Keeping up with the latest fashion trends can be challenging at best, and wasteful — even dangerous — at worst. In Kathleen Webber’s First Year Seminar class, “The True Cost of Fashion,” students learned what happens to our clothes when we’re done wearing them: 84 percent of it ends up in landfills, where microplastics and…
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TCNJ boasts highest graduation rate in NJ for community college transfer students
The College of New Jersey, which already boasts the eighth highest four-year graduation rate in the nation and highest in NJ among public colleges and universities, has extended that distinction to include transfers students. The college was recently ranked the top institution in New Jersey — and now among the best in the nation —…
TCNJ School of Business to launch two new hybrid graduate programs
The College of New Jersey’s School of Business is launching two new, hybrid online graduate programs: Master of Science in Accounting and Business Analytics and Master of Science in Management and Organizations. Applications are now being accepted for classes that will begin in fall 2024. “TCNJ has an outstanding reputation for delivering a rigorous education,”…
TCNJ nursing students achieve perfect pass rate on NCLEX exam
Nursing students at The College of New Jersey continue to pass the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s NCLEX exam at a rate that far surpasses most institutions. In fact, the most recent cohort of 44 students, which includes those who have taken the exam as of October 1, achieved a perfect pass rate…
ResEd student staffers channel their inner creativity to educate residents on culturally-sensitive conflict resolution
The Division of Inclusive Excellence challenged TCNJ’s Community Advisors to a bulletin board contest in the residence halls. The goal was for CAs to design displays to help educate their residents about important topics such as implicit bias, microaggressions, intent, and impact. In addition to adding color and energy to the residence halls, the bulletin…
Everyday items unearthed by hands-on archaeological field work yield published academic research — and a glimpse into the past.
Everyday objects can open windows to the past; so it was with a hoop skirt found underneath the attic floorboards of the Colonial-era William Green farmhouse on TCNJ’s campus. The cage crinoline — along with other items including the barrel-band of a rifle, a shoe, and some ceramics — was discovered in an archaeological field…
How this TCNJ senior’s recent discovery is making the entomological history books
Sarah Knapik spent a lot of time scouting around the storm drain at Lake Ceva this fall as she worked to build the bug collection needed for her entomology class. It paid off. She found a Lepidotarphius perornatella — a colorful species of moth never before recorded in New Jersey. Native to East Asia, the…
TCNJ students deliver Thanksgiving messages of encouragement to Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health patients
The College of New Jersey’s campus community has deepened its impact to the broader recovery community by partnering with Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health to create and send patients cards bearing messages of gratitude and encouragement for Thanksgiving. The cards, which were created by students during an event at the Brower Student Center on…