The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum and Teaching

 Established in 1986, The New Jersey Project is the first, and still the only, statewide, state-funded curriculum transformation project in the nation. The Project encourages and supports curriculum and faculty development around issues of gender, race/ethnicity, class, culture and sexuality at New Jersey's four-year and two-year public and private colleges and universities. Winner of the national 1994 Progress in Equity Award from the American Association of University Women's Legal Advocacy Fund for innovative efforts to improve the climate for women on campus, the Project's broad array of activities are designed to support the work of educators and students who are engaged in creating a more inclusive scholarship, curriculum and pedagogy. The New Jersey Project is based at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, and is directed by Paula Rothenberg.

WHAT THE PROJECT DOES:

• Publishes Transformations: The New Jersey Project Journal, a nationally distributed journal of curriculum development, scholarship and pedagogy, which includes essays, bibliographies, syllabi, and other teaching resources.
• Conducts conferences, lectures and workshops at various locations in the State throughout the year, making the newest and best gender and multicultural scholarship and pedagogy available to educators on a regular basis.
• Published Creating An Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project (Teachers College Press, 1996), a collection of essays, bibliographies, and syllabi that describe and reflect gender and multicultural curriculum and course transformation generated by New Jersey college educators.
• Convenes New Jersey college educators and staff at an annual multi-day residential Summer Institute for intensive immersion in the new scholarship and pedagogy. Each Institute provides access to lectures, workshops, cultural events and films, resource exploration, and networking.
• Sponsors ALANA (African-American, Latina, Native American, Asian ) Women in Higher Education Network open to women of color at New Jersey colleges and universities.
• Conducts an annual Student Achievement Awards for Excellence in Feminist Scholarship Competition, open to undergraduate students at New Jersey's two- and four-year colleges and universities. The competition recognizes student work that applies gender and/or multicultural scholarship perspectives to any discipline or that focuses on women's contributions in any area of study. Monetary awards are presented to authors of ten winning student essays at an annual spring Awards Dinner featuring a noted speaker.
• Publishes the student awards competition's prize-winning essays in a booklet that is widely distributed and used in college and pre-college classes and workshops.
• Created the New Jersey Project Traveling Art Exhibit of works by women artists at New Jersey colleges, displayed on 11 campuses statewide in 1992 and 1993.
• Held a 1993 national conference on gender and multicultural curriculum and scholarship attended by more than 850 teachers and scholars from across the country.
• Works with organizations such as the American Association of University Women and the National and New Jersey SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Projects to encourage and support the inclusion of scholarship on gender and issues of diversity into K-12 curricula and pedagogy.
• Collects books, journals, bibliographies, syllabi, video lists, newletters, and other resources in a resource center at the Project office at William Paterson University.

 The New Jersey Project draws its staff from the two- and four-year colleges and universities in the State. It is funded by the support from a number of New Jersey institutions of higher education that serve as institutional partners. The Project's student awards competition as well as other activities receive support from corporate sponsors as well.