Rutgers University - Newark
Newark, NJ
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RU-N has invested many resources to bettering Newark including:
- The Cornwall Center facilitating the Newark City of Learning Collaborative, a cross-sector partnership to significantly raise postsecondary educational attainment in Greater Newark.
- The creation, under the leadership of Chancellor Diner, of the Office of University Community Partnerships, embodies RU-N’s first institutionalized efforts to broker connections between the university and Greater Newark communities, addressing critical needs across the age spectrum from early literacy to teen parenting to healthy aging, among others.
- Faculty from supply chain management collaborating with local industries and agencies as well as the Brookings Institution to document the robustness and still untapped potential in Newark’s manufacturing sector.
- Criminal justice and policing experts working with law enforcement at all levels to improve safety and security in Newark.
- Law faculty and students advocating for local families struggling to assure that their children with disabilities have access to the supports needed for them to succeed in school.
- Faculty, staff, and students working on the Promise Neighborhood project with community-based organizations to build comprehensive support networks for families in Newark’s most challenged neighborhoods.
- Scholars of urban entrepreneurship advising local startups to launch, revitalizing downtown.
The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) at RU-N is one of the first centers of its kind to integrate scholarly works with private capital, government, and non-profit sectors to develop citywide resources and bring renewed economic growth and vitality through urban entrepreneurship. The center promotes and fosters a new generation of urban entrepreneurs who actively seek a “socially conscious urban renaissance.” Their mission is to build a world-class research-driven, teaching and practitioner-oriented urban entrepreneurship and economic development program that will transform the economy of the City of Newark, New Jersey, and other urban centers; create wealth in urban communities; and be a model for all urban universities.
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