For students with children and other family members who depend on them, the holidays can be an especially hard time to keep everyone fed. This year has been even harder with the interruption and restriction of SNAP benefits. To help fill the gaps, Rutgers-Newark leadership, issued the Compassion Challenge to collect 500 pounds of donations to fill campus food pantry shelves.
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.
Rutger-Newark alumnus Sean McGovern is the face of the family-owned McGovern's Tavern, beloved hangout for students, faculty and staff since RU-N was established in 1946.
Tik Tok influencer Nicolas Nuvan, a Rutgers alum known for his on-the-street interviews with everyday Black and brown people–encounters that often revolve around food–revealed how and why he forms connections wherever he goes at an Express Newark event.
More languages are spoken in New Jersey than almost any other state, yet there is a critical shortage of translators. Students and faculty from the Lives in Translation program are helping to fill the void.
The news site CivicStory featured The Newark City of Learning Collaborative’s success in working to boost the college graduation rate among Newarkers. The collaborative, which is based at Rutgers-Newark, has already reached a goal of helping 25 percent of city residents attain degrees by 2025.