Rutgers University–Camden is one of three regional campuses of

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. It is located in

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. Founded in 1929 as the South Jersey Law School, Rutgers–Camden began as an amalgam of the South Jersey Law School and the College of South Jersey. It is the southernmost of the three regional campuses of Rutgers—the others being located in

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and

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. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".

Academics

Rutgers–Camden is

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by the

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. It has nearly 40 majors and 50 minors plus special programs, an Honors College, hands-on research with faculty mentors, study abroad, internships, civic learning, and various graduate and advanced professional programs. The

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follows a 4-4 schedule of two four-course semesters, fall and spring. During the winter study term, students study various courses outside of typical curriculum for 3 weeks in January. Rutgers students often take the winter study term to pursue internships or work on intensive research projects.

College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest academic unit at Rutgers–Camden. Students enjoy the advantages of a personalized liberal arts education as well as the benefits of studying at a campus of a research university, particularly the opportunity to work closely with distinguished faculty. Majors and programs include studies in the humanities, the arts, the social sciences, and the natural and physical sciences, including those in traditional liberal arts fields as well as more professionally oriented courses of study. The College of Arts and Sciences also has a highly selective Honors College, which offers a challenging academic program that includes seminars, junior and senior year projects, and extracurricular activities.

Graduate and Professional Programs

The Graduate School offers 14 programs granting master's degrees in several

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disciplines including history, English literature, languages, and creative writing, as well as advanced degrees in the biological, chemical, computer, and mathematical sciences, nursing, psychology, social work, political science and public policy, and Doctoral programs in Childhood Studies, Computational Biology, and Public Affairs with emphasis on community development. An MBA program is offered through the Rutgers School of Business-Camden.

Visual and Performing Arts

The Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts provides performances, exhibitions, education programs, and community projects. The Fine Arts Building on the Rutgers–Camden campus houses the Walter K. Gordon Theater, Black Box Theater, and the Stedman Gallery. The Gordon Theater is the home venue for the Collingswood-based Symphony in C.

The Rutgers School of Business–Camden

The Rutgers School of Business is accredited by

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International, is an American professional organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to ...

(AACSB).

The Rutgers Law School

The

Rutgers Law School Rutgers Law School is the law school of Rutgers University, with classrooms in Newark and Camden, New Jersey. It is the largest public law school and the 10th largest law school, overall, in the United States. Each class in the three-year J.D. pr ...

is a center of legal education, with two campuses—in Camden and Newark. Its faculty is internationally recognized in a number of fields including constitutional, criminal, health, and corporate law. Its alumni are leading members of the bar in public and private practice settings throughout the nation. The school is well represented among the state and federal judiciary. The law school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools and is on the list of approved schools of the American Bar Association. It offers a three-year course of study for full-time students and a four-year, part-time program leading to the awarding of the Juris Doctor degree."

The Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden

The Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden offers curricula that integrate nursing knowledge and clinical practice, including baccalaureate programs for traditional students, registered nurse students, and second-degree students; a doctor of nursing practice program; and certification in school nursing and wound ostomy continence nursing.

Libraries

The

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Library develops and maintains access to materials that support undergraduate and graduate coursework and research. A designated Federal Depository for the First U.S. Congressional District, the library serves as a public resource for the citizens of New Jersey. Library faculty deliver comprehensive support for reference and research questions in their subject areas. Through the Paul Robeson Library, the Rutgers–Camden community may access the global resources of the Rutgers University Library System. The Robeson library also serves as the academic library for students and faculty at the Camden campuses of

Camden County College Camden County College (CCC) is a public community college in Camden County, New Jersey. Camden County College has its main campus in the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township, with satellite locations in Camden, Cherry Hill and Sicklerv ...

and

Rowan University Rowan University is a public research university in Glassboro, New Jersey, with a medical campus in Stratford and medical and academic campuses in Camden. It was founded in 1923 as Glassboro Normal School on a site donated by 107 residents. ...

. Law Library One of New Jersey's largest law libraries serves as a research facility for law students, legal practitioners, and the general public. The Law Library houses a collection of over 440,000 books and other materials, and the collection is comprehensive in its holdings of American, English, Canadian, and foreign legal periodicals. The Law Library is located on three floors of the Law School Building. A selective federal depository, the Rutgers–Camden Law Library hosts numerous online collections of public documents related to federal and New Jersey courts.

Campus

Dorms and student housing

Undergraduate and graduate dorms are located at Third and Cooper Streets, and a graduate residence hall is located at 330 Cooper Street. The twelve-story residence hall is the tallest building on campus. Many students live off campus in Camden's Cooper Grant neighborhood, in

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, or in surrounding suburbs such as Collingswood and

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Alumni House

The Rutgers Alumni House is located at 312 Cooper Street, in a historic mansion built in 1809, and serves the alumni of all four Rutgers University campuses.

Writers House

The Rutgers Writers House is located at 305 Cooper Street, in a house historically known as the Dr. Henry Genet Taylor House. The house is home to the university's MFA in Creative Writing Program, as well as the journals ''Cooper Street'' and '' StoryQuarterly''. The Writers House hosts writers, scholars, and others for various programs.

Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts

North of the campus green, The Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts houses the Stedman Art Gallery, the Gordon Theater, and the Black Box theater.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities

Rutgers-Camden is home to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH), a public humanities learning and professional center which publishes the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, hosts fellowships, and sponsors research projects on the Mid-Atlanic region.

Transportation services

Cooper Street-Rutgers University Station

Regional rail access to the university is provided by the PATCO's

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station, located two blocks from center campus, and the RiverLINE's Cooper Street - Rutgers University station. The

Walter Rand Transportation Center The Walter Rand Transportation Center is a transportation hub located at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Broadway in Camden, New Jersey. It is served by the River Line, New Jersey Transit buses and Greyhound intercity buses and also includes t ...

is located a few blocks from campus, which provides access to several NJTransit bus lines. Additionally, the seasonally operated

RiverLink Ferry The RiverLink Ferry is a passenger ferry service in the United States. The ferry crosses the Delaware River, connecting the Camden Waterfront, in Camden, New Jersey, with Penn's Landing, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ferry operates daily f ...

running between Camden and Philadelphia has a stop at the nearby

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. As a service to students of the university, the Rutgers–Camden Police Department provides "a walking security escort for individuals to their vehicles; campus housing; the PATCO Hi-Speed Line station at Fifth and Market St.; and the Walter Rand Transportation Center on Broadway". The campus also runs shuttle buses with stops throughout the campus.

Athletics

The Rutgers–Camden's athletic teams are called the Scarlet Raptors. The university is a member in the

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level of the

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(NCAA), primarily competing in the

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(NJAC) for most of its sports since the 1985–86 academic year;Rutgers–Camden official athletics website
Retrieved on 2017-01-10. except men's golf and women's volleyball, which the NJAC does not sponsor either. In those two sports, the Scarlet Raptors are members of the

United East Conference The United East Conference (UEC), formerly known as the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC), is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the Mid-Atlantic region of th ...

(UEC) for men's golf and the

Eastern College Athletic Conference The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location fro ...

(ECAC) for women's volleyball. Rutgers–Camden competes in 17 intercollegiate varsity sports (8 for men and 9 for women): Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field (indoor and outdoor); while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, baseball, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball.

Achievements

In 2006, Rutgers–Camden earned its first NCAA Division III national championship when the softball team defeated top-ranked and two-time defending champion St. Thomas (Minn.), 3–2. Rutgers–Camden set program marks with a 47–5 record and a 29-game winning streak. In 2012 and 2013, Rutgers–Camden student-athlete Tim VanLiew won back-to-back

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in the

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. He won his first title on May 26, 2012, with a throw of at Claremont–Mudd–Scripps in Claremont, California. Nearly a year to the day of his first title, he not only defended his national javelin title, but he did so in record-breaking fashion. VanLiew's throw of set the all-time NCAA Division III record for the new javelin, while shattering the NCAA Championship record, the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse stadium mark, and VanLiew's old Rutgers–Camden program record in the process. Rutgers–Camden's men's soccer team went a school-record 37 consecutive games without a loss, a record that spanned the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The team compiled a 32–0–5 record during that time, the eighth-longest streak in NCAA Division III men's soccer history. The team earned a trip to the NCAA Division III National Championship for the first time in program history by defeating Loras College, 3–2, in overtime on Dec. 6, 2013, in San Antonio, Texas. The unbeaten streak came to an end on Dec. 7, 2013, in a 2–1 double-overtime loss to Messiah College in the NCAA Division III National Championship. The men's soccer team won three consecutive NJAC titles and in 2013 finished ranked No. 3 in the D3soccer.com Top 25 and No. 4 in the NSCAA national poll.

Student life

Student body

Approximately 6,600 undergraduate and graduate students attend Rutgers–Camden. Nearly 600 students live on campus. Renowned for its commitment for diversity, the student body is made up of students from 29 states and 33 countries. There are many clubs that represent various ethnic and racial groups, various religious denominations, political beliefs, and an LGBTQ club. There have been over 43,000 graduates as of 2016

Student media

* ''The Gleaner'' independent weekly newspaper; includes Features, Arts & Entertainment, Commentary, Weekly Word, Comics/Horoscope, Sports * WCCR-Camden Internet-based radio station

Scholarly journals and publications

* Cooper Street * Mickle Street Review * Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy (J.L.P.P.) * Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion *

Rutgers Law Journal The ''Rutgers Law Journal'' was a quarterly, student-run law review published at the former Rutgers School of Law–Camden, in Camden, New Jersey. It was the flagship law review among the three accredited law journals at Rutgers School of Law–C ...

* StoryQuarterly * The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia * Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities

Clubs and other organizations

There are over 75 clubs and organizations on campus including: * African Students Association * American Medical Students Association * Art Students League * Asian Cultural Society * Black Student Union * Campus Crusade for Christ * Chess Club * Club 26 * Economics Society * French Club * German Club * History Club * International Students Association * Jewish Student Union * Korean Students Association * Lambda Alliance * Latin American Student Association * Living Branch Ministries * New Jersey PIRG and Water Watch * Newman Club * Math League * MFA Creative Writers Organization * Muslim Student Association * Philosophy Society * Political Science Society * Pre-dental Society * Pre-law Society * Rotaract Club * RU Singers * Rutgers Association of South Asia * Student Nurses Association * Spanish Club * Underground: A Social Justice Organization

Notable alumni

* Wayne R. Bryant, J.D. 1972 — New Jersey Senator (1995-2008) *

William T. Cahill William Thomas Cahill (June 25, 1912July 1, 1996) was an American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 46th governor of New Jersey from 1970 to 1974. A Republican, Cahill previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, repr ...

, J.D. 1937 46th

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(1970-1974) *

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, attended, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing New Jersey's 12th District. * James J. Florio, J.D. 1967, 49th

(1990–1994) * Frank J. Giordano, Class of 1972, President and CEO of the Philly Pops Orchestra, former president of the

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Charles Hallahan Charles John Hallahan (July 29, 1943 – November 25, 1997) was an American film, television, and stage actor known for his performances in ''Going in Style'', '' The Thing'', '' Cast a Deadly Spell'', and ''Dante's Peak''. He was also best know ...

, Class of 1969, actor ( The Thing,

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) * Michael B Lavery, J.D. 1989, Current Chairman of the

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and former Mayor of Hackettstown. * Kenneth LeFevre — Class of 1976, member of the

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1996–2002 *

Paul Lisicky Paul Lisicky (born July 9, 1959) is an American novelist and memoirist. He is an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, and the author of several books. Early life Paul Lisicky was born on July 9, 1959. He grew up in ...

, Class of 1983, MFA 1986, author, creative writing professor, 2016

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* Walt MacDonald, Class of 1974 — CEO of

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* Gene Muller, Class of 1977, founder and CEO of Flying Fish Brewing *

Joseph A. Mussomeli Joseph Adamo Mussomeli (born May 26, 1952) was an employee of the United States Department of State and is the former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia and the Kingdom of Cambodia. Early life Mussomeli's grandparents on both sides o ...

, J.D. 1978, former ambassador to

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and

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Daniel Nester Daniel Murlin Nester (born February 29, 1968, in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American writer, editor, and poet. Biography Nester was raised in Maple Shade Township, New Jersey. He attended high school at Camden Catholic High School in Cherry Hi ...

, Class of 1991, poet and essayist *

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, attended, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing New Jersey's 1st District. *

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, attended, Insurance executive and chairman of Cooper Health System * John C. Norcross, Class of 1980, author, psychiatrist, university professor * Brian T. Attard, Class of 2006, host of The Sports Box podcast *

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, Ph.D. 2016, political commentator and assistant professor at

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Gregory Pardlo Gregory Pardlo (born November 24, 1968) is an American poet, writer, and professor. His book ''Digest'' won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Callaloo'', '' ...

, Class of 1999, poet, recipient of the 2015

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, Class of 1989 — Academy Award nominated documentary and feature filmmaker, co-director of ''

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'' *

Dana Redd Dana L. Redd (born March 7, 1968) is an American Democratic politician who served as the Mayor of Camden, from 2010 to 2018. Redd served in the New Jersey Senate from January 8, 2008, to January 5, 2010, representing the 5th Legislative Distri ...

, Class of 1989, former Mayor of

. * Eduardo Robreno, J.D. 1978, Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Maria Rodriguez-Gregg, Class of 2013, member of the New Jersey General Assembly * Gregory M. Sleet, J.D. 1976, Federal Judge for the

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References

External links

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Official athletics website
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