Livingston College
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From 1969 to 2007 Livingston College was one of the residential colleges that comprised Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's undergraduate liberal arts programs. It was located on Livingston Campus in Piscataway, NJ. In the Fall of 2007 the New Brunswick-area liberal arts undergraduate colleges, including Livingston College merged into one School of Arts and Sciences
School of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)
The School of Arts and Sciences is an undergraduate constituent school at the New Brunswick-Piscataway area campus of Rutgers University. Established in 2007 from the merger of Rutgers' undergraduate liberal arts colleges and the non-student college known as the "Faculty of Arts and Sciences," the...

. A Livingston College graduation ceremony was still held each year until May 2010. The last vestiges of Livingston College will end when the students who had enrolled before the 2007 merger graduate.

Named after William Livingston
William Livingston
William Livingston served as the Governor of New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War and was a signer of the United States Constitution.-Early life:...

, the first post-colonial governor of New Jersey, Livingston College was founded in 1969 as the first coeducational, liberal arts college of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Rutgers College was men only and Douglass College was women only). The University states: "Livingston embodied the spirit of social responsibility and cultural awareness demanded by students of the time." The College was created in response to the socio-political changes in the United States during the 1960s. It was seen as a "safe" experimental college in that though only four years old, it was part of a 200 year old university. Academic departments created at Livingston college which had never previously existed at Rutgers included Journalism, and Urban Studies and Planning.http://uex.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/2/131

Like the other former liberal arts colleges — Douglass College, Rutgers College, University College (the night school), and the liberal arts facet of Cook College — Livingston College maintained requirements for admission, good standing, and graduation distinct from the other colleges. In 1982 Rutgers merged the faculties from these various colleges into a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Many questioned how long the various colleges would continue to exist under centralization, and by the turn of the century, many in the University's community were questioning whether these multiple colleges and their disparate academic requirements were serving the purposes for which they were each founded, or whether they had simply become redundant and inefficient - perhaps even victims of their own successes.

Notable alumni

  • Avery Brooks
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     (1973) — actor (Spenser: For Hire
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    , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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    ) and professor of Mason Gross School of the Arts
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    .
  • Thomas F. Daley (1975) — appellate judge, Louisiana circuit court
  • Michael DuHaime
    Michael DuHaime
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     (1995) — Republican strategist, deputy campaign manager and political director for Senator John McCain
    John McCain
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    's 2008 presidential campaign
  • Mark Helias
    Mark Helias
    Mark Helias is an American jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.He did not begin playing the double bass until the age of 20, graduating from Yale University's School of Music with a Masters degree in 1976. He has also studied at Rutgers University...

     (1974) — jazz musician
  • John S. Lipori (1975) — Exec. VP and Chief Trust Officer, The Bank of New York
    Bank of New York
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  • Eddie Jordan
    Eddie Jordan (basketball)
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     (1977) — NBA basketball player and Philadelphia 76ers
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     head coach
  • Phil Sellers
    Phil Sellers
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     (1976) — NBA basketball player for the Detroit Pistons
    Detroit Pistons
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  • Gregg Spiridellis (1993) — co-owner of JibJab Media
    JibJab
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  • Harry Swayne
    Harry Swayne
    Harry Swayne was an offensive tackle in the NFL that played from 1987-2001. He is one of the few players to have started a Super Bowl with three different teams: Super Bowl XXIX with the Chargers, Super Bowl XXXIII with the Broncos and Super Bowl XXXV with the RavensHe was the chaplain for the...

     (1990) — NFL football player

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