“It is so important to have spaces like Douglass. It’s a community that’s open to discussion, where being passionate is encouraged and your lived experience is celebrated. To be a leader, you need to know and learn about yourself as well as your community. Douglass is the place to do that.” - Jaiden Radocyz DRC’26, comparative literature major and future librarian 

We are in a transformative time for Douglass. With Chancellor Conway’s Academic Master Plan, Rutgers–New Brunswick is charting the course for change that will uniquely empower students to lead, solve the grand challenges of our day, address injustice, and continue to make the world a better place. Douglass, with its dynamic living-learning community, innovative programs, and long history of producing thoughtful, hard-working students with agency, is an essential part of this vision.

The Douglass Residential College Renewal & Innovation Fund provides necessary funding for Douglass to add programs, expand academic and enrichment opportunities, partner with other units throughout the university, develop capital improvement plans, and prioritize student wellness, health, and safety. These improvements are all in service of improving the Douglass student experience, learning spaces, and re-establishing Douglass as a thriving residential destination and nexus for academic activity, student programming, and research.