For 19 years, the Visiting Writers Series has brought nationally celebrated authors to campus. While pandemic constraints required a change of format for fall 2021, two writers — award-winning novelist Yaa Gyasi and poet Victoria Chang — visited for virtual readings over Zoom. But the series is more than inviting guest speakers to inspire TCNJ’s budding creative…
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President Foster named to NCAA Division III Presidents Council
TCNJ President Kathryn A. Foster has been named to the NCAA Division III President’s Council and will begin her term in January 2022. She will also serve as the chair of the New Jersey Athletic Conference President’s Council for the next two years. “This is a historic time in the NCAA as members rewrite the…
Campuswide solar project begins this month with installation of parking lot solar arrays
The College of New Jersey is taking major strides toward a more sustainable campus as it breaks ground on a campuswide solar project this month. The project consists of five solar arrays — a collection of solar panels that generate electricity as a system — that will be located in parking lots and building roofs…
True Blue, with hearts of gold
TCNJ’s campus police are walking the walk when it comes to community policing. The 29-member department has built relationships with a host of constituencies and been involved in a raft of events and initiatives on campus and in the college’s neighboring communities. In recent years, TCNJ campus police have spearheaded food and toy drives and…
TCNJ receives bronze in the Global Equity & Inclusion Scorecard for Global Education Programming
The College of New Jersey has completed Diversity Abroad’s Global Equity & Inclusion Scorecard and earned a Bronze rating. This assessment tool leverages Diversity Abroad’s Global Equity & Inclusion Guidelines, and is a gold standard for identifying, implementing, and evaluating diversity and inclusion policies and practices in the field of global education. Taking a systematic…
TCNJ announced as 2021 ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge award winner
Today, the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge hosted its third biennial awards ceremony to recognize select higher education institutions, educators, and students for their extraordinary work in student voter engagement during the 2020 presidential election. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and most students learning virtually, the honorees ensured students across the country could cast their ballots. …