Rutgers University–New Brunswick will launch a new minor this fall in interdisciplinary disability studies –designed to support the lived experience of those with disabilities and examine how society views and understands the meaning and consequences of being disabled.

Since 2008, Rutgers Future Scholars has guided more than 3,200 promising first-generation students from Rutgers’ host cities – Newark, New Brunswick, Camden, Piscataway and, starting in 2016, Rahway – from seventh grade through college graduation. The program promises free access to higher education along with academic and, in many cases, emotional support along the way.

“The program came out of a need from communities that people say are at risk or disadvantaged,” said Kayla Rodriguez, RFS program coordinator. “And so we wanted to shift that narrative and say that students who are from these communities can be great, can access higher education, and make a difference in this world.”

After being involved with political campaigns on and off campus, Shakee Merritt is now working on launching the GENNEX Political Action Committee, “a PAC dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing Generation Z to run, vote and partake in the democratic system one hundred percent.”

Known as the Rites of Passage, this meaningful ceremony that precedes commencement honors Black, African, and Latinx students, many of whom are the first in their families to receive degrees.

Each year these awards honor members of the Rutgers community selected by their colleagues for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and public service. This year, 29 individuals have been selected for recognition in ten awards categories.

Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, the RWJBarnabas Health network and nonprofit organization Woods Services are establishing the first integrated primary and behavioral health care center for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism in New Jersey.

IFH core faculty members Dr. Darina Petrovsky and Dr. Ann Nguyen are the recipients of grants from Rutgers University Equity and Inclusion’s Mutual Mentoring Program. The program supports faculty at any career stage in developing robust mentorship networks, within and outside of Rutgers University, to combat isolation and ensure all faculty have the resources they need to thrive.

Chancellor Antonio D. Tillis's bold vision for the Chancellor's Lecture Series on Global Racial Reckoning and Civility came to fruition for the second consecutive year on Monday, March 27, as a standing-room-only crowd of more than 250 faculty, staff, students, alumni, and members of the Rutgers Board of Trustees gathered at Rutgers University in Camden for a keynote speech by five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi.

The first-ever Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Campus Climate Survey is open to eligible students, faculty and staff through April 10, 2023. It stems from the first University Diversity Strategic Plan, which affirmed Rutgers’ commitment to purposefully support efforts to strengthen diversity, equity and inclusion across the university. 

Rutgers–Camden Chancellor Antonio D. Tillis, Camden Mayor Victor Carstarphen, and community leaders gathered to celebrate the exceptional contributions of six Rutgers–Camden students who worked alongside Camden leaders this summer.

The Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care National Call Center has been selected to serve as one of 12 national backup centers that will triage overflow calls made to 9-8-8, a new national hotline for mental health crisis and suicide prevention that launched July 16. 

Rutgers medical students from the community service organization North American Disease Intervention (NADI) were providing the on-site screenings as part of a health fair organized by Rutgers Global Health Institute in collaboration with multiple local partners.

Newark artists and city leaders yesterday celebrated the completion of 14 new public installations created through a partnership between Audible and 20 Newark artists and collectives, including many Rutgers-Newark alumni.

In a mural created by Rutgers-Newark BOLD scholars and acclaimed artist Adama Delphine Fawundu, a blue figure with her arms outstretched to the sky symbolizes freedom and womanhood. But to her creators, she also represents something more personal.

Whether it was idolizing her pulmonologist uncle in the family’s native Dominican Republic as a young child or advocating for her parents during doctors’ visits in the South Bronx as a teenager, Angelica Lopez can trace her “why” for wanting to become a physician to family.

President Holloway's internship initiative puts focus on engaging with and serving others.

Rutgers released a new plan, supported by University Equity and Inclusion, that includes goals set by each chancellor-led area – Rutgers-New Brunswick, Rutgers-Newark, Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences – and actions to reach them.

The Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (CACP) celebrated the Beloved Community Award recipients in the Honors College Courtyard on April 20.

Recognizing that change starts at the executive level, Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway has signed on as one of nearly 2,000 leaders who have collectively committed to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace through CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion.