February 18, 2009

New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District race was one of the most carefully followed and scrutinized congressional races in the country last fall. Campaign managers, media consultants and pollsters for the candidates gave an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at their strategies and tactics of this campaign at the inaugural Managers Conference hosted by The Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics on February 13. The three-and-a-half-hour series of panel discussions was attended by Rider students, faculty and staff; campaign and legislative staffers; and special guests. More



Uchenna Duru ’08, M.B.A. ’10, has always been one to help those around her. In high school, Duru was always there to offer her time and assistance, whether it was through organized service trips or helping a classmate. "I love leadership, and I always loved service,” Duru said. “Someone once told me, ‘It’s more than being a Good Samaritan — you have a passion for serving others.’” More


Dr. Pearlie-Mae Peters had studied to become a secondary-school English and theater arts teacher while at Grambling State University, but was pushed by her professors to continue her education at the master’s and doctoral level. “My professors thought I had great potential,” said Peters, who graduated with the highest academic average in her program. Their instincts were correct, as Peters recently earned her most recent in a line of professional honors when she received the Modern Language Association Bibliography Fellows Award in San Francisco. More


Eligible employees have received an invitation to attend the semiannual TIAA-CREF Open Enrollment meeting scheduled for Friday, March 6, at 10 a.m. in Sweigart Auditorium. All eligible employees will be able to enroll in the University retirement plan effective April 2009. More
Headline News

  • Civil Rights Activist Challenges Campus to Recommit to Nation’s Principles
    Jesse Epps remembers vividly the horror of watching a black man being shot, dragged into the street and run over continuously by a car – all because he refused to step down from the sidewalk to let a white man and his daughters pass. “Because of that experience, I almost became a racist,” Epps told students, faculty and staff at the Black History Month keynote address held on Tuesday, February 10, in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater.

  • Sharing Knowledge, Learning a Culture
    Students in the Management Information Systems seminar, which Dr. Lauren Eder taught at the Universidad de Panama, came well prepared for the midterm. “They came in with ink cartridges and paper, and some students even brought in printers,” Eder said. “In an emerging country like Panama, people do what they need to do to get something done.” Similar to her class, Eder, the chair of the Department of Computer Information Systems, became resourceful and adaptable while she taught the Ph.D. seminar as part of a Fulbright Specialists Program during Rider’s winter break.

  • United for a Greater Community
    Rider University’s campaign in support of the United Way of Greater Mercer County is now under way. An independent nonprofit organization, United Way plays many roles in its work to address the underlying causes of human problems and to create lasting changes in people’s lives – turning donor investments into results that matter in our neighborhoods. Susan Christian, dean of Enrollment, is serving as the United Way coordinator because she has witnessed the great work that United Way has done to help people.

  • Westminster Choir College Presents ‘Canta Brasil’
    The Westminster Collegiate Chapter of the Music Educators National Conference will present Canta Brasil, an evening of choral music from Brazil, on Sunday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton. The concert is part the Brazil-Westminster initiative, which includes a partnership with Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and visits by four Brazilian music educators in the spring semester.

  • Materna Accepted into Academy for International Education
  • Dr. Linda Materna, the director of Rider’s Center for International Education, has been accepted into the NAFSA: Association of International Educators’ Academy for International Education. This nine-month program will provide Materna, along with 50 participants from various U.S. universities and institutions, the opportunity to broaden their base of knowledge and network throughout the field of international education.

  • School of Fine and Performing Arts to Present The Pillowman
  • The School of Fine and Performing Arts at Rider University will present The Pillowman, directed by Miriam Mills, at the Yvonne Theater, on Saturday, February 21; Friday, February 27; and Saturday, February 28, at 8 p.m. British playwright Martin McDonagh’s black comedy focuses on Katurian, a writer of short stories, living in an unnamed totalitarian state. He is arrested and brought in for interrogation because his dark, child-murder stories seem to be coming true, and it appears that the writer is inspiring someone to slay these innocent children.
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