Marjorie Eyong

Marjorie Eyong is a writer from Northern New Jersey. She is a contributor for NJ Spark, a social justice website based around a student journalism lab at Rutgers University. She is currently in her last year as an undergraduate student at Rutgers, double majoring in Journalism and Political Science.

Guest Commentary

The Backyard of Higher Education

By Marjorie Eyong Student Guest Commentator

While the idea of prestigious universities being in the middle of extremely low income communities may not seem like a necessarily bad—though certainly questionable—thing, the larger issues become apparent when you look at the relationships between many of these universities and their home cities.

Rutgers University takes up a little less than half of the City of New Brunswick. Despite the wealth that it has, as a higher education institution…

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