The College of New Jersey Board of Trustees announced today that Dr. Michael Bernstein has been selected as TCNJ’s interim president for a two-year term beginning on July 1, 2023. An accomplished educator and administrator, Bernstein is provost emeritus at Stony Brook University, having previously served as that institution’s interim president from August 2019 through…
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Kinesiology professor Avery Faigenbaum earns honor from American College of Sports Medicine
Avery Faigenbaum, a professor in The College of New Jersey’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, has won the American College of Sports Medicine’s 2022 Best Paper of the Year award for the second time in three years. This year’s winning article explores the intersections between physical and mental health, as well as the impact of COVID-19…
TCNJ ECE faculty member Ambrose Adegbege wins Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Nigeria
Ambrose Adegbege, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering for the 2023–2024 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He will head to Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. While abroad, Adegbege will work with scholars in Nigeria on an area of…
TCNJ cuts ribbon on solar arrays to enhance sustainability efforts
The College of New Jersey hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning to celebrate the five solar arrays located in parking lots and building roofs across campus. Greenskies Clean Focus, a national leader in renewable energy solutions, funded the projects at no upfront cost to TCNJ, who will purchase the power generated by the arrays from Greenskies…
TCNJ’s Vienne Park named to Sigma Delta Pi Board of Student Advisers
Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, named Vienne Park ’23 to its Board of Student Advisers. Park, a speech-language pathology and audiology and Spanish double major, began her two-year term in March 2023 and joins a very active and well-established BSA that was founded in 2016. This seven-member board represents SDP members…
Longtime faculty members retire this month
Five of TCNJ’s most beloved faculty members are retiring this month and while we wish them well, let’s face it — we’re already missing them. Deborah Compte, professor, world languages and cultures Compte, professor of Spanish, joined the college in 1990 and has taught Spanish language courses, as well as senior seminar and graduate topics courses…
TCNJ accounting and marketing programs earn high marks from WSJ
This spring, The Wall Street Journal released its rankings of the top marketing and accounting programs in the country and The College of New Jersey ranked among the best in the nation for public colleges. The accounting program ranked ninth for post-graduate accounting salaries ($74,581) over the first 10 years following graduation and the marketing program ranked 16th for post-graduate marketing…
TCNJ students, alum named finalists for 2023–24 Fulbright U.S. Student Award
Maeve Franklin ’23, Serina Montero ’23, and Jennifer Choi ’18, MAT ’19 were recently named Fulbright Finalists for the 2023–24 academic year. They will participate in the English Teaching Assistant Program, which places teachers in classrooms abroad to provide assistance to the local English teachers. ETAs help teach English language while serving as cultural ambassadors for the U.S.…