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Rider University is a private liberal arts university, and all of its degree opportunities are offered with majors in the fields of liberal arts. See the entire top 2,000 colleges and universities list A new residence hall, an expansion of the Moore Library, and an addition to the school’s large student theater have all been completed in the past decade.

This prestigious recognition is given to buildings created with a mission to conserve energy and natural resources. Since the year 2000, all of the university’s expansions have been approved and endorsed with a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. In recent years, Rider University has continued to expand. The school’s colors are cranberry and white in memory of the school’s first president.

Rider was a well-known cranberry farmer in the New England area and owned several acres of cranberry bogs. Rider University gets its name and its school colors from Andrew Jackson Rider, the first president of the school. The college experienced many changes over the next century including the admittance of women, the introduction of a liberal arts program of study, a move to nearby Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and a name change to Rider University. The school’s first president, a man named Andrew Jackson Rider, helped to grow the college to accommodate the needs of the increasing student population. The Trenton Business College was created in Trenton, New Jersey. * Rider Professors Ask Trustees to Remove President,, TownTopics.Immediately after the end of the United States Civil War, two entrepreneurs who had already founded a collection of business schools decided to expand their educational reach to the state of New Jersey. * Rider University starts year with possible faculty strike looming,, Noted alumni include Richard (Digger) Phelps, broadcaster and former University of Notre Dame basketball coach Harry Gamble, past president of Philadelphia Eagles William Mastrosimone, playwright. Announced new 2019 Bachelor of Arts in Game and Interactive Media Design, with courses in video game design, storytelling and development. Ranked tied for #50 (tie) in Best Regional Universities North in 2021 US News & World Report. Data Analytics Lab opened December 2018, centerpiece of $4.3 million renovation project to College of Business Administration. Facing substantial deficits in 2021-23 academic years and 20% decline in enrollment, faculty union approved resolution requesting that board of trustees terminate President Gregory Dell'Omo for alleged mismanagement, but board rejected resolution, declared support of Dell'Omo. Announced February 2022 plan for voluntary faculty, staff separations followed by potential terminations, fall 2022 asked faculty union to accept increases in health insurance, elimination of all benefits for adjunct faculty, lower starting salaries for lecturers, no annual raises and continuation of reduced contribution to retirement accounts. 70 undergraduate programs and 35 graduate programs. Westminster Choir College, prominent music conservatory with programs including music-teacher training, vocal and instrumental performance, sacred music, and research, with 23-acre site in Princeton, formerly independent school until 1992 merger with Rider, which announced July 2019 termination of proposed controversial sale of Westminster to Kaiwen Education, a for-profit Chinese company, Rider subsequently announced plan to shift Westminster programs from Princeton to its main campus in Lawrenceville.

Five academic units: College of Business Administration, College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences, College of Continuing Studies, and Westminster College of the Arts. Founded 1865 as Trenton Business College with first president Andrew Jackson Rider, relocated campus to Lawrenceville in 1959, now site of 350-acre main campus in Lawrenceville.
