Program Statement
The LGO Program shares MIT’s commitment to create a respectful learning environment and foster an inclusive community that allows all students to thrive. We seek to ensure that all LGO program applicants, students, and graduates are provided an equal opportunity to succeed.
We value the range of perspectives that derive from our community members’ individual backgrounds and life experiences. We acknowledge our unique opportunity to cultivate equitable practices in business and technology that positively impact our local, national, and global communities. We are committed to taking deliberate and continuous steps to provide a program that embraces, celebrates, and models the ideals of well-being, belonging, and empowerment.
Active Allyship Committee
The student-created Active Allyship Committee seeks to make the LGO experience inclusive and equitable. Areas of activity may include:
- Expanding marketing and recruiting efforts to ensure access to the LGO program is equitable to students of all backgrounds, cultures, and identities
- Inviting speakers from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, and identities to share their personal and professional journeys
LGO Under-Represented Minority Alumni Group (URMAG)
The LGO URMAG was created in 2020 to help attract more underrepresented minority students and strengthen the relationships of LGO alumni through networking, mentoring and knowledge-sharing. URMAG is open to all LGO alumni who share these goals. Several of the current focus areas include:
- Increasing recruitment of URM candidates through engagement with professional and affinity organizations to enhance the visibility of the LGO program and strengthen the pipeline of high caliber URM talent that apply
- Creating a strong alumni community through networking, mentoring, and events designed to increase interactions, discussion, and relationship-building between alumni
