NJIT and Newark
"Enhancing the community that surrounds NJIT and campus life is important to both the growth of our urban university and to the prosperity of the city of Newark as a whole.” -- NJIT President Robert A. Altenkirch
About the Campus Gateway Project
The Campus Gateway Project is one of NJIT's key planning initiatives to improve the amenities available to the campus and local community. Enhancing campus life and the neighborhood around NJIT are important to the growth of NJIT as an urban university.
In 2006, NJIT began conversations with partners in the community, such as St. Michael’s Hospital and the James Street Association, to pursue this goal with work done around and by the University of Pennsylvania as a model. As a first step, NJIT signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Newark giving NJIT exclusive right to plan the redevelopment of the area.
