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May 2009
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| WELCOME TO RUTGERS' E-NEWSLETTER FOR PARENTS! |
| Congratulations on your child's decision to enroll at Rutgers! This is an exciting time for both students and parents, and we want to help by providing you with information that will enable you to feel connected to your child and the university and help you provide the best guidance and support as your child embarks on this new and exciting phase of their life. |
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In This Issue...
Summer Orientation
Placement Testing and Other Next Steps
Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
Rutgers Parents Association
News Flashes
Advocating for Rutgers
Rutgers Organic Farm
New Brunswick Arts Awards
Tell Us What You Think
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Summer Orientation
Rutgers' summer orientation program is a dynamic and interactive program that provides enrolling students with essential information that will help them succeed. The program is designed to:
- Help students navigate campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway
- Help students recognize the breadth and depth of resources and tools to access these resources
- Help students connect with other students, faculty, and staff
- Help students develop strategies to be personally and academically successful
All students are expected to register for and attend a summer orientation session. Students register for summer orientation through the Enrollment Pathway, Rutgers' online guide that also provides students with information about placement testing, academic planning and advising, on-campus housing, immunizations, student life, billing, and other important matters.
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Placement Testing and Other Next Steps
After a student enrolls at Rutgers by returning their admission acknowledgment form either by mail or online, they can access the Enrollment Pathway, a step-by-step online guide for arranging for placement testing, academic planning and advising, summer orientation, applying for on-campus housing, establishing computer and email accounts, indicating student life interests, obtaining immunization information and the required pre-entrance form, and much more.
Students take placement tests in English, math, and in some cases foreign languages that will determine their initial course work in those subjects. Students use the Enrollment Pathway to choose and register for a specific placement testing date. It is best to complete placement testing before attending an academic planning and advising program where students will meet with their academic adviser and select their first-semester courses.
Students with critical reading SAT scores above 600 are exempt from taking the English placement test.
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Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
Is your son or daughter still thinking about a major? Many first-year students are undecided and explore their options during the early part of their undergraduate experience. Rutgers makes it easy for students and parents to learn more about our majors. We give students and parents the opportunity to create their own information packets. You can create an unlimited number of information packets at no cost. Create one now by visiting http://infopacket.admissions.rutgers.edu
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Rutgers Parents Association
All parents of Rutgers students are automatically members of the Rutgers Parents Association. To take full advantage of the many benefits of membership, including many discounts, register at the association's website.
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Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Michael Jordan and C. Vivian Stringer
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize in Fiction |
News Flashes
Rutgers offers a variety of payment plans--including a monthly plan-- that can make it easier for students and families to meet educational expenses. More
Rutgers' Old Queens Building, the university's oldest buiding, celebrates its bicentennial. More
Rutgers-New Brunswick opens a new 18,000-square-foot nursing building. More
Four faculty members awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships. More
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed wins the Pulitzer Prize in History. More
Did you know that more than 60% of Rutgers undergraduates engage in research activities? The Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium showcases the many interesting projects our students are engaged in. More
Six new members inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni. More
The United States Department of Homeland Security chooses Rutgers to co-lead new research center. More
Rutgers' women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. More
Rutgers' Daily Targum, our student-run daily newspaper, captures "Best of Show" award from Associated Collegiate Press. More
Rutgers senior receives prestigious Clarendon Scholarship to study at Oxford University. More
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Advocating for Rutgers
Rutgers students joined the university's president, Richard L. McCormick, and other university administrators at a meeting with lawmakers about federal funding for need-based financial aid programs, including grants and low-interest loans, that make it possible for many students to finance their education. More
Parents can also help by writing or calling their state and federal government representatives to ask for ample state and federal aid for students and Rutgers University. For contact information for state and federal government representatives from your area, visit here.
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Rutgers Organic Farm
Interest in eating locally grown food has been, well, growing. A major source for locally grown food in the New Brunswick area is the Cook Student Organic Farm, a five-acre tract located off Ryder's Lane that provides organically grown produce to its local shareholders, and also provides jobs and experience for Rutgers students interested in sustainable agriculture. More
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New Brunswick Arts Awards
Students, faculty, and area residents don't have to travel to New York City to enjoy a Broadway experience with award-winning companies.
The George Street Playhouse, Livingston Theatre Company, and the American Repertory Ballet were recently awarded Favorite Professional Theater, Favorite Community Theater, and Favorite Dance Company in New Jersey by JerseyArts.com.
New Brunswick won the JerseyArts.com first annual People's Choice Award as New Jersey's favorite downtown arts district for 2008. More
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Ramon Dompor/Staff Photographer,
The Daily Targum |
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Tell Us What You Think
We have created this newsletter for you. We have included content that we believe you will find helpful, but we'd like to hear from you for this to be an effective tool. Please email parentsnewsletter@ugadm.rutgers.edu with your comments, questions or suggestions for future articles.
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