Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business represents a significant partnership for NYU. Now well established at NYU Stern, the program has continued to evolve, building on its foundational curriculum while adapting to new opportunities and challenges. Throughout its transition to NYU Stern, the LSL worked closely with numerous stakeholders to support the program’s launch and ongoing development, providing expertise in logistics, onboarding Scholars and Business Advisors to NYU’s systems, and refining curricular and visual design.
Infrastructure and platforms
NYU Stern’s Black in Business program has grown since its initial cohort of 150 scholars, with cohorts expanding to 300 scholars. This represents a student body on par with all of Stern’s existing certificate programs. The LSL has leveraged its knowledge of Stern and University teams, departments, and platforms to establish the necessary infrastructure for the program. This includes identifying requirements for the LMS (Learning Management System), coordinating with IT to develop onboarding procedures for non-matriculated students, and creating training and orientation resources to support Scholars and Business Advisors in navigating NYU’s systems.
Onboarding materials created by the LSL oriented program participants to NYU systems and services.
Visual design
Black in Business possesses several requirements unlike those of other Stern programs. Course materials needed to respect existing brand guidelines from Goldman Sachs, One Million Black Women, and the existing Black in Business program, cohesively integrate material from both the prior cohorts and multiple contributing Stern faculty members, and adhere to teaching and learning best practices. The LSL coordinated to ensure that all these needs were met.
The LSL contributed to the design of curricular slides for the program.
Curricular development
The LSL contributed to the planning and development of course materials for the program, most notably in helping design the Black in Business Action Plan. The Action Plan persists through the course and guides scholars in collecting and organizing the work they complete in each lesson into a final, actionable deliverable that they will apply in their businesses.
The Action Plan scaffolded Scholars' efforts into a final deliverable.