The College of New Jersey was ranked #29 in the top 100 colleges on Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of Best Values in Public Colleges for 2017, up two spots from last year’s ranking. The ranking cites four-year schools that combine academic quality with affordability. TCNJ ranks #29 for in-state tuition, and tops the list of New…
Yearly Archives: 2016
TCNJ choirs are “Home Alone” with Philadelphia Orchestra
The words “trendy” and “orchestra” don’t often go together, but live symphonic performances of movie and video game soundtracks have risen in popularity recently. This holiday season, TCNJ choirs are joining the trend in what John Leonard dubs the most “high-profile musical collaboration our institution has ever had.” Eighty TCNJ students will contribute vocals to…
Lindsay Frevert ’05 enjoys red carpet treatment as winner of $25,000 national teaching award
Lindsay Frevert ’05, MEd ’10, had no idea a school-wide assembly would turn out to be a surprise celebration to recognize her as one of the nation’s most outstanding teachers. But that is what happened when Frevert, a second grade teacher at Van Derveer Elementary School in Somerville, New Jersey won the 2016 Milken Educators…
TCNJ gets a plug from Governor as winner of Electrify Your Workplace Competition
TCNJ took home the first-ever Certificate of Recognition for the New Jersey Charging Challenge: Electrify Your Workplace competition through the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection yesterday. The award recognizes the electric vehicle charging stations installed in TCNJ’s Metzger parking garage as an outstanding environmental project. The college partnered with PSE&G last year to bring five…
School of Business ranks in top 50 for undergrads
TCNJ’s business program is ranked #36 among undergraduate business programs in the nation, according to rankings released earlier this week by Poets&Quants. “This is the most thorough study of undergraduate business education ever undertaken, an amazing resource for prospective students and parents trying to make smart decisions about where to get the business basics for…
How Bunyad Bhatti is defying cultural conventions
Bunyad Bhatti tells much of her life story in numbers. Growing up, she attended nine different schools in 12 years. She lived in 14 homes, and in two countries. Keeping in line with cultural expectations of someday becoming a doctor, she spent her senior year of high school applying to pre-med programs—Muslim kids are groomed…
A message from President Gitenstein on the legacy of Dr. Paul Loser
To the Campus Community: In the last two days, aspects of Dr. Paul Loser’s past have been brought into focus on campus. The information that was shared first in posters and later in news articles is due to the diligent archival research of several of our students. I congratulate the students and their faculty mentor…
Sharon Byrne attains “Diva” status among NJ nurses
Sharon Byrne, co-chair and associate professor of nursing, will be honored at the New Jersey State Nurses Association Institute for Nursing’s annual Diva and Don Gala on Wednesday, December 7. She is one of 13 nurses who will be recognized at this year’s event for extraordinary contributions to the advancement of health care and the…
James Day to serve as interim dean of the School of the Arts and Communication
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jacqueline Taylor announced today that James Day has agreed to serve as the interim dean of the School of the Arts and Communication, effective January 1, 2017. Day joined the college in 1997 as artist faculty in the Music Department, where he led the guitar studies program and…