On Saturday, September 11, The College of New Jersey will commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by honoring military and first responders during a special halftime presentation at TCNJ football’s home opener against SUNY Cortland. Kickoff is at noon in Lions Stadium. Gabrielle Bobo ’22, a health and exercise science major and member of ROTC,…
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I Am TCNJ docustory project receives double Emmy nods
I Am TCNJ: A Docu-Story Project has been nominated in two categories in the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy Awards. The segment “Now is the Time” is nominated in the Interactive Media category, and “To My Professors” is nominated in the Education/Schools – Short Form Content (single story) category. Debuting in spring 2021, the docu-story project…
TCNJ partners with Trenton Board of Education for Early College High School Program
On Thursday, June 17, The College of New Jersey and the Trenton Board of Education formally announced a partnership to allow Trenton students to earn dual enrollment college credits while in high school under the national Early College High School Program. The announcement event, which was attended by TCNJ President Kathryn A. Foster, Trenton Mayor…
Marla Jaksch named third recipient of the Barbara Meyers Pelson ’59 Chair in Faculty-Student Engagement
Marla Jaksch has been at the forefront of advancing faculty-student research collaboration at TCNJ for 11 years. Now, as the third recipient of the Barbara Meyers Pelson ’59 Chair in Faculty-Student Engagement, she’s aiming to enhance inclusion, diversity, community, and belonging at TCNJ. Jaksch’s proposed project invites the TCNJ community to consider how the campus…
TCNJ partners with NJPRF and Overdeck Family Foundation to launch Summer Tutoring Corps Program to tackle COVID-related learning loss.
To accelerate student learning and address COVID-related learning loss, TCNJ’s School of Education announced today it will partner with the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, in conjunction with Overdeck Family Foundation, to launch the NJ Summer Tutoring Corps Program in late June. The program will provide tutoring this summer for thousands of K–5 students who have experienced pandemic-related learning loss. TCNJ designed the NJ Summer Tutoring Corps Program based on best practices from other statewide initiatives and research that…
How this winning team is taking plastic cups out of the landfill and into the compost pile.
The red plastic cup has become synonymous with good times, popping up at picnics, parties, and tailgates all over the country. But single-use plastics are coming under scrutiny for their negative impact on the environment. Team Zero, composed of four TCNJ seniors, is on a mission to bring to market a comparable, but compostable version,…
TCNJ Educational Psychologist Ruth Palmer named president-elect of the Council on Undergraduate Research
Ruth Palmer, associate professor emerita in TCNJ’s School of Education has been named president-elect of the Council on Undergraduate Research. She will take office as president-elect in summer 2021 and become president of the organization in summer 2022. “To serve as CUR president-elect 2021 is an honor which I receive respectfully,” Palmer said. “What I…
TCNJ adds anthropology major for fall 2021
Starting in fall 2021, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is welcoming a new major into its lineup, general anthropology. This new major, which has been in the works for more than 10 years, explores the past and present of human cultures around the world through disciplines such as archeology, language study, and biology. …
TCNJ wins funding for sustainability initiative
TCNJ is one of 10 colleges/universities recently awarded a pro bono consulting opportunity that will help advance sustainability and climate projects on campus. Second Nature, a Boston-based NGO whose mission it is to accelerate climate action in, and through, higher education, issued this opportunity that is being provided and sponsored by Brailsford & Dunlavey and…