Lions pride was on display on November 2, 2017 as 1,455 alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends came together to raise $288,562 in just 24 hours as part of the college’s third annual Day of Giving. This year’s effort was part of the 18.19.20 fundraising initiative honoring President Gitenstein. This year’s totals top the 1,046…
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ABC journalist asks TCNJ: “What would you do?”
John Quiñones, host of ABC’s “What Would You Do?” spoke to a packed house in Brower 100 on Tuesday, October 31, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. During his talk, he recounted the obstacles he faced in pursuing his dream career and asked the campus crowd to consider question, “When you witness an injustice, do…
Dan Crofts, professor emeritus of history, talks Civil War and “compromise” with The Washington Post
TCNJ announces creation of new center for health and wellness
The College of New Jersey announced today the creation of a new center for health and wellness. The center will continue the counseling work that had previously been housed in the TCNJ Clinic, in addition to providing increased educational and health and wellness resources for the campus and community. “The creation of this center expands…
A gift for the pride
If you attended homecoming last weekend, perhaps you caught a glimpse of him or even rubbed his nose. He’s three feet high and 3,000 pounds, with a perfectly bronzed complexion. We are of course talking about the William M. McLagan (Trenton State College, Class of 1987) Lion, the newest campus adornment, which was officially unveiled…
Rafiatu Nawuridam studies in Jordan, thanks to Boren Scholarship
TCNJ junior Rafiatu Nawuridam is spending the 2017–18 academic year in Jordan, thanks to a $20,000 Boren Scholarship. Nawuridam, an international studies major with a specialization in Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic, is studying Arabic—both Modern Standard Arabic and Ammiya, the Levantine Arabic dialect spoken among Jordanians, Syrians, Palestinians and Lebanese—at the…
History faculty publish new book based on late colleague’s scholarship
TCNJ history faculty members Christopher Fisher and Robert McGreevey have completed a book, Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century, recently published by Oxford University Press. The book explores how Americans were “swept up in the swift-moving currents of twentieth-century world history,” according to Oxford, and is based largely on the scholarship of…
TCNJ receives 2016–17 Division III CAANJ Cup
TCNJ Athletics was named the recipient of the Division III Collegiate Athletic Administrators of New Jersey Cup for the 2016–17 academic year. The award, which is voted upon by the 43 member institutions of the CAANJ, recognizes overall athletic excellence. It is the 13th time in the past 20 years that the college has earned…