Dr. Ellen & Dr. Jeffrey Kaiden Urban Educator Scholarship
Ellen Kaiden, Ed.D. established the Drs. Ellen and Jeffrey Kaiden Urban Educator Scholarship at the Ramapo College Foundation in 2005. Ellen Kaiden is a professor of Reading and Education in the School of Social Science and Human Services. Her husband Jeffrey is an ophthalmologist practicing in Westwood, NJ. The intent of the Kaiden Scholarship is to recognize students who see the value in promoting education among urban populations and encourage them to pursue a career teaching in an urban environment.
Ellen Kaiden has been involved with Ramapo’s Teacher Education program for many years. In 1990 she secured a federal grant to create the Student Literacy Corps course, a program which continues to this day. The Student Literacy Corps course educates Ramapo students about illiteracy, provides them with the tools to remediate this problem and includes a required service- learning component in an urban Bergen or Passaic County school.