Meet Our Partners

Center for Global Security and Democracy

The Center for Global Security and Democracy produces and teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to build a more secure and democratic world. Through global relationships with universities, NGOs, citizens’ groups, local and national governments, and corporate partners, CGSD harnesses the resources of Rutgers and the community to promote informed action. The Center unites theory building with fieldwork, bringing scholars, students, policymakers, civic leaders, and citizens together in practical efforts to analyze, design and build functioning political institutions. The Center was established in 1997 in response to the dramatic changes that overwhelmed the Cold War order. As we enter the 21 st century, the Center's focus is the two-way linkage between security and democracy, with security understood as security of person as defined by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and democracy understood not as culturally or historically specific, but as dynamic, flexible and open. In recent years, CGSD projects have been funded by partner universities such as Balamand University (Lebanon), Tallinn Pedagogical University (Estonia) and University of Natal (South Africa), by NGOs such as Mongolian Women for Social Progress, Estonian National Center for Nonprofits (NENO), Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (CPRI) and Partners of the Americas, by governmental agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development, by the US Departments of Defense and State, and by the European Union.

Office of the Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in Arts and Humanities

The Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities, a newly created office at Rutgers , is dedicated to fostering collaborative co-curricular programming and forming public partnerships to bring faculty and students together with visiting scholars, visual and performance artists, civic leaders, community activists, alumni, and business and government leaders.

Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper

Founded in 1986, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper was is an international, national, and regional center for cutting-edge printmaking ideas and education. As part of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Center is a learning place where students serve as interns and work with the master printers and papermakers. The mission of the Center is to provide the opportunity for artists who are contributing new narratives to the American cultural mainstream to create new work in print and paper in collaboration with master printers and papermakers. The Center invites artists to be in residence to collaborate with the printers and papermakers under three specific programs: the National Printmaking Fellowship Program, the New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship Program, and the International Fellowship Program. The Center also offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the Department of Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts that lead to BFA and MFA degrees.