Innovative Theater Class Bridges Divide Between Newark and RU-N Students

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Rutgers University | As part of Rutgers University–Newark's Strategic Plan and Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s vision of publicly engaged humanities, Professor Ian Watson and world-renowned theater activist-educator Krzysztof Czyżewski have developed a class that puts socioeconomically disadvantaged kids from Newark in class with RU-N students and enables them to nurture common bonds through storytelling.