Welcome to "Inventing Our Future," MIT’s diversity and inclusion website.

The purpose of this site is to engage the MIT community in dialogue and action which promotes an increasingly inclusive community. This site will grow as faculty, students, staff and alums add resources, share stories and engage in dialogue. Discuss, Share, Act!

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Diversity Timeline Project

A broad definition of diversity requires a broad look at MIT’s diversity history. To ensure that we adequately represent the depth and breadth of the MIT community, we are undertaking a diversity history project. As a first step in this project, supported by a Graduate Community Fellowship through the Office of the Dean of Graduate Education, we have begun to compile information about diverse constituency groups. The documents linked below are the beginning of this project. They are DRAFT timelines meant to highlight documented milestones and significant events. They are not intended to imply any particular interpretation of these events, but rather to create broader awareness of MIT’s rich history. 

Timelines drafted to date:

 
To ensure this is a comprehensive process, you are invited to submit links and/or documents that you believe are significant. Please do so by completing the Share A Resource form.