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Rutgers University (/ ˈ r ʌ t ɡ ər z / RUT-gərz), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College , [ 10 ] and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church .
The school now called Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, was chartered on November 10, 1766, as "the trustees of Queen's College, in New-Jersey" in honor of King George III's Queen-consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744–1818). [3]
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Rutgers football team in 1882. On November 6, 1869, Rutgers University and Princeton University competed in the first intercollegiate football game. [7] The site for the contest was a small plot of land on what is now College Avenue on Rutgers' campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Ph.D., Yale University (1976) Taught at Rutgers as Professor of History (1976–1992, including three years as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; vice chancellor and provost at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1992–1995); President of the University of Washington (1995–2002) [24]
The eighth of nine colleges established during the American colonial period, Rutgers was chartered as Queen's College on 10 November 1766. It was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 after Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), an American Revolutionary War hero, philanthropist, and an early benefactor of the school. [7]
The roots of Rutgers–Newark date back to 1908 when the New Jersey Law School first opened its doors. That law school, along with four other educational institutions in Newark—Dana College (founded in 1927), Newark Institute of Arts and Sciences (founded in 1909), Seth Boyden School of Business (founded 1929), and Mercer Beasley School of Law (founded 1926)—would form a series of ...