The New Jersey Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Support programs will initially be capitalized with $500,000.

Barbara Ridener began her career in an elementary school classroom and rose to become a top academic leader at Florida Atlantic University.

Set to begin in the fall, students can take advantage of the incentives while pursuing five-year undergraduate and graduate tracts.

The study charges that for-profit colleges use aggressive and sometimes fraudulent recruitment tactics and spend more on marketing and advertising than on their education programs.

“A staggering 11.2 percent of graduate and undergraduate students experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, according to the Rape Abuse Incest National Network,” Assemblywoman Annette Quijano, a sponsor of the legislation, said in a statement. “We need to do more to reduce incidents of sexual violence, starting with assessing how allegations are investigated, holding abusers accountable and ensuring survivors have the support they need.”

Judith Sheft brings nearly 20 years of expertise in New Jersey’s innovation ecosystem to her new position and spent the past 18 years as an associate vice president at NJIT.

“Too often, students do not recognize that liberal arts and science degrees are extremely sought after by the business world,” Christopher Kaiser, associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, told NJBIZ. “Doing it in an intensive boot camp style was one way to meet the students where they are.”

The university collaborated with the New Jersey Innovation Institute, a New Jersey Institute of Technology corporation, to offer a professional science master's degree program and professional graduate certificate in the fields.

The arrangement is retroactive to Sept. 1, and enables HCCC students who complete an associate in science degree in business administration to transition to the New Jersey City University bachelor of science in finance program with full junior status.

The new facility is home to the computer science department and the Mary Jane and Frank Semcer Sr. ’65 Center for Healthcare Innovation.

The College of New Jersey says the grant will provide five years of funding for a new tenure-track female faculty member in the physics department.

“Apprentice programs have been around for a long time,” said Jennifer Myers, director of workforce development at the National Association of Landscape Professionals. “Even if people do not know landscaping, they know apprenticeships. … The apprenticeship program is a more formalized way to get folks into our industry.”