The 2022 Homecoming festivities at New Jersey Institute of Technology welcomed students, parents and alumni to an event-packed weekend that featured music, food, culture and plenty of Highlander spirit.

Homecoming kicked off Oct. 6 with a concert by Kenny Beats at the Wellness and Events Center. On Saturday Oct.8, the festivities included a BBQ and beer garden, carnival, a magic show by Mark Zacharia, a Hispanic Heritage Celebration that included a mariachi performance and closed with the men’s soccer team hosting New Hampshire. 

New Jersey Institute of Technology is intensifying its efforts to deepen diversity and ensure equity, inclusion and belonging across the entire campus. Through pre-college programs that create admission pipelines for the underrepresented, or staff initiatives to empower minorities to leadership positions, the abundance of efforts reflect the same goal: Serve the students.

The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) held Café y Conexiones to kick off this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations at NJIT. 

Launched in January 2022, Café y Conexiones brings together NJIT’s Hispanic and Latinx students with HLLC members, alumni, and business and civic leaders in the Hispanic and Latinx communities on a regular basis during the academic year.

Johmary Adames, an industrial design major at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is excited for the new semester. After participating in the Highlander Foundry program over the summer where she experienced entrepreneurship first-hand, she feels empowered to one day use her design knowledge in a company of her own.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is starting the 2022 academic year by setting records with its largest and most diverse student body ever. Total projected enrollment is up 21% over the last 10 years to hit its highest mark yet at 12,000 students. The fall first-year cohort makes up a sizable part of that growth with over 1,600 enrollees, a 30% increase from last year’s class, as of Sept. 1.

For biology graduate Xavier Reyes, his decision to hang up his lab coat in exchange for overalls to become an organic farmer is the best way he can move the needle on sustainability.

NJIT’s annual alumni weekend is a two-day extravaganza that is filled to the brim with events for returning NJIT graduates. One event in particular recognizes a select group of alumni who have achieved profound professional success: the Alumni Achievement Awards.

The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council at NJIT hosted its first event on campus encouraging students to network with invited guest speakers and industry professionals, campus support groups, faculty, staff and — importantly — each other. The monthly meeting series, Café y Conexiones, or coffee and connections, featured Provost and Executive Vice President Fadi P. Deek, as well as HLLC members Angelica Ogando and Francisco Cortes.

NJIT's annual Graduate Student Association Research Day returned to the campus this week, after being cancelled last year because of COVID, with 39 students who are pursuing doctoral and master's degrees showcasing their cutting-edge research on topics such as the pandemic, climate, transportation and cybersecurity.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is among Minority Engineer magazine’s “Top 20 Universities” for 2021.

The selection is based on a survey of the publication’s readers on the diversity of the curriculum, student body and faculty and the diversity and inclusivity of the learning environment. The readers are engineering students and professionals who identify as minorities. Other honorees this year include Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Harvard University.