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  • November 15, 2023: Chancellor Nancy Cantor Delivers Diversity and The Future of Higher Education at Progress Summit 2023

    October 2023: A Message from Rutgers University – Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor

    August 17, 2023: A Message from Rutgers University – Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor on this special place

    May 2023: Chancellor Cantor's 2023 Commencement Remarks

    May 2022: Message of Solidarity from Chancellor Cantor in the Aftermath of the Buffalo Shooting

    May 2022: Chancellor Cantor's 2022 Commencement Remarks

     

  • June 2020: Message from Chancellor regarding Supreme Court opinions on DACA and LGBTQ rights

    March 2020: Message from Chancellor regarding immigration policy changes and available supports

    October 2018: Remarks on Title IX

    March 2018: Remarks at Student Rally: No Dream Deferred

    September 2017: In Response to Trump Adminstration's Announcement on DACA, a message from President Barchi and Chancellors Cantor, Dutta, Haddon, and Strom

    September 2017: Message from Chancellor Nancy Cantor regarding DACA changes

    February 2017: Remarks at Student Solidarity Rally: Rutgers-Newark & NJIT Against #MuslimBan

    January 2017: Message of solidarity from Chancellor Cantor

    December 2016: Clarifying Rutgers' Position on Protecting Student Rights, a message from President Barchi

    November 2016: College & University Presidents Call for U.S. to Uphold and Continue DACA

    November 2016: Supporting Our Students' Respectful Free Expression and Privacy, a message from President Barchi

    November 2016: Message from Chancellor Nancy Cantor Regarding Student Petition

  • February 2023: 43rd Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2022: 42nd Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2021: 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2020: 40th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2018: 38th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2017: 37th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2016: 36th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2015: 35th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

    February 2014: 34th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

  • September 6, 2023: Remarks at 2023 New Student Convocation

    August 2, 2023: Message on the Passing of NJ Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver

    March 16, 2023: A Message from Rutgers University – Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor on the Passing of Former State Senator Ron Rice

    January 2023: Message from Chancellor Cantor: Recent Violent Incidents Nationally

    January 2022: Message from the Chancellor: RU-N Advancement Leader Tapped as VP of Rutgers Foundation

    August 2021: Message from Chancellor Cantor: Repopulating Rutgers-Newark

    May 2021: Message from Chancellor Cantor: Condemning Hate

    April 2021: Vice Chancellor Marcia Brown to retire from Rutgers-Newark

    April 2021: Message from Chancellor Cantor on the Chauvin Verdict

    March 2021: Message from the Chancellor: Fall 2021 Plans

    January 2021: Message from the Chancellor: the Passing of a Dear Rutgers-Newark Colleague

    January 2021: Message from Chancellor Cantor on the Siege on the U.S. Capitol

    October 2020: Message from Chancellor Cantor, Students Leaders on Voter Registration

    July 2020: Chancellor's Message on Immigration Policy Announcement

    July 2020: Chancellor's Message to RU-N Community on Returning in Fall 2020

    May 2020: Message in the Aftermath of George Floyd’s Death

    May 2020: Message from the Chancellor: Fall 2020 Academic Planning

    May 2020: A Message to Graduating Students from Chancellor Nancy Cantor

    April 2020: Message from Chancellor Cantor: Emergency Support

    April 2020: A Message to Rutgers–Newark Alumni and Friends

    March 2020: A Message to Our Community Partners

    March 2020: Message from Chancellor: The Remainder of Spring 2020

    March 2020: Message from Chancellor: Responding to Evolving Challenges

    December 2019: Chancellor's Message regarding the Jersey City tragedy

    August 2019: Chancellor's Message in the aftermath of El Paso and Dayton shootings

    June 2019: Message from the Chancellor on Pride Month

    May 2019: 2019 Commencement Remarks

    May 2019: Chancellor's Message Regarding Hate Speech Allegations

    April 2019: Chancellor's Message Regarding Recent Attacks

    April 2019: Chancellor's Remarks at Dedication of Frederick Douglass

    March 2019: Chancellor and Provost Announce Dean Transition

    March 2019: Chancellor's Message on the Mali Massacre

    March 2019: Statement against White Supremacist Terror

    October 2018: Working against Hate

    October 2018: Preparing RU-N for Election Day

    September 2018: Remarks at New Student Convocation

    August 2018: Chancellor's Message on the Passing of Dean Jan Lewis

    June 2018: Chancellor's Statement of Solidarity regarding Immigration Concerns

    May 2018: 2018 Commencement Remarks

    September 2017: Global Natural and Human-made Disasters

    September 2017: Remarks at New Student Convocation 2017

    May 2017: Remarks at Commencement 2017

    December 2016: Loss of a Luminous Alumnus, Al Koeppe

    November 2016: Post-Election Message of Support to RU-N Community Members

    May 2016: Rutgers University-Newark Commencement 2016 Opening Remarks

    December 2015: Leveraging our Diversity

    November 2015: Statement of Solidarity: On Paris

    November 2015: Strategic Plan Update Remarks to the University Senate

    June 2015: Chancellor's Message of Solidarity with Charleston, SC

    May 2015: 2015 Commencement Remarks

    November 2014: On the Passing of Clement Alexander Price

    May 2014: 2014 Commencement Opening Remarks

  • March 2021: Higher Ed Leaders Should Keep Engaging on Immigration (with Louis Caldera and Alan W. Cramb) Inside Higher Ed

    March 2021: Students will graduate soon. We need to help them find a job during a pandemic. NJ.com

    January 2021: Privilege and Racism: Numbers Count, in Many Different Ways (with Earl Lewis)  Medium

    April 2020: What Are We Going to Do About Structural Inequities Highlighted by Pandemic? (with Peter Englot)  NJ Spotlight

    April 2019: Standing with our students: Congress must pass the American Dream and Promise Act The Hill

    February 2019: Giving Young Undocumented Immigrants Driver’s Licenses Benefits All NJ.com

    June 2018: How colleges must collaborate to lift up the communities just outside their door The Conversation

    June 2018: College Presidents Must Be Loud and Clear in Support of Immigration The Chronicle of Higher Education

    August 2017: After Charlottesville Huffington Post

    January 2017: Making America Great Again? New Jersey Can Lead the Way Star-Ledger

    January 2016: Fulfilling Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream: The Role for Higher Education, The Conversation

    January 2016: Why Do We Keep Dropping the Coach's Challenge Flag on Campus Protests? Huffington Post

    June 2015: Mirror, mirror: reflections on race and the visage of higher education in America, The Conversation

  • July 12, 2023: Remarks to the American Council of Learned Societies Leadership Institute

    April 27, 2023: Women in Data Science Welcome Remarks

    April 10, 2023: Remarks from the Chancellor at a webinar titled In the Face of Resistance: Advancing Equity in Higher Education
    Video of the event on our YouTube channel

    March 2023: Message from the Chancellor: Newark Update to the Rutgers University Senate

    January 2022: Message from the Chancellor: Newark Update to Rutgers University Senate

    June 2021: Building the Inclusive Academy from the Outside In

    February 2021: Rutgers-Newark Update 2020-21 to the Rutgers University Senate

    January 2021: National Day of Racial Healing Remarks

    January 2020: The Urgency of Recommitting Higher Education to the Public Good in 2020 and Beyond, Keynote address upon receiving the Ernest L. Boyer Award

    January 2019: A 21st Century Challenge: Empathetic Leadership and Inclusive Institution, Invited keynote to a group of higher education leaders convened by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

    May 2018: Remarks at Governor's Press Conference to Sign Dreamer Financial Aid Bill

    January 2018: Mutually Beneficial Democratic Engagement Between Universities and Their Communities, Opening keynote address at AAC&U symposium titled, The Power of Civic Engagement – Across Campus, Within Communities, Beyond Borders

    December 2017: Keynote Address at Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Annual Conference

    November 2017: Remarks on Higher Education and Immigration,  National Press Club

    October 2017: The Compelling Interest of Diversity and Inclusion: Threat or Opportunity? Keynote address given at Rutgers Diversity and Inclusion Conference

    May 2017: Anchor Institution Coalitions to Reduce Urban Inequality, Keynote address given at the launch of the New Jersey Coalition of Anchor Institutions, Princeton, New Jersey

    March 2017: Anchor Institution – Community Engagement in Newark: Striving Together, Remarks given at the symposium Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice: Reimagining the University/City Connection at Rutgers University – Camden.

    March 2017: Educating More of Our Children, and Educating Them Together, Keynote address presented at the Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland 2016 Dashboard Report Launch, Cleveland, Ohio

    January 2017: Remarks at the Grand Opening of the Hahne & Co. Building

    April 2016: Anchor Institutions and Urban Inequality, Global Urban Futures Conference

    April 2016: Keynote: Faculty Diversity Matters: Cultivating Wisdom, Moving to Action

    April 2016: Reconnecting with a Shared Public Mission in Shared Governance, Address to University of Pennsylvania Faculty Senate

    November 2015: Chancellor's Invited Remarks at Rally in Solidarity with University of Missouri

    October 2015: Diversity or Bust: Why Inclusivity Must Become a Top Priority for Higher Education

    May 2015: The Looking Glass University: Listening to Strangers and Tending to Democracy, the Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

  • January 2022: Greater Newark Tapped as 11th GreenLight Location, Will Receive $6M Investment to Meet Needs of Residents. Tap Into Newark

    March 2021: Changing Higher Ed from the Outside In. The Way Forward: Higher Education in a Time of Crisis

    October 2020: Rutgers Newark chancellor discusses the origins of systemic racism with Steve Adubato  State of Affairs with Steve Adubato

    May 2018: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice The Hechinger Report

    December 2017: Advocating the public mission of research universities University World News

    March 2017: Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Shares Importance of Diversity One on One with Steve Adubato

    October 2016: 'Our Compelling Interests' Inside Higher Ed

    July 2016: The Chancellor of Rutgers on Admissions and the Meritocracy The Atlantic

    May 2016: A University That Prioritizes the Students Who Are Often Ignored The Atlantic

    October 2015: Beyond the Ivory Tower NPR

    July 2015: Against the Tide: One College Leader Who Champions Socioeconomic Diversity New America Ed Central

    July 2015: Against the Tide: Chancellor Cantor Stands Out Among Higher-Ed Leaders for Commitment to Socioeconomic Diversity The Hechinger Report

    March 2015: Nancy Cantor on "Due Process"

    June 2014: Community Organizer, an interview with Chancellor Nancy Cantor Rutgers Magazine

    June 2014: Radius Magazine: Dinner with Chancellor Nancy Cantor

    May 2014: Reflections on the First Four Months, on NJTV

    November 2013: Getting to Know Her: an Interview with Chancellor Nancy Cantor

    June 2013: Nancy Cantor to Become Chancellor of Rutgers-Newark

  • February 23, 2023: Schools That Can webinar: What will Universities Look Like in 5 Years?

    March 2021: The Way Forward podcast: Higher Education in a Time of Crisis

    December 2020: On the Naming of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall

    September 2020: Rock Steady: Express Newark

    August 2020: Steve Adubato #UNCUT

    July 2020: State of Affairs: Examining Systemic Racism

    February 2017: One on One: The Importance of Diversity

    November 2016: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: On Collaboration and Diversity

    June 2014: Gender Summit 4, European Union: Reconceptualising Human Capital

    June 2014: Words Matter, NJ Arts News

    May 2014: NJTV News with Mike Schneider

  • Transforming the Academy: The Urgency of Recommitting Higher Education to the Public Good Liberal Education, Winter/Spring 2020 Vol.106 No.1/2

    Tackling “The Two Americas” with City-Wide Collaboration in Newark (with Tai Cooper, Marcia Brown, and Peter Englot), Journal on Anchor Institutions and Communities, Vol. 2 (2019)

    Of Mutual Benefit: Democratic Engagement between Universities and Communities, Association of American Colleges & Universities. 

    Expanding Educational Access: A Critical Anchor Institution Mission (with Peter Englot), Journal on Anchor Institutions and Communities, Vol. 1, p. 4 (2016)

    Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

    The Future of Affirmative Action: Chapter 2: Defining the  Stakes

    Psychological Science in Public: It Takes a Diverse Village to Make a Difference (with Peter Englot), in Collaboration in Psychological Science, Eugene Borgida and Richard Zweigenshaft, eds., forthcoming

    Reinventing Scholar-Educators as Citizens and Public Workers (with Peter Englot), in Democracy’s Education: Public Work, Citizenship, & the Future of Colleges and Universities, Harry C. Boyte, ed., Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015

    Civic Renewal of Higher Education through Renewed Commitment to the Public Good (with Peter Englot), in Civic Engagement, Civic Development, and Higher Education, Jill N. Reich, ed., Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities Press, April 2014

    Making the Work of Anchor Institutions Stick: Building Coalitions and Collective Expertise (with Peter Englot and Marilyn Higgins), Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Vol. 17, Number 3, p. 17 (2013)

    Beyond the “Ivory Tower”: Restoring the Balance of Private and Public Purposes of General Education (with Peter Englot), The Journal of General Education, Vol. 62, Numbers 2-3 (2013)

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