Five TCNJ students shared stories about their experiences as Asian Americans during a special TED Talk-inspired event on April 22. TCNJ’s Pan-Asian Alliance held the campuswide event in response to the ongoing COVID-19 hate crimes and discrimination toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Addy Wong ’21, Brandon Hoang ’22, Alekhya Madiraju ’22, Sayon Park ’22,…
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David McMillan ’21 heads to Scotland on a prestigious scholarship
Unlike the long-storied mysterious inhabitant of Loch Ness, the opportunity in front of David McMillan ’21 is no hoax. He has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to attend graduate school at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where he will pursue a master’s degree in public policy. The senior will attend the program as a…
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 School of Business to host international MLM conference
TCNJ’s School of Business will host an international conference on multi-level marketing, bringing together a group of the most influential experts in the industry. The conference will take place virtually from April 30 through May 1. The event will offer expertise from regulators, prosecutors, former MLM distributors, social media consumer advocates, researchers, educators, and journalists…
TCNJ alums hit the red carpet at 2021 Academy Awards
As Hollywood prepares for its biggest night of the year, twin brothers Keith ’07 and Kenny Lucas ’07 are poised to represent TCNJ in a big way with their Best Screenplay nomination for Judas and the Black Messiah. The brothers’ idea for Judas — which honors the life of Fred Hampton, the chairman of the…
TCNJ partners with Penn Medicine Princeton Health for on-campus vaccine event
A partnership between The College of New Jersey and Penn Medicine Princeton Health is adding to the nearly 6.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered so far in the state of New Jersey. On Friday, April 16, Penn Medicine Princeton Health set up shop in the Brower Student Center and delivered 264 doses of the…
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…