As co-adviser of The Rider News, I was proud of the students’ coverage of class times in last week’s issue. I also think their findings should run up a red flag for departments.
Faculty may be surprised to realize that the story grew out of student dissatisfaction with the lack of morning classes. The News found [...]

According to a College of Continuing Studies (CCS) brochure, “When Rider opened its doors 144 years ago, Civil War veterans comprised most of the inaugural class.”
According to Michael Rosati, a CCS student and veteran of seven years of active duty with the U.S. Coast Guard, “Today, one in 12 Americans is a veteran and, given [...]

Here is a little story that happened to me the other day that I wish to share with the Rider community.
Walking down the hall, I met a student who was in my math class last year. I asked how she had been and what classes she was taking this semester. She responded that she was [...]

Recently Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) applauded the Corzine administration and congratulated herself for the increased number of New Jersey children now covered by health insurance.
Children’s health and access to quality affordable health care are issues of paramount concern to me, and the absence of access to health care greatly affects a notable segment of [...]

I really enjoyed reading your article about health care in the Oct.16 issue. There is a great deal of misinformation about this topic. Your article and the inset on page three focused perfectly on the kinds of coverage that college students, and all Americans, have and the changes that the Obama Plan would bring. Kudos [...]

We are very pleased that The Rider News chose to highlight the university’s classroom space issues in its last edition. The quality and availability of our instructional spaces affect our academic environment in important ways.  Well-equipped and comfortable classrooms are more conducive to learning, and with an inventory of additional available classroom space, our ability [...]

I was quite impressed with the humorous front-page headline on last week’s edition of The Rider News — especially since some of my students missed class to attend the canceled concert. But that initial impression quickly turned to confusion and disappointment. At the bottom of the Letters to the Editor section, The Rider News stated [...]

Reading the discussions in The Rider News about the recent visit of former Gov. Huckabee prompted my thinking. A major goal of a university is the development of students’ abilities for critical thinking based upon fundamental principles and correct information. Proper logical analysis of a problem or issue is often lengthy, unsuitable for time-limited verbal [...]

The response to Craig J. Peterson’s on the money letter about our basketball program and our gym proves my point that I have echoed in past letters to the editor that our administration and alumni base accept a mediocre men’s basketball program. All this talk of “the greatest three-year stretch in men’s basketball history” and [...]

After reading that inflammatory letter from fellow alumnus Craig J. Peterson, I simply had to respond. It is obvious that Craig has not been active as an alum, has not been on campus to see the changes that have been made or followed the fortunes of our men’s basketball team on a night-by-night basis.
First of [...]