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|website = |logo = 150px }} Rider University is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university located chiefly in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It consists of five academic units: the College of Business Administration, the College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences, the College of Continuing Studies, and the Westminster College of the Arts. In addition to regional accreditation, the undergraduate and graduate programs in business are accredited by AACSB, and the professional education graduate programs are accredited by NCATE. As of 2014 there are 5,400 undergraduate and graduate students attending.〔(Rider at a Glance ), rider.edu.〕 ==History== The school was founded as The Trenton Business College on October 1, 1865, by Henry Beadman Bryant and Henry D. Stratton, operators of the Bryant and Stratton chain of private business schools. The school was located in Temperance Hall at the corner of South Broad and Front Streets in Trenton, New Jersey. Andrew J Rider was appointed as its first president.〔(Rider University - A Profile of Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ ). Philadelphia.about.com (2009-08-20). Retrieved on 2013-09-04.〕 President Rider owned 500 acres of cranberry bogs near Hammonton, New Jersey. According to tradition, this is why the school colors are cranberry and white. The school grew and periodically moved to larger quarters. In 1896 women were admitted. In 1897 the school was renamed The Rider Business College. President Rider stepped down the following year.〔 In 1957 Rider Business College introduced liberal studies leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree.〔 In 1921 the institution moved to East State Street in Trenton and officially became known as Rider College. In 1922 the New Jersey Board of Education granted Rider College permission to confer the degrees of Bachelor of Accounts and Bachelor of Commercial Science. in 1959 Rider College moved its campus to a 280-acre suburban tract on Route 206 in Lawrence Township, N.J. On November 15, 1961, President Franklin F. Moore (a 1927 alumnus of the college) announced the gradual reorganization of the college into five separate schools, each headed by a dean who would report to the provost. The changes took effect with the 1962-63 academic year. The five schools included a new School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Rider College merged with nearby Westminster Choir College, located in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1991-92. The campus of Westminster became the Princeton campus of Rider College. On April 13, 1994, the college became Rider University.〔(About Rider | Rider University ). rider.edu. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.〕 In 2007 President Mordechai Rozanski announced the creation of the School of Fine and Performing Arts to integrate the Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses and expand programming for the arts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Rider News )〕 Today, Rider’s Lawrenceville campus is home to its College of Business Administration; College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences; College of Continuing Studies, School of Education, and part of the Westminster College of the Arts, which is also located on the Princeton campus. In recent years President Rozanski announced new academic programs and new financial aid resources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rozanski Strikes Positive Notes at Fall Convocation - Rider University )〕 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「Rider University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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