Friends of Rutgers

 

In the News This Week
A Rutgers Conversation About Black History and Becoming Better Allies

Black History Month is nearing a close, but the effort to build a more inclusive community at Rutgers is just getting started and is being led in part by Enobong (Anna) Branch, senior vice president for equity at Rutgers University, and Nyeema C. Watson, vice chancellor of diversity, inclusion, and civic engagement at RU-Camden. In a recent conversation, these equity experts addressed issues that have come to the fore during this moment of racial reckoning. More.
RU Medical Faculty Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects

They were among the first in New Jersey to receive both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Read what 10 Rutgers health care professionals say about those experiences. More.

Opinion: It's Time to Stop Calling Slavery America's 'Original Sin'

RU-Newark Distinguished Professor Robert Goodman writes: The habit might seem harmless, shorthand for saying that slavery was distant, deeply embedded and bad. All history is hindsight. We often see things that people couldn't or didn't see at the time. We tell stories and offer interpretations that depend on our knowledge of events that happened between then and now. We make comparisons and all kinds of judgements. We employ metaphors. More.
RU–Camden Biz Grad Named to Global List of Leaders

Kris Kolluri, pictured, president and CEO of Cooper’s Ferry Partnership in Camden, has been selected as one of 25 business school graduates worldwide to be named to membership in the 2021 Class of Influential Leaders by AACSB International. More.
A Conversation with William Lucy

Francis Ryan, a labor historian in the RU-New Brunswick School of Management and Labor Relations, interviews Lucy, the union leader who coined the iconic phrase -- I Am A Man -- during the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. More.