District 15 Senator Shirley K. Turner (D) Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D) Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) Rutgers People in District 15   5,627   Alumni   1,058   Undergraduate and Graduate Students   841   Continuing Ed Students Enrolled Locally   562   Faculty/Staff   8,088   Total

Rutgers Programs, Initiatives, and Facilities in District 15

• Trenton Academic Center: Connecting state legislators and officials with Rutgers, from student internships to a graduate course on state budgeting (Trenton)
• Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program: Helping limited-resource families make healthy nutrition choices (Ewing, Lawrence Township, Trenton)
• NJ Hospital Quality Initiative: Helps hospitals improve quality of care for patients with congestive heart failure in New Jersey (Trenton)
• NJ Small Business Development Centers: Low-cost and no-cost services for small business (Ewing, Trenton)
• Rutgers Cooperative Extension: Science-based information and outreach in such areas as gardening and composting, 4-H youth development, food and nutrition, family and community health sciences (Pennington, Trenton)
• Continuing and Professional Education Courses: Keeping the state’s workforce current (Ewing, Lawrence Township, Pennington, Princeton, Trenton)

Rutgers-K–12 Partnerships in District 15

• Teens Teaching Middle School Youth Workforce Preparation: Teambuilding, goal-setting, job exploration, and character education activities for more than 700 middle school youth (Trenton)
• Center for Effective School Practices: Research-based classroom innovations to improve pre-K through 12th grade learning (Trenton)
• NJ Civic Education Consortium: Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics program to increase voter turnout and engagement in civic life (Lawrence Township, Princeton)

Did You Know?
Through the summer 4-H Youth Farmstand Program, at-risk youth from Trenton learn important workforce preparation skills and are motivated to stay in school. The program is a collaboration of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Mercer County 4-H Youth Development, Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and the Mercer County One-Stop Career Center. The program stresses job attainment and survival, workplace skills, leadership and self-development, and personal skills. In 2006, teams of youths operated two “Jersey Fresh” farm stands in Trenton every Tuesday through Thursday, with each team responsible for inventory, ordering, delivery, marketing, customer relations, and cash transactions. Positive impact on the community extended even past the program’s participants: 16 percent of farm stand sales were to senior citizens and young families via the Farm Market Nutrition Program produce voucher program, and local farmers provided 93 percent of the produce sold at the farm stands. The program ended with a closing ceremony in which the youths received recognition and profit sharing checks.

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