| Diversity is CDI's strongest value and most valuable strategy. To quote one of our observers, we are "intentionally, viscerally, by design public-private, interdisciplinary and interinstitutional; [our] very existence comes about in response to a clearly-identified cluster of community economic activity; [we] are truly madly deeply about innovation, the key to our future economy; and [we] are linked by charter to our community colleges. From a [UNC] system perspective, those are the really supercool distinctives." |