Rutgers Future Scholars to Cheer on Women's Basketball Team Saturday, Jan. 31

Nearly 200 Rutgers Future Scholars – eighth graders from Camden, Newark, New Brunswick and Piscataway, who are the first students to be selected for the program.

Students, sporting scarlet t-shirts will be guests at the Rutgers women’s basketball game against the University of South Florida as one of their on-campus activities

1:30 p.m. arrival by bus; game time is 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 31. Students will be seated in Section 110.

Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, N.J.

Established by Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick last year, the Rutgers Future Scholars Program is a groundbreaking initiative that aims to make a tuition-free college education possible for academically promising students who will be the first in their families to earn a four-year degree. Each year, 200 students about to enter eighth grade in public schools in Rutgers’ host communities of Camden, Newark, New Brunswick and Piscataway, will be selected as Rutgers Future Scholars on the basis of academic promise and economic need. Over the ensuing five years, the program will provide the students with academic and personal enrichment, mentoring and social development. Those who complete the program successfully and are admitted to Rutgers will attend tuition- and fee-free. They would enter Rutgers as members of the Class of 2017.