Rutgers-Newark students, faculty and staff have a history of engagement with the campus's home city that is as old as the campus. In 2007, for the first time, the university formally recognized that town/gown commitment when Chancellor Steven Diner presented the inaugural annual Chancellor's Awards for Community Engagement.

Pictured left, the Department of Social Work, winners of the 2008 departmental award, with Chancellor Steven Diner.

Below are some of the ways we act as good neighbors to the people and institutions of Newark.

Download the Community Service Brochure (PDF)

R-N faculty, staff, and students volunteer at the Newark Conservancy for Earth Day

Business Support

• Small Business Assistance (New Jersey Small Business Development Centers)

• Paul Robeson Gallery
• The Newark Metro
• Glassroots

• Institute for Pre-College
• America Reads and Neighborhood Improvement Development Center
• Writing Center Outreach to the Newark Community
• Honors College Tutoring Programs (contact: John Gunkel

• Golden Dome athletics programs
• CIMIC

• Law Clinics (Rutgers Newark Law Urban and Community Law Clinics)

• America Reads and Neighborhood Improvement Development Center
• Student Ambassadors Outreach Program
• CASE
• Writing Center Outreach to the Newark Community

• Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
• Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies
• Institute on Education Law and Policy
• Police Institute at Rutgers-Newark
• Greater Newark Safer Cities Initative
• College of Nursing programs (click on Community Programs)
• Center for Study of Public Security
• National Center for Public Productivity
• R.U. Technical Assistance Program

• Abbott Leadership Institute