Thank you for the warm welcome I have received from so many of you to the Interim Dean role.
I joined Douglass four years ago in the Office of Advancement and have served for the past two years as the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, overseeing communications, operations, and planning at the College. While I have had the pleasure of meeting many of you, I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself to those of you I have not yet met.
To Our Alumnae Community,
One of my greatest joys as Dean of Douglass has been learning about and getting to know our wonderful alumnae. I have met hundreds of you, learned about your lives and dreams, and shared the many wonders of Douglass today. Your reflections on your college years, the deep friendships you generated at Douglass, and your curiosity about the College today have fueled many fulfilling days and hours over my last twelve years as Dean.
The Global Village Art as Activism House, a Douglass living-learning community focused on the global role of art in social justice, wrapped the academic year by putting on their annual exhibition.
Throughout the summer, Douglass will be celebrating recent graduates and young alumnae who exemplify Douglass excellence as well as the continuous network of alumnae support that flows into the College.
The Douglass Global Village and the Douglass Discovery Faculty Fellows program held the first annual Douglass Day, an event in which students presented the projects they worked on this past semester. The evening offered students the opportunity to share their work, showing the entire college community all that can be achieved through Douglass programs!
The winner of the 2022 Edele Neilson Prize in Speech is Kimberly Mohabeer DRC’22! As the recipient of this honor, Mohabeer will deliver the 2022 Student Address at the 101st Spring Convocation on May 14, 2022.
“I am excited to celebrate the culmination of years of hard work with all of my Douglass peers!” said Mohabeer of her upcoming speech. “My peers, our Douglass staff and faculty, our families, and our friends have all worked tirelessly for this moment.”
The Reilly Douglass Engineering Living-Learning Community Celebrates its 10-Year Anniversary
After two years of virtual ceremonies, the annual Sacred Path Ceremony returned to Douglass on April 10, 2022. The Ceremony, which recognizes student achievement, announced the 2022 Douglass award winners, marked the moving up of classes, and awarded each student and alumna with a commemorative Douglass charm. See the list of 2022 award winners below!
On Monday, April 11, 2022, Douglass Residential College at Rutgers–New Brunswick will mark the launch of its new, innovative partnership with The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) through a lecture by Dr. Hasnaa Mokhtar. In "Narrative Power and the Invisible Trauma of Gender-Based Violence," Dr. Mokhtar will engage students in one of the most pressing problems women face globally.
From the fine arts and research to advocacy and student organizations, Douglass students actively pursue their passions. Often, their leadership at the College furthers their own academic and personal goals while benefitting the larger community.
On March 4, 2022, Douglass hosted Women’s Day at Douglass, an annual college-wide event in honor of International Women’s Day! The afternoon sought to recognize the work of local and global gender equality initiatives while offering Douglass students a chance to connect.
The Africana: Gender and the Black Diaspora House, formerly named the Africana House, is an important component of both Douglass history and current college programming. The community is one of seven globally themed houses in the Douglass Global Village Living-Learning Community. Members of the community live together in a common residence hall, take a house course, and explore research interests in relation to the Black American, African, and Caribbean cultures in New Brunswick and beyond. Together, they learn about the contemporary issues facing members of the African Diaspora and explore Black feminist thought through cultural manifestations of identity politics.