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.

...those are the really supercool distinctives."