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Tag: Rutgers University-New Brunswick
African-American
Rutgers Renames Building to Honor Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor
Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Board of Governors voted to rename a building on campus in honor of late civil rights activist and minister The Reverend Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor. Originally known as the Administrative Services Building 1, the newly named and recently renovated Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor Hall houses student services. Proctor—who first spoke at Rutgers […]
June 28, 2021
News Roundup
Dr. Francine Conway Appointed Chancellor-Provost of Rutgers University New Brunswick
Dr. Francine Conway has been appointed chancellor-provost of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, a new position that combines the two roles, effective July 1, following approval of the three-year appointment by the Rutgers Board of Governors. Conway has been New Brunswick provost since November 2020. She is an internationally recognized child psychologist. As provost, she will continue […]
May 21, 2021
News Roundup
Personal Library of African American Literature Scholar Donated to Rutgers
The personal library of the late Cheryl Wall, a scholar known for championing African American literature and Black women writers, has been donated by her family to Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Paul Robeson Cultural Center, according to Rutgers’s officials.
February 2, 2021
African-American
Prominent Literary Scholar Dr. Cheryl A. Wall Dead at 71
Dr. Cheryl A. Wall — a well-known champion of Black women writers and a longtime professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick — died on April 4, 2020. She was 71. An expert in African American literature, American literature and feminist criticism, Wall was the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick, […]
April 7, 2020
Sports
150 Years Later, No Marker at Site of First College Football Game
Fans who visit the spot where basketball was invented can pose for a photo with a statue in Springfield, Mass., and those interested in the purported site of the first baseball game will find a tidy, thigh-high stone monument and plaque in Hoboken, N.J. Meanwhile the birthplace of American football is marked by a sign […]
August 27, 2019
News Roundup
Rutgers Adjuncts Hold Grade-In for Equal Pay, Job Security
Adjunct professors at all three Rutgers University campuses are holding a grade-in Wednesday to demand equal pay for equal work. The part-time lecturers (PTL) will be joined by full-time faculty and graduate students across the Camden, Newark and New Brunswick campuses as they seek $7,250 per course taught, access to health care, job security through […]
April 30, 2019
Latinx
Rutgers Can Do More for New Jersey’s African-American Population
In January, 2019 Rutgers kicked off a year of celebrations to mark 100 years since the graduation of our famous alum, Paul Robeson. Yet, despite the hoopla, the university continues to neglect the needs of African-Americans in our state in a manner that is openly contemptuous of Robeson’s core ideas.
February 13, 2019
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Robeson Centennial Celebration Inspires New Diversity Efforts at Rutgers
In celebrating the 100th anniversary of the graduation of one of its most famous alumni, Rutgers University–New Brunswick is endeavoring to give Paul Robeson a measure of respect and honor in death that eluded him in life.
February 13, 2019
HBCUs
Marybeth Gasman to Join Rutgers Faculty
Dr. Marybeth Gasman, who has established herself as one of the nation’s most prominent scholars of historically Black colleges in particular and minority-serving institutions in general, is leaving the University and Pennsylvania to join the faculty at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, in the Fall.
December 6, 2018
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick Strives to Make Students Feel at Home
Because of its longstanding commitment to providing access to minority undergraduate and graduate students, Rutgers University-New Brunswick was ranked as one of Diverse’s Top 100 producers of undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
August 23, 2018
Faculty & Staff
Rutgers Chancellor Abruptly Steps Down, Interim Steps In
Telling sources that his vision didn’t fit with the way others see the role, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Chancellor Dr. Debasish “Deba” Dutta suddenly stepped down Tuesday after one year in the position. The problem seemed to be a difference of opinion between Dutta and the president, Dr. Robert Barchi, about the role of chancellor and […]
July 27, 2018
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