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To foster and promote the arts and humanities by cultivating academic, civic, and artistic partnerships that serve as models of meaningful collaboration between the university and the broader community.
- Fostering campus-community partnerships - By facilitating collaborative efforts in the arts and humanities and across disciplines, we support new coalitions of learning communities that blend the creative talents of faculty and students with artists; civic, business and political leaders; and with policy makers, educational institutions, art organizations, health and care-giving agencies to improve individual and community life.
- Enhancing the arts and humanities - By initiating and supporting creative partnerships in the arts and humanities, we foster the role of the artist as "public intellectual" and promote the role of the humanities in building capacity for public service.
- Advancing service learning - By promoting the value of experiential learning, civic engagement, and critical pedagogy, we empower students with the knowledge, skills, and principles of social justice and opportunities to apply these concepts to public life.
- Affirming diversity - By supporting innovative modes of inquiry and capacity building that affirms diversity, we strengthen cross-cultural connections and increase appreciation of differences
Strategic Objectives
- To provide leadership and support for the development of outreach activities that will facilitate campus-community partnerships, interdisciplinary faculty/student collaborations, and co-curricular programming.
- To develop and co-sponsor statewide arts and humanities programming that combines creative practice with inter- and multidisciplinary academic and public scholarship.
- To interface with and support Rutgers’ academic departments and individual faculty/staff involved in all forms of experiential learning including service learning, community-based research, internships, and independent studies.
- To design structured opportunities to engage faculty, students and staff in learning communities to advance diversity ideals and impart transnational knowledge
Administrative Staff
Office for Academic & Public Partnerships
in the Arts & Humanities
18 Bishop Place, Room 201
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-932-4302/4391
Fax: 732-932-5218
110 Warren St., Room 213
Newark NJ, 07102
Tel: 973-353-1203
Isabel Nazario, Associate Vice President for Academic &
Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities
inazario@rci.rutgers.edu
Glenda Daniel, Administrative Assistant gdaniel@rci.rutgers.edu
Amy Michael, Senior Program Administrator amymic@rci.rutgers.edu
Yilis del C. Suriel, Program Coordinator yilis@rci.rutgers.edu
Vilma Perez, Special Events Coordinator vperez@rci.rutgers.edu
Richard Rodriguez, Service Learning Program Coordinator rdr30@rci.rutgers.edu
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Committees
In keeping with the Office of Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities' mission of fostering collaborative partnerships, the Associate Vice Presidents serves on and chairs several committees whose work promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and extends the public scope of Rutgers University.
Committee on Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship
As part of the university-wide transformation of undergraduate education, the Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship Committee has been charged by Dr. Phil Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs to accomplish the following: “To draft recommendations for the development of the conceptual framework that will inform theory and practice of experiential learning including: intentional goals for service learning, administrative structure, mechanism for collaboration among Rutgers Schools, campus-community partnerships, assessment systems and funding strategies that will guide the institutionalization of civic engagement at Rutgers—New Brunswick.” The committee is co-chaired by Isabel Nazario, Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities and Dr. Jerome Kukor, Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Research of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Meeting Calendar
Executive Summary October 27, 2006
Minutes from October 27, 2006 Meeting
Executive Summary November 29, 2006
Minutes from November 29, 2006 Meeting
Faculty Engagement Committee
This committee looks at how things such as first-year seminars, capstone courses, learning communities, residential college experiences, campus programming, etc., involve faculty and students engaged in the intellectual life of the university.
Co Chairs: Indrani Chatterjee, Professor of History & Jerome Kukor
Dean, Research and Graduate Programs, Cook College
Town Gown Relationship Committee
In an effort to coordinate and better communicate the contributions that Rutgers people are making locally, the Town-Gown Relationship Committee is being formed by the Office of Community Affairs at the behest of President McCormick. Comprised of university administrators and deans who are actively engaged with our local municipalities, the Town-Gown Relationship Committee provides a forum for regular internal communication, priority-setting, and improved coordination of Rutgers’ outreach efforts. The committee is chaired by Linda Bassett, Senior Director of Community Affair.
Images/Imagenes Friends Advisory Committee
As co-chairs of the Images/Imagenes Friends Advisory Committee, Isabel Nazario and Daniel Jara support the mission of the Emmy Award winning, longest running show on PBS devoted to Latino/Hispanic affairs. Images/Imagenes has covered cultural events and issues facing New Jersey’s Latino community since its premiere in 1972. It is the longest running Hispanic affairs program in the PBS system and one of the longest running television programs of its kind in the country. The program examines the issues, trends and concerns important to the Latino community with field pieces from New Jersey and beyond and in-depth studio interview with leaders of the Latino community. In conjunction with the series, NJN produces the annual Hispanic Youth Showcase, a talent show where Latino youths from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania compete for scholarships.
NJN 21st Century Task Force
Composed of distinguished government, academic, corporate, and not-for-profit community leaders, the New Jersey Network 21st Century Task Force is designing the blueprint for the future success of NJN Public Television as the voice of our state. The Task Force is charged with recommending an infrastructure that supports NJN’s transition from a broadcast only format to being NJ’s public service multi-media resource, especially in the area of homeland security.
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