Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion

03/09/2015

They’re called Los Bateyes, the ramshackle communities of sugar cane workers and their families that are home to some of the Dominican Republic’s most impoverished souls.

11/10/2014

'A goal of all my courses is not just to understand a problem, but to do something about it.'
– Sarah Rosenfield, associate professor of sociology

Sociologist Sarah Rosenfield has spent her career studying unhappiness – why people become depressed, anxious or aggressive, and what effect their mental state has on their relations with other people. One day, she decided she needed a break from all that. Why not study happiness?

10/27/2014

A political studies major at Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences with minors in history and African studies, Demeri spent the spring 2014 semester in the West African nation as part of the Center for Global Education: CIEE Study Abroad Program.

Rutgers senior Derek J. Demeri, who has lived openly as a gay man since he was a high school sophomore in Hawthorne, explored uncharted territory last year when he studied in Ghana, where same-sex relations are criminalized, and concern for his own physical safety was a frequent refrain.

10/22/2014

It’s hard to say which has changed more since the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival moved to Newark in 2010: the city or the festival.

10/21/2014

"According to Victoria Chase, clinical associate professor and chair for clinical programs, in about 10 years more than 6,000 people have received domestic violence legal assistance from Rutgers Law–Camden"

Across the nation, October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Each May at Rutgers–Camden, when law students graduate they embark on their legal professions already having made some worlds safer for hundreds of local residents, thanks to work done in the school’s domestic violence programs the…

10/21/2014

Junot Diaz RC'92
Author, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize)

10/20/2014

Honoring our Distinguished Alumni

10/17/2014

Natalie Morales
News Anchor
Rutgers College Class of 1994

Natalie Morales RC’94 Broadcast Journalist. Natalie Morales joined NBC's popular Today show as a national correspondent in 2006. In 2007, she was named a co-anchor of the show's fourth hour; she also fills in regularly at the news desk. Prior to signing on with Today, Morales was an anchor and correspondent at MSNBC since March 2002. In these national roles, she has contributed to NBC News coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino and the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, as well as several major breaking news stories including Hurricane Katrina and recovery efforts, the Tsunami disaster, the passing of Pope John Paul II, the 2004 Presidential election, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and the Columbia space shuttle explosion. Hispanic Magazine named Morales a "Top Hispanic to Watch" in 2005, and a "Top Trendsetter" in 2003. Morales also has local news experience; she was a morning co-anchor and correspondent at NBC's WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut. She also co-hosted and reported for the Emmy-nominated documentary Save Our Sound, a joint production with WNBC-TV New York about preserving the Long Island Sound. Morales, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, was born in Taiwan and spent much of the first 18 years of her life living overseas in Panama, Brazil, and Spain as a self-proclaimed "Air Force brat."

10/17/2014

William Augustus Hobart.
United States Vice President.
Rutgers College Class of 1863

10/16/2014

"In a recent survey taken by the National Gay and Le***an Task Force, 43 percent of LGBT faculty members and students reported they consider their campus to be homophobic, but Norgard’s experience has been different. He said he has always felt welcomed and safe at Rutgers"

Academic institutions are recognized for taking steps to create environments and policies that meet the needs of students with a wide variety of gender and sexual identities, but some groups still lag behind. Rutgers, however, ranks above the average in providing services to every sexual identity, a…

10/16/2014

'The main reason we are doing this is discrimination and bias look different today. It is the little things that when they build upon one another still have a similar affect to experiencing flat out bias. Even if it is not intentional, we all have a role to play.'

– Zaneta Rago

Brianna Shaw is tired of the comments some people make when they talk to her: You’re pretty for a black girl. You’re smart for a black girl. You're nice for a black girl.

10/15/2014

Our Faces....

Spotted around campus - photos by Mahirah Syed