Rutgers-Newark has awarded nine grants to advance efforts that encourage understanding and enable relationship-building on campus and within the city.
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The summer was time to take flight for high schoolers in a Rutgers-Newark program that gave them the chance to pilot a Cessna and learn about jobs in the aviation and aerospace industries.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka will give the keynote speech at the April 26 “Equitable Growth in the City” conference hosted by Rutgers-Newark Center on Law, inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME).
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, leaders from Rutgers-Newark and city businesses, and representatives from Braven, a non-profit dedicated to empowering first-generation and other underrepresented college students, met at Prudential’s Newark headquarters to explore the transformative impact of collaboration
Philanthropy isn’t confined to moguls and their million-dollar donations, students learned in a Rutgers-Newark class last spring. To raise money and awareness, they created videos about local nonprofits.
Charles A. Brown began leading Rutgers Business School’s Office of Diversity Programs nearly a decade ago, overseeing programs to attract historically underrepresented students to business fields and to prepare them to take on leadership positions in the corporate world.