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Exciting news from Rutgers New Brunswick: a new Honors College, along with its own central living/learning community, is welcoming approximately 500 “of the highest achieving students from New Jersey,”…

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Rutgers New Brunswick Dedicates Residential Honors College

TapInto.net

Rutgers University-New Brunswick Honors College, located on the university’s historic College Avenue Campus, is home to more than 500 high achieving students...

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Rutgers Honors College Facility

WMBC-TV

As Rutgers University prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, it now has opened a new facility that expands honors education.

Rutgers Cuts Ribbon on Honors College Facility

Andrew Sheldon, NJBiz.com

Faculty, students and state representatives, including Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, gathered Friday in New Brunswick for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Rutgers University's College Avenue campus in New Brunswick. Rutgers University President Robert Barchi said the new Honors College will help retain the best students within the state.

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Rutgers University-New Brunswick Dedicates Residential Honors College

New Jersey Business

New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno and Rutgers President Robert Barchi hosted the dedication of the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Honors College…The Honors College redefines interdisciplinary learning by inviting first-year students in the sciences, humanities and Rutgers’ various professional schools to live and work together to examine global issues. 

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Rutgers Begins 250th Anniversary Celebration

MyCenralJersey.com

One of the most visible signs of Rutgers’ ambitions is the new Honors College at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, designed as a living/learning community and home to more than 500 first-year students...

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New Honors College at Rutgers University-New Brunswick Home to Academic Superstars

Rutgers Today

A community where dance majors interact with food science majors, future pharmacists share dorm space with tomorrow's business titans.

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Honors College Opens at Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Mike Kennedy, American School & University

The honors program and the living-learning community to house first-year students were created by Rutgers in an effort to keep more of New Jersey's high-achieving students attending school in the state, as well as attract top students from out of state…

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Sweeney ‘Impressed’ with Rutgers Use of State’s Higher Ed Bond

Adam Clark | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Though Sweeney was impressed, he said the state's investment should not be measured only in buildings. He hopes the updated facilities go a long way toward ending New Jersey's annual exodus of high school graduates to colleges in other states. "The one thing you don't want to do is export them," Sweeney said of students. "They are our future.”

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Sweeney, Smith Tour New Facilities at Rutgers

Cheryl Makin | MyCentralJersey.com

“These new laboratories, lecture halls and residence dorms let students both in the state and around the world know that New Jersey is committed to providing the greatest educational experience possible,” Sweeney said.

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