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The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in the University Heights neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. NJIT is New Jersey's Science & Technology University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= State of New Jersey )〕 Centrally located in the New York metropolitan area its campus is within walking distance of downtown Newark. New York City, 9 miles (14.5 km) and under 30 minutes away, is directly accessible from campus via public transit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=PATH – The Port Authority of NY & NJ )〕 Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors, especially Edward Weston〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Incredible People )〕 (334 US Patents), NJIT opened as Newark Technical School in 1884. Application oriented from inception the school grew into a classic engineering college – Newark College of Engineering (NCE) – and then, with the addition of a School of Architecture in 1973, into a polytechnic university that is now home to five colleges and one school.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 NJIT opened with 88 students. As of fall 2014, the university enrolls more than 10,600 students, over 2,200 of whom live on campus.〔 Architecturally significant buildings include Eberhardt Hall, the Campus Center, and the Central King Building – in the Collegiate Gothic style – which is being renovated into a STEM center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=NJBIZ )〕 Planned facilities include a Wellness and Events Center that will house a 3,500-seat venue for social and sporting events.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Board of Trustees, NJIT )〕 NJIT offers 50 undergraduate (Bachelor of Science/Arts) majors and 78 graduate (Masters and PhD) programs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 Via its Honors College it also offers professional degree programs in collaboration with nearby institutions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= NJIT )〕 These include accelerated program in medicine (M.D.) with Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, St. George's University School of Medicine, and American University of Antigua, and an accelerated engineering + law program (BS, JD) with Seton Hall Law School. An early leader in distance learning – it trademarked the term "Virtual Classroom" – NJIT offers a wide range of on-line courses and degrees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= NJIT )〕 The university is organized into 27 academic departments. Three departments, Biological Sciences, History, and Theater Arts, are federated with Rutgers-Newark whose campus borders NJIT's.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Theatre Arts Program )〕 With a student population that is almost 20% international NJIT consistently ranks among the 10 most ethnically diverse national universities in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=USNews )〕 It has multiple study abroad options along with extensive co-op, internship, and service opportunities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 According to PayScale (2015–16) NJIT ranks 19th among Engineering Schools and 34th among Research Universities in the US by Salary Potential.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=PayScale )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=PayScale )〕 NJIT is categorized as a high research activity (RU/H) university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.〔Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark New Jersey ). Retrieved 26 April 2015.〕 Its NSF fundings were approximately $107 million in 2013, and $106 million in 2014, ranking #143 in both 2013, and 2014 amongst all of the universities that received research grants from the National Science Foundation.〔https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= NJIT )〕 Areas of focus include: applied mathematics,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education )〕 materials science, biomedical engineering, signal processing, transportation planning, and solar-terrestrial physics - of which the (Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research ) is a world leader. NJIT's mission includes economic development; two examples of which are the Enterprise Development Center (EDC), an on-campus business incubator that houses over 90 start-ups, and the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII).〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= NJIT )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 NJIT is Land-grant university. It is also a Sea-grant college, and a member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. A leader in the graduate education of students that are underrepresented in STEM fields, it has participated in the McNair Scholars Program since 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 The NJIT Highlanders (NCAA Division I) primarily compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference. == History == The New Jersey Institute of Technology has a history dating back to the early Industrial Age. Originally introduced from Essex County on 3-24-1880 and revised with input from the Newark Board of Trade in 1881, an act of the New Jersey State Legislature essentially drew up a contest to determine which municipality would become home to the state's urgently needed technical school. The challenge was straightforward: the state would stake "at least $3,000 and not more than $5,000" and the municipality that matched the state's investment would earn the right to establish the new school. The Newark Board of Trade, working jointly with the Newark City Council, launched a feverish campaign to win the new school. Dozens of the city's industrialists, along with other private citizens, eager for a work force resource in their home town, threw their support behind the fund-raiser. By 1884, the collaboration of the public and private sectors produced success. Newark Technical School was ready to open its doors. The first 88 students, mostly evening students, attended classes in a rented building at 21 West Park Street. Soon the facility became inadequate to house an expanding student body. To meet the needs of the growing school, a second fund-raiser—the institution's first capital campaign—was launched to support the construction of a dedicated building for Newark Technical School. In 1886, under the leadership of the school's dynamic first director, Dr. Charles A. Colton, the cornerstone was laid at the intersection of High Street and Summit Place for the three-story building later to be named Weston Hall, in honor of the institution's early benefactor. A laboratory building, later to be called Colton Hall, was added to the campus in 1911. Dr. Allan R. Cullimore led the institution from 1920 to 1949, transforming Newark Technical School into Newark College of Engineering (name adopted in 1930). Campbell Hall was erected in 1925, but due to the Depression and World War II, only the former Newark Orphan Asylum, now Eberhardt Hall, was purchased and renovated by the college in the succeeding decades. Cullimore left an unpublished history of the institution dated 1955. As of 1946, about 75% of the freshman class had served in the U. S. Armed Forces. Cullimore Hall was built in 1958 and two years later the old Weston Hall was razed and replaced with the current seven-story structure. Doctoral level programs were introduced and six years later, in 1966, an , four building expansion was completed. With the addition of the New Jersey School of Architecture in 1973, the institution had evolved into a technological university, emphasizing a broad range of graduate and undergraduate degrees and dedication to significant research and public service. While Newark College of Engineering remains, in 1975 a new university name—New Jersey Institute of Technology—was chosen to represent the institution's expanded mission. The establishment of a residential campus and the opening of NJIT's first dormitory (Redwood Hall) in 1979 began a period of steady growth that continues today under the Landscape Master Plan. Two new schools were established at the university during the 1980s, the College of Science and Liberal Arts in 1982 and the School of Industrial Management in 1988. The Albert Dorman Honors College was established in 1994, and the newest school, the College of Computing Sciences, was created in 2001. As of Fall 2013 there are 5 residence halls on campus: Redwood Hall, Cypress Hall, Oak Hall, Laurel Hall, and the Dorman Honors Residence, in addition to several Greek houses. In 2003, the launch of the new Campus Center on the site of the former Hazell Hall centralized campus social events. Construction of a new Atrium, Bookstore, Information Desk, Dining Hall, computer lab, and new student organization offices continued into 2004. In 2005, a row of automobile chop shops adjacent to campus were demolished. In 2006, construction of a new off-campus residence hall by American Campus Communities commenced in the chop shops' prior location. The new hall which opened in 2007 is dubbed the University Centre. Robert A. Altenkirch was inaugurated as president on May 2, 2003 and retired in 2012. He succeeded Saul K. Fenster, who was named the university’s sixth president in 1978.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 On January 9, 2012, NJIT Trustees named Joel Bloom president.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 Also in 2005, Eberhardt Hall was fully renovated and re-inaugurated as the Alumni Center and the symbolic front door to the university. Its restored tower was the logo of the former Newark College of Engineering and was designed by Kevin Boyajian and Scott Nelson. A rebranding campaign with the current slogan, "NJIT – New Jersey's Science and Technology University – The Edge in Knowledge", was launched to emphasize NJIT’s unique position as New Jersey's preeminent science-and-technology-focused research university. Recently, the school has changed its accredited management school into an AACSB-accredited business school. The business school focuses on utilizing technology to serve business needs. The school benefits from its close location to New York City; the financial capital of the world. It is located 25 minutes from Wall Street. The school has also strong academic collaboration with Rutgers business school. NJIT has a tie-up with Heritage Institute of Technology for summer internships. In 2009, the New Jersey School of Architecture was transformed into the College of Architecture and Design (CoAD). Within the college, the New Jersey School of Architecture continues, and it is joined by the newly established School of Art + Design. In June 2010, NJIT officially completed its purchase of the old Central High School building which sits in between NJIT and Rutgers–Newark campus. With the completion of the purchase, ''Summit Street'' (from ''Warren Street'' to ''New Street'') would be totally converted into a pedestrian walkway from a public street. The existing old 'Central High School' building is earmarked to be extensively renovated, preserved and used as classrooms as per the Campus Master Plan〔() 〕 which includes tearing down of ''Kupfrian Hall'' to create more greenery. Travel and Leisure's October 2013 issue named the university among America's ugliest college campuses, citing the 2013 Princeton Review survey which rated it as the least beautiful college campus in the country, and noting that the university "suffers from a mishmash of architectural styles" ranging from the "Gothic" Eberhardt Hall, a former orphans' asylum, to the "crematorium Modernism" Redwood residence hall. As of the fall of 2014, the university has 7,550 undergraduate students, 3,096 graduate students, and 489 full-time and adjunct faculty. The male-to-female student ratio is about 3.2:1 and the student-to-faculty ratio is 18:1. The university awarded 2,242 degrees in 2014 including 1129 Bachelors, 1058 Masters, and 55 PhDs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=NJIT )〕 Enrollment, currently at 10,646,〔 is projected to reach 14,248 by 2020. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Jersey Institute of Technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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