NJIT’s new strategic plan spells out the university’s mission to be a leader in research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and reaffirms its core values – including collaboration, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability. “NJIT Makes An Innovation Nexus” identifies six priorities and extends
through 2030.

Under the priority Learner Advancement and Success, for example, the university will make experiential learning a hallmark of an NJIT education by ensuring that every student has at least one high-impact, real world experience. At the same time, NJIT will focus on creating a holistic campus environment and helping graduates realize their career goals.

“Innovation is at the core of what we do,” NJIT President Teik C. Lim said. “We’re part of an interconnected system that can advance humanity, and students here can change lives, including their own.”

In its Faculty Success priority, NJIT pledges to attract and retain world class faculty, leverage diversity, increase recognition for translating and commercializing research, and more tightly weave lecturers and adjunct professors into its community.  

Also, through internal and external collaboration and investments in infrastructure, NJIT plans to leverage its status as a highest level R1 research institution and catalyze commercialization. This priority, Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, draws from NJIT’s entrepreneurial culture, which drives innovations through scores of specialized centers, institutes and laboratories.

Another priority, Engaged Community, calls for fostering a dynamic ecosystem locally, regionally and globally that nurtures learning, research, creativity and technological advancements to serve the students of the future.

In this context, NJIT will leverage its academic colleges and its expertise in translational research, artificial intelligence, continuing education, entrepreneurship and experiential learning. Another key player is the New Jersey Innovation Institute, an NJIT corporation that turns ideas into new businesses.

Other priorities include: Digital Transformation (building a smart campus that integrates the latest in tech, including AI, across all of its operations) and Fiscal Excellence and Resource Stewardship (seeking new sources of revenue, maximizing existing ones and improving fiscal management).

For a deep dive on the entire plan, please visit: njit.edu/strategicplan