District 7 Senator Diane B. Allen (R) Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr. (D)*Rutgers Alum* Assemblyman Jack Conners (D) *Rutgers Alum* Rutgers People in District 7   5,255   Alumni   1,270   Undergraduate and Graduate Students   330   Continuing Ed Students Enrolled Locally   195   Faculty/Staff   7,050   Total

Rutgers Programs, Initiatives, and Facilities in District 7

• Continuing and Professional Education Courses:Keeping the state’s workforce current and offering citizens opportunity for professional advancement (Beverly City, Cinnaminson, Delran)
• Rutgers Against Hunger: donated $20,000 to area food banks including CFBNJ Southern Branch( Burlington)
• NJ Small Business Development Centers Branch Office: Low-cost and no-cost services for small business (Mount Holly, Westampton)
• Rutgers Cooperative Extension: Science-based information and outreach in such areas as food and nutrition, family and community health sciences, and 4-H youth development (Mount Holly)

Rutgers-K–12 Partnerships in District 7

• BizEd: Introduction to college-level business education for outstanding high school students (Cinnaminson, Delran)
• D’Arts Distance Learning in the Arts: Live interactive art and theater classes through videoconferencing (Riverside, Riverton)
• Douglass Autism Outreach: Training in applied behavior analysis for educators of children with autism spectrum disorders (Burlington)

• Eagleton State House Express: provides grants to NJ middle and high schools to rent a bus for a trip to Trenton and a visit to the State (Westampton)

   

Did You Know?
As employment opportunities become increasingly linked to technology and communications and less tied to manual, skill-based jobs, employers need access to a highly literate workforce. With the goal of strengthening Burlington County’s business landscape, the Burlington County Workforce Investment Board has contracted with the Rutgers–Camden Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs to conduct a literacy needs assessment among workers in six targeted industries: transportation; manufacturing; health science; education and training; hospitality and tourism; and the service sector. The institute has developed and distributed a survey to human resource managers and is conducting interviews with HR personnel working for the county’s largest businesses. And, finally, Rand staff will conduct interviews with county adult literacy service providers. The goals of the assessment are to provide an indication of the prevalence of illiteracy in industry, identify gaps in programs available to businesses, provide strategies to overcome those obstacles, and determine how best to meet the literacy expectations of Burlington County businesses.

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