price founded the institute on ethnicity, culture, and the modern experience in 1997 at rutgers university-newark, an interdisciplinary academic center that, through public partnerships and programming, offers the newark metropolitan area the finest thinkers and artists engaged with key issues of modern life. its motivating belief is in the centrality of creativity and critical thinking to the continued revitalization of greater newark and the nation. the institute is considered the culmination of his life's work, and works with community partners, scholars, and artists to bring the important civic issues in race, culture, and newark into public discourse through public programming. the institute was renamed for price on february 20, 2015 as the clement a. price institute on ethnicity, culture, and the modern experience.