EWING, NJ … A team of students from The College of New Jersey, working closely with local community service organizations, has created an issue-focused newspaper that closely examines the circumstances around homelessness, while giving voice to the diverse population of residents in Mercer County shelters and on the streets. Called “The Wall,” the eight-page publication…
TCNJ News Releases Archive 2014-2010
Civil War historian Daniel Crofts on the NY Times Opinionator blog: A Baptism of Blood?
Daniel Crofts, a professor of American history, writes for the New York Times Opinionator blog, “Disunion,” about charged speeches by statesmen Daniel Webster and William Henry Seward, delivered 11 years apart, in which both men urged the country to accept political compromise in order to avoid a calamitous division.
“Restoring Freedoms” conference at TCNJ will honor MLK
The College of New Jersey will present “Restoring Freedoms,” a conference to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., from noon to 5 p.m. on Monday, The Times of Trenton reported. The event will be held in the Kendall Main Stage Theater. The attendance fee is $35.
TCNJ’s Sarah Kern in The Times of Trenton: Preschool attendance affects long-term achievement
Sarah Kern, chair of TCNJ’s Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, spoke with The Times of Trenton about the impact that attendance of quality preschool programs has on graduation rates and post-graduation earnings.
TCNJ’s Avery Faigenbaum in the L.A. Times: Kids can lift weights
Avery Faigenbaum, a professor of exercise science at The College of New Jersey, was quoted extensively in an article in the Los Angeles Times on the benefits of weight training for children. “We’ve done a 180-degree turn on this myth. We now actually encourage children to engage in strength training to increase bone, tendon and ligament strength, all of which serve to improve sports performance and reduce risk of injury,” he told the paper.
TCNJ Bonner Blogs from New Orleans
A group of 30 Bonner Center employees and Bonner Community Scholars are spending a week working in New Orleans with the United Saints Recovery Project, a volunteer organization that assists the elderly, disabled, and otherwise disadvantaged in rehabilitating and rebuilding their homes. They are recording their experiences on a blog that will feature the impressions, as well as accounts of challenges and accomplishments, of both the staff and students taking part in the Center’s fifth annual post-Katrina service mission. Also, in a special series, The Times of Trenton follows a team of TCNJ’s Bonner Scholars as they rebuild still-devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina laid them waste.
Editorial lauds TCNJ’s push for excellence despite declining state input and resources
An editorial in the Gloucester County Times urging greater structure in the management and financing of New Jersey’s public colleges and universities nonetheless cites The College of New Jersey’s successful drive for excellence in the absence of substantial controls.
TCNJ’s Benjamin Rifkin in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Course specific assessments must look to broader academic outcomes
In a letter to the editor published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Benjamin Rifkin, dean of the School of Culture and Society, posits that course specific assessments fail to provide a “macroperspective of the college education in which courses are constituents of a larger curriculum that builds toward a summative capstone experience.” He adds, “If we limit our view only to what transpires in an isolated course, we will be less likely to succeed in ways that should be our most important measure: the preparation of our students for life-long learning in the rapidly changing and globally interconnected world of the 21st century.”
Bonner Scholars and staff return to New Orleans on fifth annual home-building journey
Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, there is still plenty of rebuilding to be done. Students and staff from The College of New Jersey’s Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement, who are headed to the city this week for the fifth year in a row, will be plunging into reconstruction efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward and other neighborhoods.
Princeton, TCNJ top Kiplinger’s value list
The College of New Jersey and Princeton University score high marks for giving students the most for their money, according to the 2010-11 Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.