The College of New Jersey’s School of Business jumped 28 places to #35 in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2016 ranking of the top 100 undergraduate business programs in the nation. TCNJ has the number one undergraduate B-school in New Jersey, according to the publication’s survey of Best Undergraduate Business Schools. The ranking is based on a number of…
Academics & Research
A School of Nursing team in Haiti helped pull a toddler back from sure death
Severely malnourished, flaccid, and crying weakly, the 15-month-old was barely responsive when his mother carried him into the Port-au-Prince clinic’s triage section where Kelly Williamson met them. Williamson ’16 immediately sensed the urgency of the child’s condition, and ushered the boy and his mother to Sharon Byrne for further evaluation. “As soon as they walked…
How being a twin helped launch Andrew Goldfarb into grad school at Harvard
When Andrew Goldfarb was 14, he and his brother Zach wondered whether they were, in fact, identical twins. As newborns, the boys looked alike, and there seemed to be no need to perform genetic testing to determine whether they were among the one-third of twins who have identical DNA. “When I look at our infant…
Big Plans, Big Bucks
The stage is set for the Fifth Annual Mayo Business Plan Competition
Journalism and Professional Writing Program approved as freestanding major
TCNJ and the state of New Jersey have approved the Journalism and Professional Writing Program (JPW) as a freestanding major. Rather than a major track within the English Department in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the new JPW major will move into the School of the Arts and Communication for the 2016–17 academic…
Kamber named inaugural FSP Instructor of the Year
On March 9, Richard Kamber, professor of philosophy, was named the inaugural recipient of the Robert Anderson First Seminar Instructor of the Year award. Named for Robert Anderson, former assistant provost of liberal learning who worked to shape the college’s general education program since 1989, the award is dedicated to the spirit of liberal learning…
Are we done collecting?
Essay by Gary Woodward, professor of communication studies
Jeff Osborn receives 2016 CUR Fellows Award for excellence in undergrad research
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) announced today that Jeff Osborn, dean of TCNJ’s School of Science, is one of two recipients of the 2016 CUR Fellows Award. The CUR Fellows Award recognizes individuals who excel in teaching, scholarship, and mentoring of undergraduate students, and who provide leadership in the area of undergraduate research. The…