a particular focus on educating students who will use this knowledge and experience to contribute to a more inclusive society." —Rutgers University–Camden Office of Diversity and Inclusion Vision Statement
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)
"We are committed to becoming an inclusive learning community that fosters respect, belonging, and value for all with zero tolerance for bias, racism, and other negative ‘isms’... We support community engagement and connections with our local, national, and global communities to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion and eliminate health disparities." —RBHS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement