The NJCU Community Center’s mission is to link students with resources that empower and enhance self-determined success. The center strives to provide equal access to such resources that those who benefit without asking are often taken for granted.
These comprehensive resource availability areas include food and housing insecurity, nutrition and hygiene, professional clothing, mental health counseling, financial literacy, and rights of the undocumented. Students who are food insecure tend to face an array of obstacles limiting their self-determined ability to succeed. Therefore, by addressing all issues under one welcoming roof at the center, we increase overall success.
The term ‘community center’ focuses on the education ecosystem using equity, specifically and inclusion lenses. Placing community at the center is about access to nutrition and knowledge and creating an environment where people feel welcome, equal, and empowered to determine their path to prosperity.
Notably, the center strives to minimize the effects that stigma can impose on us all, inscribed over the center’s doors, ”In this Community, we are ALL needed.”
Our Vision is of an NJCU community that is thriving because everyone is valued, and everyone has access to the resources they can use to determine their success.
Our goals of the Community Center as laid out in detail below encompass five main areas within the Community Center
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Virtual Hours:
Monday-Friday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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For more information contact Barbara Ruggieri at communitycenter@njcu.edu