The Establishment of Rider’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences emerged from an idea hatched years before, according to Dr. Walter A. Brower '48, dean emeritus of the School of Education and perhaps the foremost authority on Rider history.

Veteran New York sports media columnist Phil Mushnick told students that the best play is to always deal with readers and viewers in good faith during a visit to the Lawrenceville campus on November 16.

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

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.