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State of Affairs with Steve Adubato

Steve Adubato speaks with Timothy K. Eatman, Ph.D., Inaugural Dean & Professor, Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University-Newark. Eatman explains the Honors Living-Learning Community program, the role it plays in facilitating success among Newark students and the unfortunate reality traditional learning models too often lead to talent being overlooked. View it here.

2021 HLLC Graduation and Leadership Awards Ceremony

While we could not celebrate in person to congratulate the award recipients and class of 2021, we gathered virtually! If you missed it or would like to revisit, you can access our ceremony video here: The HLLC Graduation and Leadership Awards: Speakers: HLLC Team: Timothy Eatman, Marta Esquilin, Engelbert Santana, Tsihai Hanson, Rabeya Rahman, Jennifer […]

Meet 2021 HLLC Graduates

Meet a few 2021 HLLC Graduates: Every year Rutgers-Newark students have inspiring stories to tell about their journeys to graduation and their aspirations for life beyond Rutgers-Newark. Read the stories of a few HLLC Scholars of Rutgers-Newark’s Class of 2021! Vivian A. Peralta Santana Taisha Blanc Guadalupe Urizar Bryant Gomez

HLLC on the Garden State Guarantee Program

RU-N Chancellor Nancy Cantor joined Governor Murphy for a press conference on the Garden State Guarantee program yesterday along with RU-N Honors Living Learning Program students Emmanuel Basoah, Favour Izuchukwu, and Andrea Markey, and future RU-N grad student Auzhane Easterling. Watch here.

Role Reversal: When Did a Student Teach You Something?

In a recent piece on Association of American Colleges & Universities Liberal Education magazine, Dean Timothy Eatman highlights HLLC Scholar, Vivian A. Peralta Santana: Role Reversal: When Did a Student Teach You Something? Despite all I learned after years in leadership roles at Imagining America—a robust network of publicly engaged scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers—I still […]

HLLC Graduation and Leadership Awards Ceremony

While we could not celebrate in person to congratulate the award recipients and class of 2020, we gathered virtually! Visit our Graduation 2020 folder for: The HLLC Graduation and Leadership ceremony Featuring: Timothy Eatman (Dean) Alexa Sanchez (MC) EVC Sherri-Ann Butterfield (Speaker) Anna Williams, Ty-Lynn Johnson, Laura Gonzalez (Senior Speakers) Community Affirmations Musical Performances (South/Paw, […]

Rutgers – Newark Impact Report

“The following report provides a small sample of stories illustrating the impact that you and other donors are making. I hope you will take pride in knowing you make a difference. With your continued support, we know even more inspiring stories await to be written.” – Nancy Cantor, Chancellor Rutgers University-Newark Read the Rutgers Foundation’s […]

Stories from the Pandemic

Stories from the Pandemic is a collaboration project between the Newark Board of Education and Newest Americans, a storytelling project about migration and identity based out of Rutgers University-Newark, created in partnership with Talking Eyes Media. Life under quarantine does not mean complete social isolation. Stories illustrate how we are all impacted by the pandemic, […]

Rutgers-Newark Aligns with United Airlines to Support Students’ Travel for Educational Experiences

Rutgers University–Newark (RU-N) is excited to be working with United Airlines on a commitment for travel support of its Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) scholars and debate team members. For both programs, travel is a critical component of the students’ educational success. With this generous gift, United Airlines becomes a lead corporate partner in ensuring RU-N […]

Bank of America Commits $1M to Rutgers-Newark’s Honors Living-Learning Community

  Rendering of the new Honors Living-Learning Community building coming soon to Rutgers-Newark. NEWARK, NJ — Bank of America has committed $1 million over a four-year period, commencing fall 2019, to support transfer students in the Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) at Rutgers University–Newark. The gift will provide assistance to HLLC transfer students as well as […]

Cultivating Publicly Engaged Scholars: Rutgers University–Newark Is Revolutionalizing Honors and Leveraging Local Talent

In a recent piece on Association of American Colleges & Universities Liberal Education magazine, Deans Marta Esquilin and Timothy Eatman highlight the Honors Living-Learning Community: Gabrielle Vera is a member of the 2017 Honors Living-Learning Cohort and will spend the fall term of her junior year in a study abroad program at Oxford Brookes University […]

Prudential, Rutgers-Newark Partner to Cultivate Newark Change Makers

Newark, NJ (May 7, 2019)—Rutgers University-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor announced today that Prudential Financial has committed $10 million to the Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) at Rutgers-Newark – the largest donation ever to Rutgers-Newark – to create the Prudential Scholars Program for Newark residents. The gift will create cohorts of Newark residents in the HLLC known […]

Innovative Course Makes Data Science Accessible to All

Data is everywhere these days, routinely touching our lives as we surf the web, use our phone, drive our car or do any number of tasks. But data literacy and coding are usually relegated to the precincts of computer science departments. RU-N is seeking to change that by teaching basic data skills to undergraduates from […]

Rutgers-Newark Honors Program Takes New Approach to Developing Citizen Leaders

In a recent piece on Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, LaMont Jones highlights the Honors Living-Learning Community: As a star sprinter on the track team at Christ the King Preparatory School in Newark, Christopher Latonnel was recruited by numerous colleges before putting Duke University in his top two. But Latonnel ultimately chose Rutgers University-Newark. He […]

Rally for the 94%

Rally for the 94% by the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice On October 27th, I attended a Rally held at the same church that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at 50 years ago to the year. Why? For the 94%. First off, I want to speak as to how the rally was brought to […]

Cultivating Diverse Humanities Leaders

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards Rutgers-Newark $1.5 million to revolutionize humanities education The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Rutgers University – Newark Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) a three-year, $1.5 million grant to help cultivate the next diverse generation of humanities scholars. “The number of professors from underrepresented groups in American higher education remains […]

Confessions of A Leadership Coach

Confessions of A Leadership Coach Edited by HLLC scholar, Stephanie Avila, reveals the story of RU-N alumnae, Elizabeth Rodriguez, in her role as a leadership coach for Braven. She describes how people can benefit from gaining leadership skills in essentially any career path and how her life has improved, “They have changed my world for […]

Art & Isms

Art & Isms The Art & Isms podcast series focuses on youth and young adults from the African diaspora as they express themselves through poetry, art, music, fashion, and activism. The podcast showcases the resiliency and activism of today’s generation. Performing the interviews, HLLC scholars, Mariah Matthews, and Stephanie Avila aim to convey the idea […]

PBS NewsHour

Watch as Rutgers University – Newark’s Honors Living-Learning Community is featured on PBS NewsHour (broadcasted on October 17, 2018) in a featured piece on how we’re redefining academic excellence, as our students study critical social issues and prove their commitment to becoming change agents!

New York Times: An Honors College That Honors Grit

David Kirp, in The New York Times, writes about the Honors Living Learning Community at Rutgers University-Newark, and how it serves as a nationwide model for universities.

The Hechinger Report: Focus on RU-N’s HLLC and Honors College

Two honors programs at Rutgers University – Newark, the Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) and the Honors College, offers students from the Newark area a reason to stay in the city.

Black on Black

Come and join scholars Kristie Dotson and Geci Karuri-Sebina in a conversation about the experiences of being a black student amid issues of race, class, gender, and nationality on Wednesday, April 11 at 6pm in Robeson Campus Center, Room 226.

Brick by Brick

Listen to the latest Newest Americans podcast about “Brick by Brick.” A collaboration between Artist Adrienne Wheeler, writer/poet Paula Neves, Dr. Tim Raphael and scholars from the Honors Living and Learning Community (HLLC) at Rutgers University—Newark.

HLLC Residence Hall: The New Building

RU-N has made great progress in our ambitious endeavor to realize a key element of our strategic plan and effectively revolutionize honors with our Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC). Indeed, we are now on the cusp of the HLLC building becoming a reality. We identified a developer and architect to create the HLLC building. RBH Group, […]

The Atlantic Article: Focus on RU-N and HLLC

Rutgers University – Newark and HLLC were recently focused in the Atlantic’s article, “A University That Prioritizes the Students Who Are Often Ignored.” Rutgers commencement spring 2016Mel Evans / AP NEWARK, N.J.—Protests focused on entrenched racism rocked campuses around the country this year. Many top colleges enroll small numbers of black students, and the four-year […]