Rutgers-Newark students, faculty and staff have a history of engagement with the campus's home city that is as old as the campus. Since 2007 the university has formally recognized that town/gown commitment with the annual Chancellor's Awards for Community Engagement.

2010 Awards Honor Members of the Campus Community, the Victoria Foundation

Pictured above, Chancellor Diner at the 2009 awards ceremony. View the 2010 photo gallery

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

The Office of Campus and Community Relations The Community Partnerships and Civic Engagement division of the office plans and oversees numerous outreach and community partnership projects.

Download the Community Engagement Brochure (PDF)

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

Business Support

• The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED)
• Small Business Assistance (New Jersey Small Business Development Centers)

• Paul Robeson Gallery
• The Newark Metro
• Glassroots
• Newark Mosaic

• Institute for Pre-College
• America Reads and Neighborhood Improvement Development Center (Conducted by the Conrwall Center)
• Newark Schools Research Collaborative
• 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 Performance
• R.U. Technical Assistance Program

• Abbott Leadership Institute