A third consecutive Northeast Conference championship highlighted what might have been the finest season in the history of Rider field hockey.

Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study was a recent guest in a Baccalaureate Honors Program seminar, entitled The Universe and the Origin of Life.

Navarrow Wright ’93 mentored a group of eight African-American entrepreneurs who traveled to Silicon Valley in order to seek venture capital investments in the CNN documentary ‘Black in America.’ He spoke about the experience at a prescreening of the program on November 10 in the Fireside Lounge.

The following is the faculty address presented by Dr. Joel C. Phillips, professor of Composition and Music Theory at Westminster Choir College, at the Founder’s Day Program on Saturday, November 5, 2011.

Rider University welcomed 61 new Andrew J. Rider Scholars at its annual Founder’s Day celebration on Saturday, November 5. Dr. Joel C. Philips delivered a stirring faculty address, urging students to rise above a culture that too often values homogeneous mediocrity.

The field of journalism is rapidly changing, and Rider alumni have evolved with it.