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U. athletics build success in Big Ten with new facility fundraiser Erica D’Costa Associate News Editor
Over the next few decades, Rutgers will unfold $100 million in new and improved facilities for its athletes. In 2016, the Athletics Department announced the launch of “R Big Ten Build,” a campaign to raise funds for new and improved facilities that would put the University on par with other Big Ten schools. Since its commencement, Rutgers has received several donations to the project, including the most recent $15 million gift from alumni Gary and Barbara Rodkin — the biggest donation the Athletics Department has ever received. The University collaborated with RWJBarnabas Health and has already raised more than $92 million from more than 3,000 donors. It will distribute the funds to create several premier training facilities and centers for athletes around campus, according to the campaign’s website. The first phase of these developments consists of three facilities — a Multisport Training Complex (RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center), the Gar y and Barbara Rodkin Center For Academic Success with tutors and academic support for athletes and an enhanced Football Training Complex at the Hale Center. A livestream of the RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center construction can be viewed on the department’s website. The
A mock up image of the new Gary and Barbara Rodkin Center For Academic Success is just 1 of 3 new additions that the University looks to build over the coming decades. FACEBOOK facility will have state-of-the-art locker rooms, practice venues, strength-training and sports medicine suites, coaches’ offices and meeting rooms. The project will include a four-story parking structure connected to the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC). “We are incredibly excited about this project,” said Pat Hobbs, director of Athletics, to Rutgers Today. “The RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center will make a tremendous difference in the lives of our students and the competitiveness of our programs.”
More than 600 student athletes will benefit from the project, and it is expected to cost a total of $115 million, according to Rutgers Today. NJ Advance Media reported that the Rutgers Athletics Department had a $47.3 million deficit — the department’s largest — from 2016-17. In addition, last month The Daily Targum reported that Rutgers Athletics spent $99.2 million, overspending its 2017 operating budget by $2.3 million. Hobbs previously said that the University is demonstrating a
commitment to the Big Ten Conference, the Targum reported. “We have to gain competitiveness now. With an expectation and some certainty around future stream of payments, you can model that financially where it allows us to make investments today that we’ll pay off in the future,” he said. The payments refer to when Rutgers will officially become a full-equity partner in Big Ten revenue shares in the 2020-21 season. As of right now, the University is focused on bringing a ray of new resources to student athletes
Dutta discusses state of research at Rutgers Ryan McAuliffe Contributing Writer
Chancellor Debasish Dutta’s department continued its ongoing Campus Conversations series on Monday with a town hall-style meeting discussing the state of research at Rutgers. “The goal of the Campus Conversations is to bring faculty, staff and students together to have a conversation around the topics we think are critically important for the future of the campus,” Dutta said. The latest conversation sought to engage with faculty and to invite ideas and involvement into the University’s most important functions — education and research. Previous campus conversations focused on the University’s position within the Big Ten and on graduate
education, according to the Office of the Chancellor. “The topic of this evening was research. We are a research university. We are doing reasonably well in research,” Dutta said. Rutgers is focused on both research and education, according to the presentation. This has been the case since 1924, when the University introduced its first graduate education programs. Rutgers began its path as a research organization in 1864, when it was awarded a land-grant by the U.S. government for the purpose of teaching agriculture and engineering in response to the Second Industrial Revolution. The University’s research spending has been steadily increasing See RESEARCH on Page 4
that represent the school on a national stage. “Rutgers Athletics will be in a position to generate a positive cash flow for the University after we receive our full share of Big Ten revenues in 2021. Membership in the Big Ten brings numerous benefits for Rutgers students, faculty and researchers, including shared academic resources and research collaborations with our peer institutions in the Big Ten,’’ said Karen Ayres Smith, a Rutgers spokesperson, in a statement to NJ Advance Media.
CAPS celebrates 1 year of successful group counseling Kelly Kim Staff Writer
Chancellor Debasish Dutta met with faculty, staff and students for the latest installment of the Campus Conversations series that discusses vital topics at Rutgers. CASEY AMBROSIO / FEBRUARY 2018
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The Center for Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of its “meso practice” model, a program created to expand discussions of mental health across campus. Also referred to as “community-based counseling,” the meso practice is a marriage between individual and community health at large, said Annmarie Wacha-Montes, assistant director for Community Based Services at CAPS. The See COUNSELING on Page 4