Last month, more than 150 local high school students arrived at NJIT to begin charting their career paths alongside New Jersey’s top employers at the 2019 Junior Achievement (JA) Career Success® Workshop College Series.
NJIT and the university’s president, Joel S. Bloom, have been recognized by the Newark Regional Business Partnership (NRBP) for their commitment to revitalizing Newark to help “make the City a better place to live, work or visit.” Both were publicly acknowledged April 2 at The Newark Museum, where the organization held the eighth annual Kevin J. McKenna Awards and presented the 2019 Kevin J. McKenna Leadership Award to President Bloom. McKenna was a longtime NRBP counsel and executive committee member who died suddenly in 2011.
Beginning April 15, 2019, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will join a growing citywide initiative introduced to encourage its employees to “live local.”
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority has awarded the City of Newark a $100,000 grant as part of the second round of its Innovation Challenge.
Last fall, nine municipalities were awarded $100,000 each in the first wave of a program designed to encourage communities to strengthen local innovation ecosystems through partnerships with higher education institutions and other strategic partners.
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WHAT: In building upon its deep and close relationship with the city in which it resides, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is partnering with the City of Newark and the Newark Public Schools on two new and important initiatives.
Marjorie Perry ’05, president and CEO of MZM Construction and Management, sits in a meeting room inside NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC). Her well-manicured hands are folded on top of a large conference table. Pink nail polish adds a pop of color to her all-black ensemble. She removes a Harvard-emblazoned lanyard from around her neck and lays it on the table. “I’m scared to death,” she says.
Eighty-two percent of participating businesses reported profitability, while overall they secured $776 million in government, institutional and corporate contracting. These are just two of the noteworthy results* of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation’s (CEDC) Mini MBA Program.
Municipal leaders, academic presenters, as well as chief technology, information and analytics officers from across the country gathered at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center Oct. 15 and 16 for the MetroLab Network 2018 Annual Summit. The conference centered on leveraging city-university partnerships to deliver technology, data and analytics to local government and drive civic innovation.
Associate degree students from Essex County College (ECC) are now able to seamlessly transfer into appropriate and/or corresponding bachelor’s degree programs at NJIT.
This week, from September 6-9, the city of Newark will play stage to one of the premier film festivals in the country — the Newark International Film Festival (NIFF). And this year, NJIT student-filmmakers will be part of the show.
