
Rutgers-Newark is proud to be named a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution leader for the second year in a row by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
For more than two decades, Rutgers-Newark has been among the most diverse universities in the U.S. Our current undergraduate enrollment reflects this continued leadership.
Newark residents
Reflecting the high priority we place on not just having a diverse community, but leveraging that diversity to make a difference, Rutgers-Newark has earned the following distinctions.
At Rutgers-Newark, we encourage all members of our community not to check their identities at the door. Our inspirational Strategic Plan and Diversity Strategic Plan provide us frameworks for weaving perspectives and experiences into our high-impact scholarship and curriculum across the disciplines that deepen our appreciation of each other’s cultures while also demonstrating our interdependence. See our array of undergraduate and graduate programs, and examples below of special academic opportunities.
At Rutgers-Newark, we are firm believers that access to higher education without the support required to be successful is not really access at all. This belief underlies our array of initiatives that aim to support Latinx student success financially, academically, and in personal and professional growth, including the following.
Enjoy perusing a selection of our news stories, profiles, and videos that reflect the breadth and depth of the experience of Latinx members of the Rutgers-Newark community.
Rutgers-Newark is proud to be named a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution leader for the second year in a row by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
In honor of Hispanic/Latinix Heritage Month, Samuel Olivencia, an Honors Living-Learning Community student, reflects on the "strange duality" of Puerto Rican culture, which exists because of colonialism and in spite of it.
Natalia Murillo Salazar remembers the support she received from a detective after a childhood trauma. The experience inspired her to pursue a major in Criminal Justice.
On her own since immigrating at age18, business major Vanesa Freire found resources and stability at RU-N.
Solcyre Burga was inspired by her journalism professors to report on educational inequities. She now works at TIME magazine as a fact-checker and reporter.
Alisson Lopez is finding her path at the HLLC, where students become change agents. The program, a national model, expands notions of merit.
An Anthem for Immigrants
A spoken word poem written for Something to Declare, a student devised theater piece about the immigrant experience.
As our government’s immigration policy evolves, Newest Americans explores what is at stake for Marisol Conde-Hernandez and her family.
What does it mean to be American?
Rutgers students create glass sculptures based on the stories of Lusophone migrants to Newark.
Journey between Central America and New Jersey with people who are transforming a small Guatemalan town
Rutgers-Newark faculty, staff, and students are active contributors to the efforts of national organizations to strengthen higher education’s commitment to supporting Latinx students, including:
For questions about Rutgers-Newark as a Hispanic-Serving Institution, please e-mail HSI@newark.rutgers.edu.