City Historian to Launch Essex County Lecture Series on Tuesday

Rutgers-Newark Distinguished Service Professor Dr. Clement A. Price helps launch the 2014-2015 Presidential Lecture Series at Essex County College on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

The City of Newark’s Historian Dr. Price will talk on “Newark’s Long and Complicated History,” starting at 11:30 a.m., in Essex’s J. Harry Smith Hall, 303 University Avenue in Newark.

The program is free and open to the public.

Dr. Price received an honorary degree from Essex County College at the College’s 2014 Commencement. Although a longtime professor at Rutgers-Newark, Dr. Price was part of the first faculty at Essex County College in 1968-69. “Essex County College is an important part of Newark’s history and a major contributor to the city,” he said.

In addition to his teaching and work as the city historian, Dr. Price serves on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. He has been published widely and has written books on Afro-American History, race relations and modern culture in New Jersey and the nation. Dr. Price is also a trustee of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Chair Emeritus of the Newark Trust for Education and serves on the Save Ellis Island Foundation.

The Presidential Lecture Series was created by Essex President Dr. Gale E. Gibson. This is the first of several free lectures to be held over the next few months at the College.

About Essex County College

Essex County College is a fully accredited public community college with a total enrollment of more than 16,000 students pursuing Associate degrees and Certificates in more than 40 areas of study on campuses in Newark, West Caldwell (West Essex) and Cedar Grove (Police Academy).

Essex sends more transfer students to Rutgers, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Montclair State University than any other college. Since 2012, Essex has been the leading two-year institution in the nation in producing Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Transfer Scholars who receive up to a $90,000 award from this prestigious organization.

Ranked the most affordable two-year college in New Jersey by the U.S. Department of Education, Essex is New Jersey’s only two-year College designated a Predominantly Black and a Hispanic Serving Institution. Recently, Essex County College was selected as a 2014 Military Friendly School by Victory Media. For more information, click here.

Article courtesy of Wayne Yourstone, Essex County College