The Rutgers University Global Programs-New Brunswick, established in 1996 and located at 102 College Avenue, is dedicated to the study of global concerns and to the encouragement of cooperative ventures at the University, in New Jersey, in the United States, and abroad.

The Programs encompass two basic approaches to global issues. The first approach is determined by geographical region, representing five divisions of area studies: Africa, the Americas and Caribbean, Asia asked the Pacific Rim, Europe, and the Middle East. The second approach crosses all borders to examine international concerns ranging from war, hunger, epidemiology and drug addiction, to macroeconomics and business, to the rights of women and minority populations, to the creative arts.

Thus the Rutgers University Global Programs-New Brunswick embrace all the traditional disciplines of Arts and Sciences as well as the creative arts (Mason Gross School of the Arts), Agriculture (Cook College), Pharmacology, Education, and the interests of various Centers, Bureaus, and Institutes. The five regional divisions are governed by standing faculty committees working with the director of the Global Programs, while various international themes or problems (many of which change in response to a changing world) are entrusted to ad hoc faculty committees. In promoting study of these great regions and of the problems of our time, the Global Programs also promote foreign investment in our State, in cooperation with the New Jersey Higher Education International Network.

The Rutgers University Global Programs-New Brunswick supports the study of both undergraduates and graduates with special curricula in globe international studies, including honors programs for undergraduates and fellowship support for study and research abroad. In cooperation with the Study Abroad Office, Global Programs offers undergraduates from Rutgers and from other American colleges and universities the opportunity to study at universities around the world. Unlike such programs at most other American institutions, which provide classes taught only by their own faculty, Rutgers Study Abroad also enrolls students in local universities, so that they may work with professors and with other students from the host country.

Global Programs facilitates collaboration among Rutgers faculty and students and between the University community and foreign individuals and institutions, both private and governmental, by helping with the formal processes involved in bringing visitors (including students) to the University and by developing informal, more personal avenues of welcome.

Finally, the Rutgers University Global Programs-New Brunswick encourage initiatives in research and in international and interdisciplinary exchange by sponsoring a wide range of University and public events, including lecture series, symposia and conferences (all open to the public, as part of our educational mission to the State of New Jersey), and workshops for faculty and students, including foreign visitors.

The Priorities of Global Programs-New Brunswick are:

Director: Seth A. Gopin, Ph.D.