positive results were gained from the meeting with the board of governors, including the hiring of robert culvan and clement alexander price, rutgers continues to struggle in enrollment and retention. according to one of the most recent fact books, only 9 of the 167 tenured professors, that would make it 5%, are black women and men on the newark campus. from a total of 5336 admitted first year undergraduate students, 658 are african-american. historians have long grappled with analyzing how individuals and groups perform collective memory work. while commemorative practices they generate and how a cultivated view of the past is politically constructed. nongrowth of a two-year project on the historical construction of identities at rutgers university entitled "commemorations the politics of national identity" was a collection that considers the role of public commemoration within the formation of collective memory. historian john gillis' chapter presents a useful lens because it explains that identities and memories are not things we think about, but things that we think with. the commemoration a