Bruce Stout, a criminologist at The College of New Jersey, was quoted in an article in The Star-Ledger that highlighted a drop in homicide rates for the state. He argued that the declining crime rate shows longer prison sentences don’t help.
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Sustainable Jersey honors awarded to Hunterdon County’s Union Township
Sustainable Jersey, a collaborative effort between the League of Municipalities Mayors’ Committee for a Green Future and the Municipal Land Use Center at The College of New Jersey, awardedHunterdon County’s Union Township “Sustainable Jersey” certification for outlawing development on sections of 200 properties, which include parks, streams and wooded areas.
Living in ‘Box City’
The Times of Trenton reported on a group of students at The College of New Jersey who spent last night in cardboard boxes in an effort to bring awareness to the issue of homelessness in the local community.
Then and now: WTSR
Since its early echoes in ’50s dorm rooms, when it broadcast on the AM band under the call letters WTSC, the campus radio station has been a catchall for the College’s creative and charismatic.
TCNJ to host more than 300 Trenton middle-school students at fifth annual Youth Development Institute
The fifth annual Youth Development Institute, sponsored by the Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement, will match groups of 6th-through-8th-graders from Hedgepeth/Williams Middle School with 150 student from TCNJ’s Freshman Seminar Program on campus today. The freshmen will lead workshops inspired by their classes.
Former TCNJ hoops star says “bonjour” to the world of pro basketball
Hillary Klimowicz ’09 is living her dream of playing professional basketball. She’s just doing it in a different location than she ever imagined.
NACUFS showcases renovated Eickhoff Dining Hall
The National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS), the trade association for food service professionals at more than 625 institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and abroad, is showcasing a virtual tour of the newly renovated Eickhoff Dining Hall on its website.
Municipalities achieve sustainability certification for green measures
Donna Drewes, co-director of the Institute for Sustainability Planning and Governance at the Municipal Land Use Center at The College of New Jersey, was quoted in an article in the Burlington County Times regarding two Burlington County towns that earned certification from Sustainable Jersey .
New Jersey colleges reach out to foreign students
Jon Stauff, head of the Center for Global Engagement at TCNJ, was quoted in an article in the Bergen Record about a New Jersey-based initiative to assist colleges in attracting international students.
Communications professor publishes new book
Gary C. Woodward, professor of Communication Studies at The College of New Jersey, has recently published a book, “The Perfect Response: Studies of the Rhetorical Personality,” through the publisher Lexington Books.