Rider University

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Rider University
Rider University shield.svg
Former names
Trenton Business College (1865–1896)
Rider Business College (1896–1920)
Rider College (1920–1994)
MottoIn Omnia Paratus (Latin)
Motto in English
In all things prepared
Type Private university
Established1865;159 years ago (1865)
Academic affiliations
Endowment $44.4 million, Rider; $20 million Westminster Choir College (2020) [3]
President Gregory G. Dell'Omo
Academic staff
>200 full time [4]
Students3,693
Location
Lawrenceville
,
New Jersey
,
United States

40°16′48″N74°44′17″W / 40.280°N 74.738°W / 40.280; -74.738
Campus suburban, 303 acres (1.23 km2) [4]
Colors Cranberry and Grey [5]
   
Nickname Broncs
Sporting affiliations
 NCAA Division I
Website www.rider.edu
Rider University wordmark.svg

Rider University is a private university in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. It consists of four academic units: the Norm Brodsky College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Education and Human Services, and Westminster College of the Arts (consisting of the School of Fine and Performing Arts and Westminster Choir College). [6]

Contents

History

Temperance Hall, 1865, the original home of the Trenton Business College Temperance Hall, Trenton, NJ.jpg
Temperance Hall, 1865, the original home of the Trenton Business College

The school was founded as Trenton Business College on October 1, 1865, by Henry Beadman Bryant and Henry D. Stratton, operators of the Bryant and Stratton chain of private business schools. The school was located in Temperance Hall at the corner of South Broad and Front Streets in Trenton, New Jersey. Andrew J Rider was appointed as its first president. [7] President Rider owned 500 acres of cranberry bogs near Hammonton, New Jersey. According to tradition, this is why the school colors are cranberry and white.

The school grew and periodically moved to larger quarters. In 1896 women were admitted. In 1896 the school was renamed Rider Business College. President Rider stepped down the following year. [7]

In 1920 the institution moved to East State Street in Trenton and officially became known as Rider College. In 1922 the New Jersey Board of Education granted Rider College permission to confer the degrees of Bachelor of Accounts and Bachelor of Commercial Science. In 1957 Rider Business College introduced liberal studies leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. [7]

In 1959 Rider College moved its campus to a 283-acre suburban tract on Route 206 in Lawrence Township, N.J. On November 15, 1961, President Franklin F. Moore (a 1927 alumnus of the college) announced the gradual reorganization of the college into five separate schools, each headed by a dean who would report to the provost. The changes took effect with the 1962–63 academic year. The five schools included a new School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. [8]

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Williamson Hall at Westminster Choir College

Rider College merged with nearby Westminster Choir College (WCC), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1991–92. The campus of Westminster became the Princeton campus of Rider College. On April 13, 1994, the college became Rider University. [9] In 2007 President Mordechai Rozanski announced the creation of the School of Fine and Performing Arts to integrate the Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses and expand programming for the arts. [10]

Today, Rider's Lawrenceville campus is home to its College of Business Administration; College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences; College of Continuing Studies, School of Education, and part of the Westminster College of the Arts, which is also located on the Princeton campus.

In 2005 Rider completed its 63,000-square-foot (5,900 m2) Student Recreation Center (SRC), a 186-bed residence hall, and three-story additions to Ziegler and Hill Residence Halls. The SRC contains locker rooms, a 3,600-square-foot (330 m2) fitness room and various athletic facilities. [11]

Rider University's bonds have been rated as junk since 2020. [12] As of 2023, the school has experienced financial difficulties and a loss of a fifth of its student body due to declining enrollment. [13]

Presidents

Rider has had seven presidents:

  1. Andrew Jackson Rider (1866–1898)
  2. Franklin Benjamin Moore (1898–1934)
  3. Franklin Frazee Moore (1934–1969)
  4. Frank N. Elliott (1969–1990)
  5. J. Barton Luedeke (1990–2003)
  6. Mordechai Rozanski (2003–2015)
  7. Gregory Dell'Omo (2015–present)

Academics

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences comprises 13 departments, offering a wide array of more than 70 undergraduate majors and minors. The college also offers master's degrees in Business Administration, Education, and Journalism. [14]

Rankings

U.S. News & World Report ranked Rider University tied for 22nd in the Regional Universities North category in 2016. [15] Forbes ranked Rider University 485th on its "America's Top Colleges" list in 2015. [16]

Campus

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Centennial Lake

The 280-acre (1.1 km2) Lawrenceville campus is in a suburban area three miles (5 km) north of Trenton and five miles (8 km) south of Princeton. There is a man-made lake with a bridge that allows students to cross easily. The Westminster campus is in Princeton, New Jersey.

Academic buildings

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The Science and Technology Center

Birenbaum Fisher Hall (College of Education & Human Services), the Science and Technology Center (Sciences & Mathematics), the Fine Arts Center (Westminster College of the Arts & Communication), Joseph P. Vonna Academic Annex (Learning Resource Center), the Canastra Health & Sports Center, Anne Brossman Sweigart Hall (Norm Brodsky College of Business Administration), Lynch Adler Hall (History & Philosophy) contain the classrooms and laboratories for all curricula. Built in 2011, Lynch Adler hall is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design silver certified, 21,250-square-foot (1,974 m2) academic building that stands next to Moore Library. [17] [18]

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North Hall, built 2011

The Princeton Community Japanese Language School teaches weekend Japanese classes for Japanese citizen children abroad to the standard of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and it also has classes for people with Japanese as a second language. [19] The main office of the school is in Princeton although the office used on Sundays is in Biernbaum Fisher Hall. [19]

Libraries

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The Franklin Moore Library

The Franklin Moore Library supports the academic programs with a collection of more than 481,000 volumes, 2,000 periodical titles, 650,000 microforms, 134 online databases, electronic access to 42,000 journals, and an audiovisual collection. Westminster Choir College's Talbott Library has specialized music resources including 75,000 books, music scores and periodicals, a choral music reference collection of more than 80,000 titles and more than 31,000 sound and video recordings.

Rider Libraries are the official depository for records created by the New Jersey Business Teachers Association and the Eastern Business Teachers Association. In special collectsion, there is a microfilm collection of Civil War Era diplomatic correspondence between the United States, France. and Great Britain. It also holds a major collection of Delaware Valley newspapers reaching back to the 18th century. [20]

Publications and media

The Shadow Yearbook
First published in 1923 two years after the institution officially changed its name to Rider College. The yearbook continues to be published each year by a student staff.
The Rider News
The school's student newspaper, founded in 1930, is now published weekly on Wednesdays between September and May.
WRRC-FM 107.7 The Bronc [21]
Student-run radio station, founded in 1962.
Venture
The literary magazine welcomes submissions from students’ art and literature focusing on any topic
The Rider University Network (R.U.N.)
The student organization produces television programs in the campus studio. Programs are broadcast on campus and online, founded in 2000. [22]

Student life

Currently on Rider's Lawrenceville Campus, there are more than a dozen Greek organizations. In addition to social Greek organizations, there are professional and honorary fraternities. [23]

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University House, one of the dorms devoted to Greek life

On March 30, 2007, 18-year-old student Gary DeVercelly died of alcohol poisoning after heavy drinking at a Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house. [24] The incident was tied to a longstanding hazing tradition involving dangerous quantities of alcohol. [25] Two Rider University officials, including the dean of students, and three students were indicted for aggravated hazing; [26] the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence. [27] Settlement of the civil lawsuit resulted in major policy concessions by the university.

Theater

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The Fine Arts Center and Yvonne Theater

Westminster College of the Arts has a theater program. Several productions a year give students a variety of opportunities. They are a combination of musicals and straight plays. Professional performing arts facilities include The Yvonne Theater, The Spitz Studio Theater, and Bart Luedeke Arts Center.

Athletics

Athletic teams are nicknamed the Broncs. The school competes in the NCAA Division I Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. As the MAAC is a non-wrestling conference, Rider's wrestling team competes as a member of the Mid-American Conference.

The intercollegiate sports program at Rider was started by coach Clair Bee in the 1920s. Two of the school's most famous athletic alumni are former Notre Dame basketball coach and current ESPN sportscaster Digger Phelps, who played basketball at Rider from 1959 to 1963, and Jason Thompson, who played basketball at Rider from 2004 to 2008 and was drafted by the Sacramento Kings.

The university competed in football until 1951, when the football team was disbanded.

In 2007, the university redesigned its athletic logo. [28]

Notable alumni

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