Newark high schoolers take classes on campus and get the college experience in the Dual Enrollment Program.
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To mark a nationwide celebration of First Generation college students, Rutgers Today profiled students who are the first in their families to attend college. Among them is Rutgers-Newark student Safanya Searcy, 42, an Honors Living Learning Community (HLLC) scholar with two decades of experience as a public servant and political organizer.
A Rutgers-Newark after-school STEM program for grade school and middle school children that will also train local college students to work with them received a grant from the Bayer Fund.
The naming of Frederick Douglass Field at Rutgers-Newark is complete now that a plaque marks the spot where Douglass gave a speech to 19th-century Black activists.
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.
At the “Soul Brain" dance party, seniors boogied down and learned tips to sharpen their minds and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s, a form of dementia Black people get at twice the rate of the overall population.