TCNJ Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jacqueline Taylor announced today the appointment of Suzanne McCotter, PhD, to the position of dean of the School of Education, effective August 1, 2017. Dr. McCotter comes to TCNJ from Montclair State University, where she currently serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the College of…
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Senior Chris Dinon awarded Fulbright to Spain
Christopher Dinon ’17 has been selected as a 2017–18 Fulbright Scholar with an English Teaching Assistantship award to Spain. Starting in September, he’ll spend an academic year in Madrid teaching English to high school students. He also plans to aid with Spanish classes for immigrants in Spain. Dinon, a double major in French and Spanish with…
Interactive multimedia grads question, advance technology at senior showcase
Forty students presented apps, films, sculpture, cos-play, and other forms of media at the 2017 IMM Senior Showcase, a one-night opportunity for the campus to see the creative work of graduating interactive multimedia majors. For Chris Lundy, the night was the culmination of an idea he had early on in his college career. “It was…
Meet the winners of the 2017 Mayo Business Plan Competition
If Tyler Gambardella hadn’t been so strapped for time a year ago, he wouldn’t be a CEO today. Attempting to balance all aspects of his busy college life—classes and homework, a co-op at Johnson & Johnson, serving on the exec board of his fraternity—left little room in his schedule for things like laundry and errands.…
Mawhinney’s new book examines teacher education at minority-serving institutions
As an African-American woman growing up in a rural area that was predominantly white, Lynnette Mawhinney knew from a young age she wanted to pursue a career in education. “I knew I wanted to teach students who needed extra support,” she says, “but who also needed someone like me, a teacher of color.” Her new…
TCNJ senior using mindfulness in the classroom
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Mayo Business Plan Competition final showdown, April 5
On April 5, three teams of TCNJ student entrepreneurs will square off in the finals of the Mayo Business Plan Competition. Their goal? To convince a panel of judges that their idea is the Next Big Thing. And the stakes are high, with a prize pot of $50,000 to be divvied up among the teams.…
STEM Building construction on track
The construction of TCNJ’s STEM building is on track for completion this summer with a ribbon-cutting ceremony being planned for the fall. The 89,000-square-foot project, which uses funds from the Building Our Future Bond and the Higher Education Technology Infrastructure Bond, has been designed from the ground up to facilitate a fresh, multifaceted approach to…
The lemurs are coming: Phi Beta Kappa hosts Dr. Patricia Wright on March 23
On Thursday, March 23 The College of New Jersey, in conjunction with the Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar Program, will host a lecture by Dr. Patricia Wright entitled, “Back from the Brink of Extinction: Saving Lemurs in Madagascar,” along with a one-time screening of Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, a Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Entertainment presentation, which…
2017-18 Gitenstein-Hart winner strives to break boundaries in art history
Even if you’ve never taken an art history class, you’ve probably heard the words that describe its story: ancient, medieval, renaissance, baroque, modernism. Yet the story of Deborah Hutton’s area of expertise—Asian and Islamic art—is told from the margins, if it at all. “Think of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” says Hutton, professor of art…