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TCNJ News Releases Archive 2014-2010

Bonner Center and CPOE launch innovative prison mentoring project

Men with criminal records who have turned their lives around and have made solid contributions to the local community are returning to prison to mentor younger inmates as part of an innovative grant project that is being led by the Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement and the Center for Prison Outreach and Education (CPOE).

A family of educators

Bob (’69) and Annette (nee Zamborsky, ’70) Fitzsimmons found more than love at the College—they also developed a lifelong passion for education. In June 2011, the two alums and their daughter, Mara Lamond ’97, opened the Ewing Community Preschool on Pennington Road, across from TCNJ’s main entrance.

Globetrotting alum contributes to a doggone good cause

If you’re in Baltimore any time soon, don’t be surprised to see Harlem Globetrotter and Class of 2005 alumnus Derick “Dizzy” Grant and his dog, Saber, looking down on you from a billboard, or staring back at you from the side of a bus shelter.

TCNJ Freshman is already a ‘Global Citizen’

Prior to arriving on campus this fall, Nic Freschi participated in a bridge-year program, during which time he lived in a remote mountain region of Ecuador and taught English.

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