NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS
CONCLUSION: A SANKOFA MOMENT: Transforming Community and the World!
With this 2020 Strategic Plan, NSBE consolidates and refines its uniquely-positioned Community to Career to Community Continuum . The Plan highlights its strategic vision visually and articulates a complete map of the strategic direction with sharp focus on the three, core developmental pathways during the pre-collegiate incubation time, the collegiate actualization phase onto the professional manifestation phase. Yes, the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism will continue to rage, but NSBE will stay the course and continue undistracted on its 2025 goals of stewarding the movement of talented
Black students from their entry point in community through to successful careers.
The Sankofa is the Ghanian mythical bird that flies forward with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg in its mouth (symbolic future generations). Sankofa is a word in the Twi language of Ghana that means "Go back and get it, fetch what you forgot".
This plan allows NSBE a unique opportunity to give new energy and needed attention to
renewing each of its core developmental pathways. From a young person’s earliest moments of pre-collegiate interest in Engineering and STEM to the more mature, mid-career Engineer’s gaining strides at work, this plan doubles down on the dual tasks of innovating needed progress (in the places needed) but also preserving the core. Without unnecessary prognostication, several realities have become self-evident. Engineering and by extension STEM careers will continue to drive the economy and with this Strategic Plan, NSBE puts forward a powerful Strategic Vision and Direction where Black engineers are critical features of every aspect of the new World being born. NSBE members will be meaningfully represented in the academy as students and teachers. NSBE members will join the ranks of new history makers innovating real-time solutions right where they are needed most. NSBE members will populate the ranks of new media formats yet imagined as content creators and platform designers. Finally, NSBE members will take their place as the new Space icons, C-Suite occupants and a burgeoning class of future philanthropists making transformative social and community impacts.
Taken altogether, every place where innovation and real-world solutions are needed NSBE members will be right there.
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