Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business represents a major new partnership for NYU. As a pre-existing program, certain elements of the curriculum were already in place. But during its transition to NYU Stern, several challenges emerged. The LSL worked closely with numerous stakeholders to help launch the project, consulting on logistics, onboarding of Scholars and Business Advisors to NYU’s systems, curricular and visual design.
Infrastructure and platforms
NYU Stern’s initial Black in Business cohort featured 150 scholars. Future cohorts will expand to 300 scholars. This represents a student body on par with all of Stern’s existing certificate programs. The LSL was able to leverage its existing knowledge of Stern and University teams, departments, and platforms to help stand up the infrastructure needed to run the program. This included helping to identify requirements for the LMS (Learning Management System) the program would use, coordinating with IT to develop onboarding procedures for non-matriculated students, and creating training and orientation resources for scholars and Business Advisors who were new to NYU’s systems.
Onboarding materials created by the LSL oriented program participants to NYU systems and services.
Visual design
Black in Business possessed several requirements unlike 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 cohort 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.