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The Power of SUNY promised to embed SUNY's commitment to diversity in everything we do. Diversity enriches our lives and the educational experience, invigorates conversations, awakens curiosity, and widens perspectives. Diversity also ensures our campuses mirror the rapidly changing world, creating an environment that prepares our students to be culturally competent so they can succeed anywhere.

• Diversity Counts in A Competitive SUNY - In A Competitive SUNY, we looked at a number of measurements typically associated with responsible 21st-century higher education. In this section, we seek to look at the same elements, but using disaggregated data to highlight opportunities for us to better serve underrepresented populations.

• Diversity Counts in A Competitive New York - The Power of SUNY made six clear commitments to diversity opportunities within the Six Big Ideas. In this section, we hold ourselves accountable to those promises.

At SUNY, we recognize our diversity makes us stronger and smarter. We respect, encourage, and promote all aspects of human difference. Diversity enriches lives and the educational experience. By capitalizing on diversity, our SUNY campuses invigorate conversations, awaken curiosity, foster civic engagement, and widen perspectives.

Beyond being a pathway to culturally competent employment, SUNY campuses are also the training grounds for many future corporate and community leaders. As the Supreme Court recognized, the path to leadership should be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity in order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry. The SUNY student body is sewn from the threads of our nation’s diverse quilt, where the views of all students across the educational spectrum are sought out and given voice.

In sum, SUNY’s diverse educational environments create an intellectual climate that fosters respect for differences, stimulates innovation, encourages collaboration, and prepares students to live and work productively in a multiracial and multiethnic society.