{"id":304516,"date":"2026-10-11T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304516\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:10:07","slug":"rutgers-to-receive-millions-to-help-students-graduate-with-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304516\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers to receive millions to help students graduate with jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAMDEN (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Rutgers University is receiving millions of dollars in federal grant money to help students launch their careers.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education awarded Rutgers\u2019 Camden campus a Strengthening Institutions Program Grant of more than $2.9 million over five years \u2014 $582,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>The money will be used to expand the number of available internships and provide additional mentorship and career coaching for undergrads through the Career Readiness and Internship Success Program.<\/p>\n<p>Marsha Lowery, Vice Chancellor for Student Academic Success, said that the grant \u201callows us to\u2026 prepare students not only to graduate, but to succeed in a rapidly evolving workforce.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She said that CRISP will improve both student retention and graduation rates, and increase the number of students graduating with jobs. <\/p>\n<p>The Strengthening Institutions Program aims to help broaden colleges\u2019 ability to serve low-income students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAMDEN (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Rutgers University is receiving millions of dollars in federal grant money to help students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8054,13483,69,71,70,125085],"class_list":["post-304516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-department-of-education","tag-federal-grants","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-rutgers-university-camden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}