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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (also known as
Rutgers University), is the largest institution for higher education in the
state of
New Jersey. It was originally chartered as
Queen's College in
1766 and is the
eighth-oldest college in the
United States. Rutgers was originally a
private university affiliated with the
Dutch Reformed Church and admitting only male students, but evolved into and is presently a
nonsectarian,
coeducational
public research university that makes no religious demands of its students. Rutgers is one of only two
colonial colleges that later became public universities. (The other is the
College of William and Mary.)
Rutgers was designated The State University of New Jersey by acts of the
New Jersey Legislature in 1945 and 1956. The university offers more than 100 distinct
bachelor, 100
master, and 80
doctoral and
professional degree programs across 175 academic departments, 29 degree-granting schools and colleges, 16 of which offer graduate programs of study.
History
Shortly after the
College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was established in 1766, ministers of the
Dutch Reformed Church, seeking autonomy in ecclesiastical affairs in the American colonies sought to establish a college to train those who wanted to become
ministers within the church. Through several years of effort by Rev.
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691–1747) and Rev.
Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736–1790), later the college's first president,
Queen's College was chartered on
10 November 1766.
The original purpose of Queen's College was to "
educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences" and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church When the Revolutionary War broke out and taverns were suspected by the British as being hotbeds of rebel activity, the college abandoned the tavern and held classes in private homes. The college's third president, the Rev.
Ira Condict, laid the cornerstone on
April 27,
1809. Shortly after, the
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, founded in 1784, relocated from
Brooklyn, New York, to New Brunswick, and shared facilities with Queen's College (and the
Queen's College Grammar School, as all three institutions were then overseen by the
Reformed Church in America). Shortly after, the
University of Newark (1935) was merged with Rutgers in 1946, as was the
College of South Jersey in 1950, and these two institutions were transformed into Rutgers University's campuses in
Newark and
Camden. In light of the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s, Rutgers, along with many of the older American institutions (including
Princeton and
Yale) became co-educational. On
September 10,
1970, after much debate, the Board of Governors voted to admit women into the previously all-male
Rutgers College. The trustees constitute chiefly an advisory body to the Board of Governors and are the fiduciary overseers of the property and assets of the University that existed before the institution became the State University of New Jersey in 1945. The initial reluctance of the trustees (still acting as a private corporate body) to cede control of certain business affairs to the state government for direction and oversight caused the state to establish the Board of Governors in 1956. Today, the Board of Governors maintains much of the corporate control of the University.
The members of the Board of Trustees are voted upon by different constituencies or appointed. "Two faculty and two students are elected by the University Senate as nonvoting representatives. The 59 voting members are chosen in the following way as mandated by state law: 28 charter members (of whom at least three shall be women), 20 alumni members nominated by the Nominating Committee of the Board of Trustees, and five public members appointed by the governor of the state with confirmation by the New Jersey State Senate. The six members of the Board of Governors appointed by the governor also serve as members of the Board of Trustees. Of the 28 charter seats, three are reserved for students with full voting rights."
The
president of Rutgers University, chosen by and answerable to the Trustees and Governors, sits as an
ex-officio member of both governing boards. He, as the chief administrator of the university, is charged with its day-to-day operations. Since 2002, the president of Rutgers University is
Richard Levis McCormick (born 1947).
Academics
Profile
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is a leading national research university and is unique as the only university in the nation that's a
colonial chartered college (1766), a
land-grant institution (1864), and a
state university (1945/1956). Rutgers is accredited by the
Commission on Higher Education of the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (1921), and in 1989, became a member of the
Association of American Universities, an organization of the 62 leading research universities in
North America.
A
Public Ivy, Rutgers University was ranked 39th worldwide and 43rd within the United States in the 2005
Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Institute of Higher Education at
Shanghai Jiao Tong University. According to the
Washington Monthly's 2006 rankings, Rutgers ranks 53rd in the United States.
The Top American Research Universities an annual statistical report by The Center at the
University of Florida ranks Rutgers 39th. In the 2007
U.S. News & World Report ranking of American national universities, Rutgers is ranked as the third best public university in the
Northeastern United States and 59th in the ranking's "National Universities" category.
Eleven of Rutgers' graduate departments are ranked by the National Research Council in the top 25 among all universities:
Philosophy (2nd),
Geology Ranked 9th Nationally based on
NSF funding 9th,
Geography (13th),
Statistics (17th),
English (17th),
Mathematics (19th),
Art History (20th),
Physics (20th),
History (20th)
Comparative Literature (22nd),
French (22nd), and
Materials Science Engineering (25th).
Both
Rutgers School of Law - Newark and
Rutgers School of Law - Camden are ranked as Top 100 Law Schools by U.S. News and World Report.
The
Rutgers Business School is ranked 39th in the
Wall Street Journal's Regional Ranking of Top Business Schools.
The Philosophy Department ranked first in 2002–04 tied with
New York University and Princeton University, and second in 2004–06 (NYU was first, Princeton 3rd, Oxford 4th) in the
Philosophical Gourmet's biennial report on
Philosophy programs in the English-speaking world.
According to U.S. News & World Report, in the top 25 among all universities: Food Science (2nd)
Library Science (6th),
Drama/
Theater (12th),
Mathematics (16th),
English (18th),
History (19th, with the subspecialty of African-American History ranked 4th and Women’s History ranked 1st),
Applied Mathematics (21st) and
Physics (24th).
Admissions and financial aid
U.S. News & World Report considers the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus of Rutgers University to be a "more selective" school in terms of the rigour of its admissions processes. 56% of undergraduate applicants are accepted. In comparison, 62% of applicants to nearby
Pennsylvania State University (for the University Park campus) and 47% of applicants to the
University of Delaware are accepted. Average scores for the
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of enrolling students at Rutgers range from 530–630 on the critical reading section, 560–670 for the mathematics section, and 530-640 for the writing section. Admitted applicants to nearby Pennsylvania State University average scores between from 530–640 on the verbal section and 570–680 on the math section; the University of Delaware's student body averages between 550–640 verbal and 560–660 math.
As a state university, Rutgers charges two separate rates for tuition and fees depending on whether an enrolled student is a resident of the
State of
New Jersey (in-state) or not (out-of-state). The
Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning estimates that costs in-state student of attending Rutgers would amount to $18,899 for an undergraduate living on-campus and $22,395 for a graduate student. For an out-of-state student, the costs rise to $26,497 and $27,476 respectively.
Libraries and museums
The Rutgers University library system consists of 26 libraries and centers located on the University's three campuses, housing a collection of over 10.5 million holdings, including 3,522,359 volumes, 4,517,726 microforms, 2,544,126 documents, and subscriptions to 42,875 periodicals, and ranking among the nation's top research libraries. The
American Library Association ranks the Rutgers University Library system as the 44th largest library in the United States in terms of volumes held.
The
Archibald S. Alexander Library, in
New Brunswick, is the oldest and the largest library in Rutgers. It houses several million volumes focusing on an extensive
humanities and
social science collection. It mainly supports the sort of research done in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies. Alexander Library also maintains a large collection of government document, which contains United States, New Jersey, foreign, and international government publications. It was officially established as the Library of Science and Medicine in July of 1964 although the beginning of the development of a library for science started in 1962. The LSM currently has two administrative structures since it's a joint library serving both Rutgers and the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). UMDNJ, which was briefly known as
Rutgers Medical School, separated from Rutgers in 1970. The current character of the LSM is a university science library also serving a medical school. On the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus, in addition to Alexander Library, many individual disciplines have their own libraries, including alcohol studies,
art history,
Chemistry,
Mathematical studies,
Music, and
Physics.
Special Collections and University Archives houses the Sinclair New Jersey Collection, manuscript collection, and rare book collection, as well as the University
Archives. Although located in the Alexander Library building,
Special Collections and University Archives actually comprises a distinct unit unto itself. Located within the Alexander Library is the
East Asian Library which holds a sizable collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean monographs and periodicals. In
Newark, the
John Cotton Dana Library (which also houses the
Institute of Jazz Studies) and the
Robeson Library in
Camden, serve their respective campuses with a broad collection of volumes.
Rutgers oversees several museums and collections that are open to the public, including the
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, on the College Avenue Campus in
New Brunswick, maintains a collection of over 50,000 works of art, focusing on
Russian and
Soviet art,
French 19th-century art and
American 19th- and 20th-century art with a concentration on early-20th-century and contemporary prints. The
Rutgers University Geology Museum—located in Geology Hall next to the Old Queens Building—features exhibits on
geology and
anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of
New Jersey. The largest exhibits include a
dinosaur trackway from
Towaco, New Jersey; a
mastodon from
Salem County; and a
Ptolomaic era
Egyptian
mummy. On the campus of
Cook College, the
New Jersey Museum of Agriculture houses an extensive collection of agricultural, scientific and household tools that spans 350 years of New Jersey's history. The bulk of the collection rests on the 8,000-item Wabun C. Krueger Collection of Agricultural, Household, and Scientific Artifacts, and over 30,000 glass negatives and historic
photographs. Also located on the Cook College campus is
Rutgers Gardens, which features 50
acres (20
hectares) of horticultural, display, and
botanical gardens, as well as
arboretums.
Research
It was at Rutgers that
Selman Waksman (1888–1973) discovered several
antibiotics, including
actinomycin,
clavacin,
streptothricin,
grisein,
neomycin,
fradicin,
candicidin,
candidin, and others. Waksman, along with graduate student
Albert Schatz (1920–2005), discovered
streptomycin—a versatile antibiotic that was to be the first applied to cure
tuberculosis. For this discovery, Waksman received the
Nobel Prize for Medicine in
1952.
Rutgers continues to be on the frontlines of science and innovation, and has given birth to discoveries and inventions such as water-soluble sustained release polymers, Tetraploids, robotic hands, artificial bovine insemination, and development of the ceramic tiles for the heat shield on the
Space Shuttle. In health related field, Rutgers has the Environmental & Occupational Health Science Institute (EOHSI).
Rutgers is also home to the RCSB Protein Data bank
(External Link
), 'an information portal to Biological Macromolecular Structures' cohosted with the San Diego Supercomputer center. This database is the authoritative research tool for bioinformaticists using protein primary, secondary and tertiary structures world wide.'
Rutgers is home to the Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension office, which is run by the Agricultural and Experiment Station with the support of local government. The institution provides research & education to the local farming and agro industrial community in 19 of the 21 counties of the state and educational outreach programs offered through the
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Office of Continuing Professional Education.
Student life
Residential life
Rutgers University offers a variety of housing options. On the
New Brunswick-Piscataway campus, students are given the option of on-campus housing in both traditional
dorms or apartments. Despite some overcrowding, any student seeking on-campus housing will usually be accommodated with a space. Many Rutgers students opt to rent apartments or houses off-campus within the city of New Brunswick. Similar setups are to be found in Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-Camden, however a substantial portion of the students on those campuses commute and are enrolled on a part-time basis.
Rutgers University's three campuses are located in the culturally-diverse, redeveloping urban areas (
Newark,
Camden, and
New Brunswick) with convenient access to
New York City and
Philadelphia by either
automobile,
Amtrak or
New Jersey Transit.
US News & World Report ranked
Rutgers-Newark the most diverse university campus in the United States. Because the area of Rutgers' New Brunswick-Piscataway campus—which is composed of several constituent colleges and professional schools—is sprawled across six
municipalities, the individual campuses are connected by an inter-campus
bus system.
Traditions and symbols
The
alma mater of Rutgers University is the song entitled
On the Banks of the Old Raritan, written by Howard Fullerton (Class of 1874) in 1873. The current mascot is the Scarlet Knight. In its early days, Rutgers athletes were known as "Queensmen" in reference to the institution's first name, Queen's College. However, in 1925, the
mascot was changed to
Chanticleer, a fighting rooster from the
medieval fable Reynard the Fox (
Le Roman de Renart) which was used by
Geoffrey Chaucer's in the
Canterbury Tales. However, this mascot was often the subject of ridicule because of its association with "being
chicken." In 1955, the mascot was changed to the Scarlet Knight after a campus-wide election. This motto appears in the University's
seal (
pictured above), which is also derived from that of the University of Utrecht, and depicts a multi-pointed
sun.
At Commencement exercises in the Spring, tradition leads undergraduates to break
clay pipes over the
Class of 1877 Cannon monument in front of
Old Queens, symbolizing the breaking of ties with the college, and leaving behind the good times of one's undergraduate years. This
symbolic gesture dates back to when pipe-smoking was fashionable among undergraduates, and many college memories were of evenings of pipe smoking and revelry with friends. During commencement exercises, graduating seniors walk in
academic procession under the
Class of 1902 Memorial Gateway (erected in 1904) on Hamilton Street leading to the
Voorhees Mall where the ceremonies are held for
Rutgers College. Traditionally, students are warned to avoid walking beneath the gate before commencement over a
superstition that one who does won't graduate.
Student organizations and activities
Rutgers hosts over 700
student organizations, covering a wide range of interests. Among the first student groups was the first
college newspaper in the
United States of America.
The Political Intelligencer and New Jersey Adviser began publication at Queen's College in 1783, and ceased operation in 1785. Greek organizations are governed by the
Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs. Twelve organizations maintain chapters in New Brunswick without sanction by the University's administration.
In the late 1800s, the University banned fraternities because of their unusual hazing practices. This caused them to go underground as secret societies. It also sparked the interest of some students to create their own societies.
Cap and Skull,
Order of the Bull's Blood, and
Order of the Red Lion were all founded at Rutgers before the turn of the century.
Alumni
Since 1774, when the entire graduating class consisted of one student,
Matthew Leydt, there have been over 335,000 graduates, or
alumni, of Rutgers University. and
David A. Morse (A.B. 1929), Director-General of the
International Labour Organization, who won the Peace Prize in 1969. Several alumni have been awarded the
Pulitzer Prize, including
Michael Shaara (A.B. 1951), author of
The Killer Angels and other
historical fiction, in
Fiction (1975), journalist
Richard Aregood (B.A. 1965) in
editorial writing (1985), and
Roy Franklin Nichols (A.B. 1918) in
history (1949).
Alumni of Rutgers have had a considerable impact in the arts, including those by two noted modern sculptors,
George Segal (M.A. 1963) and
Alice Aycock (B.A. 1968). Many notable buildings in
Boston (the
Copley Plaza Hotel), and
New York City including the
The Dakota,
Plaza Hotel, the
Waldorf and
Astoria Hotels (demolished in 1929 to make way for the
Empire State Building) as well as several of the oldest buildings on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, were designed by architect
Henry Janeway Hardenburgh (A.B. 1871). Poet
Joyce Kilmer (Class of 1908), attended Rutgers for two years before transferring to
Columbia University, was famous for his poem "Trees" and later died in
World War I, and
Robert Pinsky (B.A. 1962), was appointed
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1997. Filmmaker and critic
Wheeler Winston Dixon (Ph.D. 1982) has written more than twenty five books on film history, theory and criticism, and his collected films are housed at
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Many Rutgers graduates have gone on to careers in public service, including former
U.S. Secretary of State and
Senator Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1836), former
U.S. Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary (J.D. 19??), former
FBI director
Louis Freeh (B.A. 1971),
Vice President of the United States Garret A. Hobart (A.B. 1863), and former Representative and Senator
Clifford P. Case (A.B. 1925). Among the first students enrolled at Rutgers (when it was
Queen's College),
Simeon DeWitt (A.B. 1776) became the Surveyor-General for the Continental Army (1776–1783) during the
American Revolution and classmate
James Schureman (A.B. 1775), served in the
Continental Congress and as a United States Senator. Seven Rutgers graduates have served as
Governor of New Jersey:
Charles C. Stratton (A.B. 1814),
William A. Newell (A.B. 1836; A.M. 1839),
George C. Ludlow (A.B. 1850, A.M. 1850),
Foster M. Voorhees (A.B. 1876, A.M. 1879),
A. Harry Moore (J.D. 1922),
Richard Hughes (J.D. 1931), and
James J. Florio (J.D. 1967). Alumnus
Joseph P. Bradley (A.B. 1836) was an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States (1870–1891) and cast the tie-breaking vote on the bipartisan commission that decided the contested
American presidential election in 1876.
Alumni have founded or headed businesses, including Robert Kriendler (A.B. 1936), owner of the
21 Club in New York City,
Leonor F. Loree (A.B. 1877), President of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
Bernard Marcus (B.S. 1951), Founder of the
Home Depot, Ernest Mario (B.S. 1961), former Chief Executive Officer of
GlaxoSmithKline,
Duncan McMillan (B.S. 1966), co-founder of
Bloomberg L.P., and
Barry Schuler (B.A. 1976), former Chairman and CEO of
AmericaOnline (AOL).
Graduates of Rutgers have gone on to make advances in medicine, mathematics and science, most notably Nobel Laureate
Selman A. Waksman (B.Sc. 1915), but also including Peter C. Schultz (B.S. 1967), co-inventor of
fiber optics, geneticist
Stanley N. Cohen (B.Sc. 1956) who pioneered in the field of
gene splicing,
Louis Gluck (B.S. 1930) the "father of
neonatology," computer pioneer
Nathan M. Newmark (B.S. 1948) who won the
National Medal of Science, and Matthew Golombek (B.S. 1976) who was the project scientist in charge of NASA's Pathfinder mission to
Mars.
Rutgers alumni have entertained Americans on the silver screen as well as the small screen, including most notably
James Gandolfini (B.A. 1983), known for his role on
The Sopranos, and
Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson (B.A. 1927), fondly remembered for
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Film star
Asia Carrera (B.A. 1996) became the most famous adult actress of her generation. The Food Network has rocketed Chef and Restaurateur
Mario Batali (B.A. 1982) into America's homes. Other notable thespian alumni include
Avery Brooks (B.A. 1973), Alan Semok (B.A. 1975) (
Shining Time Station,
K.I.D.S.-TV),
Kristin Davis (B.F.A. 1987), (
Sex and the City), and
Calista Flockhart (B.F.A. 1988) (
The Birdcage,
Ally McBeal).
In athletics, graduates of Rutgers have won Olympic gold medals, been inducted into sports halls of fame, and led numerous teams as general managers and coaches including including
Major League Baseball manager
Jeff Torborg (B.A. 1963),
Eddie Jordan (B.A. 1977), coach of the
Washington Wizards,
Sonny Werblin (A.B. 1932), founder of the
New York Jets, and
David Stern (B.A. 1963), Commissioner of the
National Basketball Association.
Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani writer, lawyer, and constitutional scholar is also a Rutgers alumnus.
Quincy Magoo (
degree and class unknown), a lovable cartoon character from the 1950s and 1960s, was among the proudest of Rutgers' "Loyal Sons."
Athletics
Rutgers was among the first American institutions to engage in intercollegiate athletics, and participated in a small circle of schools that included
Yale University,
Columbia University and long-time rival,
Princeton University (then called
The College of New Jersey). The four schools met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
Manhattan on
19 October 1873 to establish a set of rules governing their intercollegiate competition, and particularly to codify the new game of
football. Though invited,
Harvard chose not to attend. In the early years of intercollegiate athletics, the circle of schools that participated in these athletic events were located solely in the American Northeast. However, by the turn of the century, colleges and universities across the United States began to participate.
In 1864, rowing became the first organized sport at Rutgers. Six mile races were held on the Raritan River among six-oared boats. In 1870, Rutgers held its first intercollegiate competition, against the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, the then top-ranked amateur crew of the time. Since the start in 1864, Rutgers has built a strong crew program consisting of heavyweight and lightweight men. Women’s crew was added to the program in 1974.
The first intercollegiate athletic event at Rutgers was a baseball game on
2 May 1866 against Princeton in which they suffered a 40-2 loss. Rutgers University is often referred to as
The Birthplace of College Football as the first
intercollegiate football game was held on College Field between Rutgers and Princeton on
6 November 1869 in
New Brunswick, New Jersey on a plot of ground where the present-day
College Avenue Gymnasium now stands. Rutgers won the game, with a score of 6 runs to Princeton's 4. (This game is believed to have been closer to soccer than to modern American football.)
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Since 1866, Rutgers remained unaffiliated with any formal athletic conference and was classified as "independent". From 1946 to 1951, the university was a member of the
Middle Three Conference, and from 1958 to 1961, was a member of the
Middle Atlantic Conference. In
1978, Rutgers became a member of the
Atlantic 10 conference. In
1991, it joined the
Big East Conference for football. All sports programs at Rutgers subsequently became affiliated with the Big East in
1995.
The first intercollegiate competition in
Ultimate Frisbee (now called simply "Ultimate") was held between students from Rutgers and
Princeton on
November 6,
1972 to mark the one hundred third anniversary of the first intercollegiate football game. Rutgers won 29-27.
The Rutgers Men's Basketball Team was among the "Final Four" and ended the 1976 season ranked fourth in the United States, after an 86-70 loss against the
University of Michigan in the semifinals, and a 106-92 loss against
UCLA in the consolation round of the
1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Since 1991, Rutgers is a member of the
Big East Conference, a collegiate athletic conference consisting of 16 colleges and universities from the East Coast and
Midwestern regions of the United States. The Big East Conference is a member of the
Bowl Championship Series. Rutgers currently fields 27 intercollegiate sports programs and is a
Division I school as sanctioned by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association. The Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-Camden campuses compete within NCAA
Division III. Rutgers fields thirty teams in NCAA Division I sanctioned sports, including
Football,
Baseball,
Basketball,
Crew,
Cross Country,
Fencing,
Field Hockey,
Golf,
Gymnastics,
Lacrosse,
Soccer,
Softball,
Tennis,
Track and Field,
Swimming and
Diving,
Wrestling,
Volleyball.
Since joining the Big East, the Scarlet Knights have won five Big East Conference tournament titles: men's
soccer (1997), men's
track & field (2005),
baseball (2000, 2007),
women's basketball (2007). Several other teams have won regular season titles but failed to win the conference's championship tournament.
Most recently, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights' football team has achieved success on the gridiron after several years of losing seasons, being invited to the
Insight Bowl on
27 December 2005 in which they lost 45 to 40 against
Arizona State University. This was Rutgers' first bowl appearance since the
16 December 1978 loss against Arizona State, 34-18, at the
Garden State Bowl.
The 2006 football season also saw Rutgers being ranked within the Top 25 teams in major college football polls. After the
9 November 2006 victory over the #3 ranked, undefeated
Louisville Cardinals, Rutgers jumped up to seventh in the
AP Poll, eighth in the
USA Today/Coaches poll, seventh in the
Harris Interactive Poll, and sixth in the
Bowl Championship Series rankings. These were Rutgers' highest rankings in the football polls since they were ranked fifteenth in 1961. Rutgers ended the season 11-2 after winning the inaugural
Texas Bowl on
28 December 2006, defeating the
Wildcats of
Kansas State University by a score of 37-10 and finishing the season ranked twelfth in the final
Associated Press poll of sportswriters, the team's highest season-ending ranking. They go into the 2007 season with a #16 ranking in the USA Today poll and eight games at Rutgers Stadium, where they went undefeated last year.
Under Head Coach
C. Vivian Stringer, the Women's Basketball program is among the elite programs in the country as they remain consistently ranked in the Top 25, consistently making the NCAA Women's Championship Tournament, and sometimes winning the Big East regular season championship. In 2006-2007, Rutgers won their first ever Big East Conference Tournament Championship. The program has been highly competitive since its inception, winning the 1982 AIAW National Championship, reaching the 2000 Final Four, and reaching the Final Four and national championship game in 2007.
Rutgers maintains athletic rivalries with other collegiate institutions. The university has a historic rivalry with
Princeton University and
Columbia University (formerly
King's College) originating from the early days of college football. While they maintain this rivalry in other sports, neither of them have met in football since 1980. Rutgers has a basketball rivalry with
Seton Hall University, and has developed a growing three-way rivalry with the
University of Connecticut and
Syracuse University, both fellow Big East Conference members.
With the fall 2007 semester, six of Rutgers New Brunswick/Piscataway's NCAA Division I Olympic sports will become club teams, including men's swimming and diving, men's heavyweight and lightweight crew, men's tennis, and men's and women's fencing.
Trivia
Rutgers hosted as faculty the influential circle of 1960s artists called the "Rutgers Group" which included Roy Liechtenstein and George Segal.
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