Nonprofit Profile: Cento Amici, the ‘100 Friends’
Origin
Cento Amici (100 Friends) was founded 30 years ago by Thomas Zito, executive director of the Bayonne Housing Authority, and Robert Zito, then an executive at the New York Stock Exchange. The two had...
Babineau joins executive committee of Rutgers’ Center for Real Estate
Anne S. Babineau, a co-chair of the Real Estate practice at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, has been appointed to join the executive committee of the advisory board at the Rutgers Center for Real Estate,...
Nonprofit Profile: Cornerstone Family Programs, building better lives
Origin
Founded in 1813 by women of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown to help women and children left behind during the War of 1812 as the Morristown Female Charitable Society. Later known as Family Service...
Rowan, Rutgers break ground on joint higher-education facility in Camden
The groundbreaking for the Joint Health Sciences Center in Camden on Thursday brought local, state and federal officials together to celebrate a facility that will provide education and training opportunities for careers in health...
Stevens gets $15M endowment to fund engineering scholarships
Stevens Institute of Technology has received the largest endowed scholarship gift in its history, a $15 million donation that will fund the A. James Clark Scholars Program, the Hoboken university announced Wednesday.
The gift from...
Report ranks N.J.’s college tuition costs; which one tops $50K a year?
Annual tuition at 27 of New Jersey’s four-year colleges ranged from $11,762 to $50,725, with more than half topping $29,000 a year, according to a published report Wednesday.
NJ Advance Media’s NJ.com ranked the colleges...
John Wiley and Sons names publishing veteran as new CEO
Hoboken’s John Wiley and Sons Inc. has named Brian A. Napack its new CEO and president, effective Dec. 4.
Napack follows Matthew Kissner, who has served as interim CEO since May. Kissner will stay on...
NJII, Rutgers creating manufacturing institute for pharma industry
The New Jersey Innovation Institute and Rutgers University are forming the New Jersey Continuous Manufacturing Institute to advance innovative manufacturing technologies in the pharmaceutical industry.
The NJCMI, a New Jersey Institute of Technology corporation, combines...
Agile Strategy Lab at NJII looks cool. What’s inside may be even cooler
When the New Jersey Innovation Institute opened the $7 million Agile Strategy Lab last spring, NJII CEO and President Donald Sebastian said the lab was expressly designed to bring together industry, academia and government...
NJIT, IBM team up to give business students digital tech education
The New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark has teamed with IBM to deliver digital technologies and education through the university’s Martin Tuchman School of Management and its Business Analytics Lab.
The official launch of...
