How many pushups does it take to become a police officer? That’s a harder question than it seems, as some TCNJ criminology students discovered when they started asking last spring, and the answers they found were newsworthy enough to land on the front page of USA Today. They learned there’s no one answer, and it…
Academics & Research
English prof Jess Row riffs on the modern troubles of an old truism and his new book on race, fiction, and the American imagination.
In 2012, writer and producer Lena Dunham faced harsh criticism for the all-white cast of HBO’s hit series, Girls. When asked about her decision in an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, Dunham said it was an accident; she wrote about people she knew, and only later realized it was a show about four white women.…
5 lessons to learn from writer and activist Darnell Moore
Author and activist Darnell Moore visited TCNJ for Community Learning Day on September 4 to discuss his memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. The book was chosen as the summer reading for TCNJ’s class of 2023 and reflects the college’s intellectual theme for the academic year: “#ClimateMatters:…
TCNJ Engineering’s diversity efforts recognized with national award
The College of New Jersey’s School of Engineering has been named one of the inaugural recipients of an award from the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE) Diversity Recognition Program. The honor is given to colleges and universities for establishing an institutional infrastructure to improve diversity and inclusion in engineering education. It is the first…
TCNJ and Sussex County Community College enter articulation agreement
TCNJ and Sussex County Community College have entered into an articulation agreement that will enable honors program students with an associate’s degree from Sussex to complete a BA or BS degree at TCNJ. The agreement was formally signed at an event on TCNJ’s campus on Wednesday, September 4. “We understand that for many reasons, including…
Bio students bet their tracking of an endangered snake in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens will aid in conservation
There’s the heat, swampy bogs, and bites from mosquitos, chiggers, and ticks. And snakes. Lots of snakes. All the elements for a great summer, right? The answer is a resounding yes for two biology majors tracking corn snakes in the middle of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. “I’m usually covered in bug bites and scratches,” says…