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Rutgers University–Newark has been designated an Opportunity College and University, a category created for the first time by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to recognize schools that excel at helping economically disadvantaged students find careers that pay competitive wages.
For the fourth year in a row, Rutgers-Newark has won its division of the New Jersey Ballot Bowl, a statewide non-partisan voter registration and engagement competition led by and for students.
Nestor Cardenas never imagined himself studying abroad. But through Rutgers-Newark’s Study Away program, he's been to Africa, Belize, Nepal and Ecuador.
The newest cohort of Fiserv + Rutgers-Newark Scholars joined alumni of the program recently to explore how it can open doors to the world of fintech and expand their ideas of career possibilities.
Rutgers University–Newark celebrates five-years of fighting food insecurity with JBJ Soul Kitchen restaurant, which has served more than 14,000 meals to students, faculty and community members since it opened on campus.
Rutgers University–Newark is experiencing record-breaking growth this academic year, bolstered by its expanding research enterprise, its culture of belonging, and its nationally recognized student support programs.
For the second year, a group of Rutgers–Newark students spent nine weeks interning in congressional offices in Washington, D.C., a program created in partnership with Rutgers-Newark’s Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America (CPRA) and Braven, a career accelerator.
Rutgers-Newark’s first homecoming in more than a decade drew a vibrant crowd of students, community members, and alumni–from the Class of ‘68 through the Class of ‘25– at an event that celebrated school spirit and swagger.
Rutgers-Newark cheerleaders represent Scarlet Raider spirit at basketball games and other events. But the squad-which members call a sisterhood--is one of the few college cheer teams in North Jersey performing “stomp and shake,’’ a cheer style known for its rhythm, animation and power.
RU–N Impact
A Rutgers-Newark program that helps parents provide literacy support in Newark schools has done more than improve children’s reading skills. The parents also serve as “cultural brokers,” bridging gaps between a teaching staff of mostly white suburban women and the district’s families, who are predominately Black.
Within three years, nearly half of Newark’s residential property was sold to corporate buyers, a model designed to enrich investors through returns from rent collection, and a nationwide trend that can displace residents and impede home ownership, according to a Rutgers University—Newark report titled Who Owns Newark?
For an organization that leans on collective work with many stakeholders, a global pandemic poses almost insurmountable difficulties. Yet the Newark Public Safety Collaborative’s (NPSC) work has not only continued to provide important resources for the greater Newark community but has added new areas of focus to its already expansive reservoir of information.
A collaboration between Rutgers-Newark neuroscience researcher Mark Gluck and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) researcher Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, who studies immune systems and is RBHS provost, was featured in the Daily Beast as a potentially breakthrough study.
Thirty years ago, when Rutgers-Newark alumna Nancy La Vigne entered the field of criminal justice, policy makers paid little attention to data.
Rutgers Business School professor Jeffrey Robinson, an internationally known author and co-founder of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, has been named Rutgers University—Newark’s new provost and executive vice chancellor.
The challenges of navigating college and law school as an Afro-Latina woman have been a north star for Ednin Martinez, Rutgers-Newark’s new Assistant Dean and Director of Student Compliance.
Rutgers University has selected Dr. Consuella Askew as its new Vice President for University Libraries and University Librarian. On July 18, 2022, she became Rutgers’ 15th University Librarian and the first person of color in the institution’s 256-year history to hold the position.
Rutgers University–Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her New York Times essays on race in arts and culture, the Pulitzer Prize board announced.
April is Jazz Appreciation month, but Wayne Winborne can list the many reasons jazz should be appreciated every day. Winborne is executive director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark, the world’s largest jazz archive and library, where thousands of LPs are housed along with artifacts such as Miles Davis’ green trumpet and Billie Holiday’s rhinestone jewelry.
Rutgers University–Newark’s BOLD Women’s Leadership Network and Project for Empty Space will unveil a mural created by acclaimed artist Adama Delphine Fawundu and BOLD scholarship students on June 6 at 800 Broad Street in Newark from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The seventy-foot, four-story mural, titled Courage, celebrates the power of womanhood, female identity and ancestral power.
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