Educational Justice: Grants and Projects

Led by Project Co-Director Paul Boxer (Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark), this project examines the transition from high school to university for first-year students entering Rutgers-Newark. Interviews will be conducted with 100 students and one caregiver about their experiences during this transition. The project focuses on lived experiences of social and financial continuity and change, and the nature of support provided by families, to understand how “launching” prepares students for success.

The “Conversation Series” involves readings centered on race, equity, access, and retention. Five guest speakers will lead in-class conversations on their research and personal dispositions to diversity, equity and inclusion. The aim is to challenge graduate students, who are also in-service music educators to explore perspectives from diverse scholarship and broaden their views on why music education matters. Led by Marjoris Regus, Asst. Prof. of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts. 

Clemente Veterans’ Initiative (CVI) Newark is a free college course in the humanities that explores themes of war and reconciliation through philosophy, literature, art and US history, and writing. CVI Newark is based on the idea that the insights and skills offered by studying the humanities can provide us with crucial tools for gaining control over our lives and becoming more engaged in our communities. Led by Charity Anderson, Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers–Newark.

Led by John Hulme, Writers House, English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; John Keller, coLAB Arts / Mason Gross, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; Chris Rasmussen, History, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Dan Swern, coLAB Arts / Mason Gross, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; Andrew Urban, American Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; Dara Walker, African American Studies, History, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University 

Led by Lacey Hunter and Christina Strasburger (Rutgers University-Newark), TAE is an initiative organized through the collaboration of educators, scholars, and advocates dedicated to social justice and inclusivity. TAE’s educational programming brings students, teachers, scholars, community organizers, and researchers together to promote sustainable inclusivity in classrooms everywhere. Our workshops aim to help educators develop pedagogical methods that support safe environments for all learners

Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness is a multi-year project of the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick exploring how the discipline informs global, intersectional struggles against anti-Blackness. We are also examining how the interventions of Africana Studies intersect with approaches to anti-Blackness from other academic disciplines. Led by Kim Butler, Akissi Britton, and Shantee Rosado, School of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick

AIR Collaborative’s mission is to pursue creative placemaking to foster spatial justice through multidisciplinary research and curricular agendas that benefit and strengthen the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus and surrounding local communities. Led by Anette Freytag, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick; Julia Ritter, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick; Arts Integrated Research (AIR) Collaborative.