In 2021–2022, campus directors are supporting a number of intellectual and institutional research projects designed to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice in academia and other educational settings.
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 Kim Butler, Akissi Britton, and Shantee Rosado, School of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
Led by Charity Anderson, Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, School of Arts and Sciences–Newark, Rutgers–Newark
Prisons are monuments to trauma and public school programming for young adults twenty-one and under who have not graduated from high school is especially challenging. The Initiative for Education and Justice (IEJ) at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education and the New Jersey Department of Corrections seek to create a year-long working group to address the challenges that trauma poses for incarcerated young adults and their instructors.
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. Click to view the new AIR Collaborative website with photos and videos, thanks to Leona Cheung MFA MGSA.