The NDSU Equity & Diversity Center is committed to facilitating an inclusive environment where individuals of diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations are respected. We value all identities while challenging the varied forms of oppression and discrimination. We celebrate our shared human experiences while affirming and enriching the dignity of diversity.

The Equity & Diversity Center serves as a safe and inviting gathering space as well as an empowering resource, cultivating a nuturing, accepting campus climate by coordinating educational and social activities, programming, and development opportunities. It is our mission to advocate for social justice among traditionally under-represented groups while establishing a sense of community on campus and in the Fargo-Moorhead area.

We offer a variety of campus-wide programs that explore and celebrate diversity and social justice. A few of the programs that we will be offering during the year are:

• Exploring the Traditions of Jewish Holidays - September 16
• Take Back the Night March (with Women's & Gender Studies) - September 29
• NDSU Coming Out Week (with Ten Percent Society & NDSU Pride Network) - October 11-16
• Transgender Day of Remembrance (with Ten Percent Society & NDSU Pride Network) - November (tba)

• Safe Zone Ally Program
• Diversity training workshops - topics include: sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, disability, race/ethnicity, men & masculinity, etc.
• Sexual assault and dating violence education and prevention activities