K–12 programs
College & Career Lab (CCL)
Offers classes and workshops for New York City middle and high school students, helping them to explore a variety of academic and professional pathways, navigate through systemic barriers to achievement, and develop essential skills needed for success in high school, college, and beyond.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
Opportunity Programs
Offers college and pre-college programs for underserved and disadvantaged students.
Global Enrollment Management and Student Success (NYU Office of the Provost)
Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP)
Provides assistance with NYU admission, as well as academic and financial support, to traditionally underserved, low-income New York State students.
Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP)
Aims to increase access by minority or disadvantaged students to academic programs that prepare them for scientific, technical and health-related professions.
Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP)
Provides pre-college enrichment for African American, Hispanic/Latino, Alaskan Native or American Indian and economically disadvantaged White or Asian middle and high school students.
Center for K-12 STEM Education
Collaborates with K-12 schools, teachers and students to increase access to high-quality learning experiences, STEM-focused higher education, and related careers.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
High School and Middle School Programs
Offers immersive academic experiences for students in grades 5 through 12 to help them hone their talents, build academic portfolios, earn college credit, and boost their preparedness for college.
Sponsored by Global Enrollment Management and Student Success (NYU Office of the Provost)
CDS Undergraduate Research Program (CURP)
Provides undergraduate students, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, with mentorship and research opportunities in the field of data science, under the supervision of faculty at NYU’s Center for Data Science (CDS).
Sponsored by NYU Faculty of Arts and Science
Saturday Academy
Increases diversity in the healthcare professions, especially dentistry, by introducing underrepresented high school students to the profession of dentistry, while simultaneously preparing them for the college application process.
NYU College of Dentistry
Other scholarships
Includes programs for new NYU students and current undergraduates as well as scholarships from outside sources.
College and post-graduate programs
Community College Transfer Opportunity Program (CCTOP)
Provides scholarships and other assistance to students transferring into NYU from partnership community colleges.
Participating NYU Schools: College of Arts & Science; Rory Meyers College of Nursing; Silver School of Social Work; School of Professional Studies Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies; Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Tisch School of the Arts
Financial Education
Provides resources and tools to help current and prospective NYU students expand their financial literacy and manage their personal finances.
Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars Program
Offers a rich combination of faculty engagement, travel colloquia, undergraduate research, and service learning to selected first-year students who have demonstrated a commitment to furthering the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Camp Changemaker
Helps undergraduate students who are interested in social change explore their strengths, develop leadership skills, and identify changemaking opportunities where they can make a future impact in their academic and career pursuits.
Wasserman Center for Career Development (Office of Student Affairs)
GSAS: Diversity and Access Funding Programs
Offers fellowship and scholarship opportunities to disadvantaged and first-generation students whose academic and research experience will contribute significantly to diversity and excellence at the Graduate School of Arts and Science.
Quality Undergraduate Education and Scholarly Training (QUEST)
Offers an eight-week, full-time summer program that seeks to increase the opportunities for underrepresented students of color to get into doctoral degree programs in applied psychology and related fields.
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Stern: Breakthrough Scholars Leadership Program
Equips a select group of highly talented and high-performing NYU Stern undergraduate scholars from diverse backgrounds with the skills and relationships needed to grow and excel at school and in their professional careers.
Steinhardt: Scholarships for Underrepresented Populations
Offers scholarships to graduate-level students with diverse backgrounds, including African Americans, Latinx people, Native Americans, people with disabilities, first-generation college grads, LGBTQ+ people, and other underserved communities.
NYU GPH: Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research Summer Program (PQAR)
Increases the participation of underrepresented minority groups in the fields of Biostatistics and quantitative Public Health, with a collaborative focus on the diseases and processes of aging. Students receive formal and informal instruction, mentored research, and extensive professional development activities, with a culminating symposium. For lasting impact, follow-up mentoring, continuing research and professional development is ongoing.
Institute of Education Sciences-Funded Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training (IES-PIRT)
Recruits fellows primarily from groups underrepresented in the education sciences and provides them with the research knowledge, professional skills, and practical experience needed to assist U.S. policymakers with tackling our nation’s pressing education issues.
Institute of Human Development and Social Change (NYU Steinhardt)
Social Perception, Action & Motivation Lab (SPAM Lab)
Conducts scientific studies of motivational behaviors and strategies, and applies the findings toward improving the conditions of underserved populations—those who are at an economic disadvantage, who are the first to attend college, who are working in fields where they are underrepresented, or who are members of racial or ethnic minorities facing bias and discrimination.
NYU Faculty of Arts and Science
Research Education in Oral Health Sciences (REOHS)
Offers an immersive summer experience including research, professional and educational workshops, and faculty and peer mentorship, in order to encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to pursue further studies or careers in research and to increase representation in the oral health sciences.
NYU College of Dentistry
Faculty programs
Early Career Faculty Institute (ECFI)
Fosters a mentoring culture by helping newly appointed faculty to pursue networking opportunities, explore pathways toward tenure and promotion, and work with technical and career mentors.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
Mid-Career Faculty Initiative (MCFI)
Helps to develop new strategies, build additional support systems, and provide resources to facilitate the career progression and readiness of tenured Associate Professors who have been at rank for at least seven years post-tenure, to advance to Full Professors.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
Faculty Cluster Initiative
Promotes the hiring and advancement of faculty with diverse backgrounds and life experiences who share a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
James Weldon Johnson Professorship
Offers research support, including monetary grants, to scholars whose work has a far-reaching impact in the areas of social justice, inequality, criminal justice reform, and related topics.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Offices of the Provost and the President)
NYU Distinguished Teaching Awards (DTA)
Highest award given to faculty at NYU highlighting NYU’s commitment to teaching excellence.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
Teaching Advancement Grant (TAG)
Helps NYU faculty members create new academic programs and courses, enhance and expand existing courses or programs, and undertake special projects that will impact students and promote innovative teaching practices.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Supports promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU.
NYU Office of the Provost
Faculty Resource Network (FRN)
Hosts lectures, symposia, seminars, and visiting scholar opportunities for faculty and administrators from over 50 colleges and universities, with the aim of improving the quality of teaching and learning at its member institutions.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
Leadership Development
Fosters the next generation of academic leaders, deans, provosts and presidents by offering a range of professional development opportunities, including academic leadership coaching with our partners, Academic Impressions, throughout the faculty lifecycle.
Center for Faculty Advancement (NYU Office of the Provost)
Faculty First-Look (FFL)
Provides opportunities for underrepresented scholars to interact with NYU faculty, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students, deans and administrators, and to help them prepare for a faculty career.
These schools host FFL scholar programs:
FAS: Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Development
Promotes and supports inclusive excellence in the work of the Faculty of Arts Science.