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Ramapo College arch. Ramapo College of New Jersey (RCNJ) is a public liberal arts college in Mahwah, New Jersey.It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. As of the fall 2021 semester, there were a total of 5,732 students enrolled at the college, including 576 graduate students and 11 doctorate students.
Ramapo (occasionally spelled Ramapough) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and southeastern New York State. They were named after the Ramapough, a band of the Lenape Indians who migrated into the area from Connecticut by the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The Anisfield School of Business is a business education institution located at Ramapo College of New Jersey. By educating students through business disciplines and liberal arts, the school has been a fixture at Ramapo College since 1979.
The student environment the College had been planned for was changing significantly in the years follow its founding. Student demands for career-oriented programs increased, demands were made for a business school, state funding was cut, and demographic changes resulted in decreasing levels of college-aged students entering institutions of higher education.
In 2022, the East Ramapo Central School District was reporting as having a $36 million deficit. [37] However, a 2024 audit discovered an unexpected $30 million cash surplus in the district's budget; poor record-keeping had caused district officials to believe they had less money than they actually did.
The Ramapo people were often referred to historically as the Jackson Whites, a term which they regard as being derogatory, [15] and according to legend, was either from the name of the Jackson White heirloom potato [16] or a distortion of Jacks and Whites, referring to their multiracial ancestry. [17]
Ramapo High School (New York) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title.
Ramapo is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States. It was originally formed as New Hampstead, in 1791, and became Ramapo in 1828. [2] It shares its name with the Ramapo River. As of the 2020 census, Ramapo had a total population of 148,919, making it the most populous town in New York outside of Long Island.