Company Profile

Company Overview

The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) represents a strategic commitment by the University of Michigan to address complex diversity issues within higher education and other major social
institutions. The Center is inspired by the vision of higher education’s critical role in promoting knowledge, justice, and opportunity in a diverse democracy and global economy. NCID aims to prepare
people for active engagement in a diverse society and works toward building productive as well as inclusive communities at U-M and beyond.

The Center promotes national exemplars of diversity scholarship, multilevel engagement, and innovation by operating as a catalyst, venture fund, incubator, clearinghouse, publisher, and think tank. Strategic NCID partnerships bridge scholarship with social change through engagement at the campus/institutional, local/state, and national/international levels. Core priorities and activities focus on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the broadest, richest sense — including considerations of race, ethnicity, gender, class, geography, age, culture, and viewpoints.