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TCNJ News Releases Archive 2017-2015

She’s got spirit, how ‘bout you?

After graduation, Hayley Graves ’15 hopes to land a design agency job that allows her to make use of her talents as an illustrator. And her abilities are considerable. The senior won first place in TCNJ’s Spirit Mark Competition, in which the college challenged art students to draw a cartoon version of Roscoe, the college’s…

Last call at The Rat: Iconic campus hotspot to close after 39 years

Cheers echoed throughout the Brower Student Center atrium during Alumni Reunion 2015 as Lions from years past raised their glasses and celebrated the end of an era. “To the Rat!” they clinked, recounting memories of long hours spent at the beloved campus watering hole that will soon close forever. “We had the best times here,”…

Where is the Class of 2015 heading?

We asked members of the Class of 2015 what is perhaps the single most terrifying question you can ask a graduating senior: “So, what are you doing after graduation?” Here’s what lies ahead for 59 of them:   Briana Saddler, criminology She’s already working as a data analyst in the Asset Forfeiture Division of the Drug…

Philosophy Professor Melinda A. Roberts has been appointed in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2015-16. She will work on a book, Modal Ethics and Moral Value, intended to explore how facts about one person in one seemingly irrelevant outcome can bear on and alter the moral characteristics of other outcomes.

Philosophy Professor Melinda A. Roberts has been appointed in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2015-16. She will work on a book, Modal Ethics and Moral Value, intended to explore how facts about one person in one seemingly irrelevant outcome can bear on and alter the moral characteristics of other outcomes.

New campaign launches to fund major TCNJ priorities

On Saturday, April 25, approximately 1,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends gathered on a sunny and crisp Quimby’s Prairie to be a part of college history. The moment came at 4 p.m., when TCNJ President R. Barbara Gitenstein took center stage for the big reveal—the special announcement that the college was undertaking a major initiative…

Students got facetime this spring with DC legislators and alumni

Despite a chilly, rainy forecast and a pre-sunrise departure, Poonam Kotak ’16 was one of several dozen students who climbed aboard a bus to the nation’s capitol this semester for TCNJ’s first-ever DC Networking Day. The purpose of the trip was to link students with successful alums who can explain how to search for that…

Cooperman College Scholars pledges support for nearly two dozen Essex County teens

After months of preparation, TCNJ will welcome its first group of Cooperman College Scholars to campus this summer. For nearly two dozen students, all rising high school seniors from Essex County, New Jersey, it will be a first taste of the TCNJ experience—but thanks to the new Cooperman program, surely not the last. Launched this…

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