Mission Statement

The Office of Graduate Student Life at Rutgers University – New Brunswick advocates and supports holistic services that advance a vibrant graduate student experience. The Office encourages the intellectual exchange of ideas to enrich personal development, life skills, leadership and global citizenship while cultivating partnerships across disciplines where wellness, academic excellence, identities, and life pursuits intersect.

Keep up to date with all graduate student events, highlights and important annoucements with our monthly newsletter!

Upcoming Events

The Rutgers’ Cultural Center Collaborative Presents: Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Week

When: 1/27/2020 – 1/29/2020

The Rutgers Cultural Center Collaborative presents:
The 4th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Week
January 27-29, 2020

Keynote Event: Demanding Freedom As Justice
Monday, January 27, 2020
Starting at 6:30pm 

Location: College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room

This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, who holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Graduate Student Faculty and Staff Spring Welcome Reception & Resource Fair

When: February 5th, 2020

Time:  4:00PM – 8:00PM

Where: 126 College Avenue, College Avenue’s Multipurpose Room (MPR).

Once again the Graduate Student Life Department welcomes you back to Graduate School with a Spring Welcome Reception in your honor. All grad students, faculty and staff associated with graduate students and their families are welcome to meet, be informed about the services open to you as a grad student, and be entertained by the “Deans of Love” and “TILT”.

Admission is free along with free food and refreshments.

To register and print tickets please follow the following link:

http://RUGradWelcome2020.eventbrite.com

RU Late Knight Spring 2020 Presents: ‘Winterfest’ & ‘Flashback Friday’

When:  1/24/2020 & 1/31/2020

Where: The Livingston Student Center (Winterfest) on Friday the 24th.

Student Activity Center (Flashback Friday) on Friday 31st.

FREE every Friday

Time: 9pm – 1am.

Winterfest

Winter themed party with winter novelties such as: Inflatable snow globes, snowflake photos, s’mores, hot chocolate and more!

There will be a midnight food bar accompanied by vegan chili options.

Flashback Friday

Flashback to when you were a kid with life size games, candy art, and a stuff-a-plush bear for the first 100.

Plus a cereal midnight food bar.

**Volunteer Options

For those looking to volunteer, meet and socialize with other volunteers, please email the following for more information:

http://bit.ly/lateknightvol

All volunteer shift starts at 8pm and ends at 1am.

For your first shift you will receive a free black t-shirt, and your second will earn you a cool-wick neon green t-shirt and more!

The Office of Disability Services is currently recruiting graduate students to serve as proctors in the exam unit for Spring 2020.

To help coordinate our students’ accommodations, the Office of Disability Services employs various auxiliary staff such as sign language interpreters, CART providers, note takers and proctors.

Proctors

Application Deadline: January 27th, 2020.

***Training for qualified candidates on January 31st from 4:00 – 6:00 PM and February 4^th from 8:00 – 10:00 AM. Qualified candidates will receive an invitation to register for and attend the whichever training session best fits their schedule.

Proctors are graduate students hired as needed by our office to oversee the implementation of exam arrangements made by our office.  Those interested in being hired as a proctor should fill out the linked form.  After submission, a representative from our office will contact you regarding the next available training date.

After being hired from our office you will be provided with an Employee Identification Form from your supervisor. Once completed, you will be scheduled by them to meet with our Administrative Assistant, Helene Peters who will put you onto payroll.

For this meeting, you must have the following:

• Your Completed Employee Identification Form (provided at training)
• Work Agreement (provided at training)
• Appropriate I-9 documentation – See the list of acceptable documents