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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY–NEWARK DRIVING INNOVATION THROUGH DIVERSITY & SOCIAL MOBILITY Rutgers University–Newark is a leading urban research university that leverages diversity and high-impact scholarship to cultivate the talent essential to transform communities and change the world. An anchor institution in our home city, we are not just in but of Newark. The RU-N community has long recognized that our location is both a defining influence in our story and a distinctive strength. Our long-standing recognition as one of the most diverse research universities in the United States reflects the diversity of our city and region.
Rutgers-Newark (foreground) is proudly embedded in the heart of New Jersey’s largest city and cultural capital
OUR STORY We attract and cultivate globally competitive talent on many levels, from generations of students hungry for the opportunities afforded by a first-rate higher education in a major American urban center, to faculty who vigorously embrace the opportunity to produce high-impact scholarship and engage the community while preparing these students for professional success and informed citizenship. Our location is also a magnet for professional staff committed to advancing our research, pedagogy, and social impact within an inclusive campus culture focused on excellence. These factors underlie RutgersNewark’s perennial recognition as one of the nation’s most effective universities at facilitating social mobility.
Undergraduate students using a remote sensor to see below the surface of New Jersey’s Meadowlands areas that capture much of the scholarly expertise and civic-oriented interests in anchor institution work: • Building Inclusive Educational Pathways to Increase Postsecondary Attainment • Achieving Equitable Growth through Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development • The Arts and Culture • Strong, Healthy, and Safe Neighborhoods • Science and the Urban Environment
We seek to forge mutually beneficial, sustainable partnerships that pool the talent of our faculty, staff, and students with that of experts across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, which not only makes for better, more creative solutions to the grand challenges facing our world, but creates more effective learning environments. Our work toward this end is organized under five broad
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