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| Formed | 1966 |
| Jurisdiction | New Jersey |
| Headquarters | 225 West State Street, 4th floor, Trenton, New Jersey 08608 |
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| Parent agency | New Jersey Department of State |
| Website | nj |
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts was founded in 1966 to support artistic activities in the state of New Jersey. It is funded by the New Jersey State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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The Ramapo Mountains are a forested chain of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern New Jersey and southeastern New York, in the United States. They range in height from 900 to 1,200 feet in New Jersey, and 900 to 1,400 feet in New York.
The Pompton River is a tributary of the Passaic River, approximately 8 miles (13 km) long, in northern New Jersey in the United States.
Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood in Newark in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is east of Branch Brook Park and north of the Lower Broadway neighborhood. It is named for the hill overlooking the Passaic River on which it rests.
Fairmount is a neighborhood in the city of Newark in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the West Ward. Its population is mostly African American. Central Avenue is the major street, though its commerce is considerably reduced from the Industrial Era heyday. The neighborhood is bounded by South Orange Avenue on the south, the Garden State Parkway on the west, Interstate 280 on the north, West Market Street on the north-east, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey on the east.
Douglass Residential College is a non-degree-granting program open to female undergraduate students at any of the degree-granting schools of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. It succeeded the liberal arts degree-granting Douglass College after it was merged with the other undergraduate colleges at Rutgers-New Brunswick in 2007. Originally named the New Jersey College for Women when founded in 1918 as a degree granting college, it was renamed Douglass College in 1955 in honor of its first dean. The program now called Douglass Residential College is no longer a degree granting unit of Rutgers, but is a supplementary program that female undergraduate students attending the Rutgers-New Brunswick undergraduate schools may choose to join. Female students enrolled at any of the academic undergraduate schools at Rutgers–New Brunswick, including, e.g., the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Mason Gross School of the Arts, may now also enroll in Douglass Residential College, which offers special enrichment and career preparation experiences, special projects, and educational and service travel, and at which they must satisfy additional requirements specific to the college. Douglass seeks to provide the benefits of a close-knit small community of women students and offers programs specially designed to help women students to identify their unique abilities and develop confidence. These programs include, for example, a strong emphasis on opportunities to participate in service/learning trips in foreign countries, support for and expansion of racial and cultural diversity, and a wide range of training and enrichment activities offered by a career and leadership development center known as the "BOLD" Center.
The Assumption College for Sisters is a private two-year Roman Catholic women's college formerly located in Mendham Borough, New Jersey. Founded in 1953 through an affiliation with nearby Seton Hall University, Assumption is run by the Sisters of Christian Charity. It is the last remaining sisters' college, or college primarily designed to educate religious sisters, located in the United States. Since 2014, Assumption has shared a campus with Morris Catholic High School in Denville Township, New Jersey.
The Skylands Region is a region of New Jersey located in the northern and central parts of the state. It is one of six tourism regions established by the New Jersey State Department of Tourism; the others are Gateway Region, Greater Atlantic City Region, the Southern Shore Region, the Delaware River Region, and the Shore Region.
The Rutgers School of Health Professions is one of the schools that form Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, a division of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The school has campuses in Newark, Piscataway, Scotch Plains, and Stratford, New Jersey. SHP was formerly the School of Health Related Professions of the now-defunct University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).
Chinatown was a neighborhood in the city of Newark in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was an ethnic enclave with a large percentage of Chinese immigrants, centered along Mulberry Street from 1875 and remaining on some scale for nearly one hundred years.
St. Joseph's University Medical Center is a member of St. Joseph's Health. Located in Paterson, New Jersey, St. Joseph's University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, is a major academic medical center and state designated trauma center that cares for the most complex and routine cases. There is also a second acute care hospital located in Wayne, New Jersey on Hamburg Turnpike under the St. Joseph's Health umbrella.
Northern State Prison is a state run prison located at 168 Frontage Road in Newark, New Jersey for male offenders. It is operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Northern State Prison offers community service activities to all minimum security inmates. The prison also houses the Security Threat Group Management Unit, which provides treatment to inmates affiliated with gangs that threaten the security of the institution.
First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located at 600 Rahway Avenue in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, one of the first townships established in the state at the end of the 17th century.
The American Repertory Ballet (ARB) is an American ballet company based in New Jersey.
Hartford is an unincorporated community located within Mount Laurel Township, in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Rowan College at Burlington County's Mount Laurel Campus is located in Hartford, on Route 38 between Hartford Road and Briggs Road.
Ridgewood Bus Terminal is a New Jersey Transit transportation hub located in downtown Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States. The terminal is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Oak Street and Dayton Street at Van Neste Square, approximately 820 feet (250 m) ESE of NJTransit's Ridgewood train station.
Voorhees Chapel is one of two chapels on the campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Built in 1925 with a donation from Elizabeth Rodman Voorhees, wife of Rutgers trustee Ralph Voorhees, the chapel once served the community of Douglass College. Douglass, founded the New Jersey College for Women, was the women's residential college at Rutgers.
Saint Joseph's Seminary was an American Roman Catholic educational institution located in Plainsboro, New Jersey, though with an address in Princeton, New Jersey. It was founded in 1914 and was operated by the Congregation of the Mission, better known as the Vincentian Fathers, for the formation of their members and other candidates to the Catholic priesthood. The school closed in 1992 and a retreat center occupied the site until 2009. The Mother of God Orthodox Church had also occupied a small portion of the seminary until 2015 when American Boychoir School had been relocated there. The site is now home to private schools, but the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal is now home to the Princeton Abbey and Cemetery. The Abbey is now a public cemetery and event space for the Princeton area.
Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf (MKSD), also known as the New Jersey School for the Deaf and Blind, initially the New Jersey State Institution for the Deaf , is a K-12 statewide school in West Trenton, Ewing Township, New Jersey. Its age range is pre-Kindergarten to age 21. The New Jersey Department of Education oversees the school. It is named after Marie Hilson Katzenbach.
