Each spring around Commencement, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts holds its very own celebration, awarding its standout student and faculty stars from across the college’s diverse academic spectrum of art, history and humanities to physics, biology and chemistry.
Patrycja Ptak, a second-year architecture student at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, vividly recalls the uncertainty she felt and challenges she faced navigating the college pathway — which is why she decided to become a mentor through Strive for College, an online platform that provides resources and support to aspiring and current first-generation college students, and with which NJIT is a strategic partner.
Oct. 9, 2019 – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced it is now offering a new way for students to connect with scholarship opportunities through the launch of ScholarshipUniverse — a “state-of-the-art digital scholarship-matching system aimed toward maximizing funding for students.”
As part of its commitment to prepare students from the city of Newark for higher education, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has developed the Rising Scholars mentoring program, effective this fall semester. The program, a collaboration of the university’s Offices of Persistence (under Enrollment Management), Financial Aid and Dean of Students, will provide guidance in navigating the college experience, as well as paid employment through Federal Work-Study.
While Spring Commencement is on the horizon for the Class of 2019, the first wave of year-end celebrations has already begun for a special group of award-winning seniors at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA).
Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga was just 2 years old when he and his parents left their home in Bogota, Colombia, and migrated to the United States. They settled in Rockaway, N.J., with the aid of his aunt in nearby Parsippany and began a new life, far from the mounting violence triggered by their native country’s illegal drug trade.
This spring, NJIT’s 2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards honored an exclusive group of its undergraduate and graduate seniors with the CSLA Outstanding Student Award — a distinction annually given to students who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence in their field.
Students who are the first in their family to pursue higher education or come from a low-income household continue to be severely underrepresented on college campuses, despite high educational aspirations.
