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Rutgers University ( / ˈrʌtɡərz / RUT-gərz; RU ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, [11] and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church.
The school now called Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, was chartered on November 10, 1766, as "the trustees of Queen's College, in New-Jersey" in honor of King George III 's Queen-consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744–1818). [3] The charter was signed and the young college was supported by William Franklin (1730–1813 ...
Rutgers was a part of a round-robin conference known as the Middle Three Conference in football from 1929 through 1976, which included Lafayette and Lehigh. The winner of the annual round-robin received the Little Brass Cannon. The schools frequently met in other intercollegiate sports.
College Avenue is the oldest campus of Rutgers University – New Brunswick, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. It includes the historic seat of the university, known as Old Queens and the campus of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Many classes are taught in the Voorhees Mall area, also home to the Zimmerli Art Museum.
Rutgers Campus Buses are a zero-fare bus service used by students at Rutgers University campuses. It is the second-largest bus service in New Jersey after NJ Transit, and one of the largest university bus systems in the United States. Service is provided by Transdev year-round, including weekends and holidays.
The first Rutgers Day as such took place Saturday, April 25, 2009, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and attracted 50,000 visitors to university campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway, N.J. Rutgers Day expanded on the university's long-standing traditions of Rutgers Agricultural Field Day and the New Jersey Folk Festival, which also occurred that day ...
The 2023 Rutgers University strike was a labor strike involving faculty and graduate student workers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States. Academic workers at all four campuses— New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, and RBHS —participated in the bargaining action, [1] affecting over 9,000 staff members and 67,000 students at the ...
On the night of April 25, 1875 ten members of the Rutgers Class of 1877 set out to steal back "Big Cannon" from Princeton However, they were unable to move it, so instead they returned to New Brunswick with "Little Cannon." [3] Princeton responded with a raid on Rutgers, stealing some muskets, and the heads of the two colleges exchanged polite ...