TCNJ News Releases
TCNJ Board announces Michael Bernstein and Patricia Harp Scholarship Fund
On Friday, September 27, The College of New Jersey’s Board of Trustees presented President Michael Bernstein with a gift to commemorate his inauguration as the college’s 17th president. In Bernstein’s honor, the members of the board endowed the Michael Bernstein and Patricia Harp Scholarship Fund, which will support talented students with financial need who transfer into…
Michael A. Bernstein inaugurated as 17th president of The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey formally installed Michael A. Bernstein as its 17th president in a ceremony this afternoon in Kendall Hall. “On behalf of the trustees, I welcome you as the 17th president of The College of New Jersey,” said Rebecca Ostrov ’02, chair of TCNJ’s Board of Trustees. “I assure you of our…
TCNJ earns NSF Noyce Grant to strengthen climate change education efforts in New Jersey
The College of New Jersey continues to play a key role in keeping New Jersey at the forefront of climate change education for elementary school students. Most recently, the college was awarded a $2,955,563 grant from The National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The funds will be used over the next six years to…
TCNJ named top-ranked college in region by U.S. News
U.S. News & World Report released its 2025 Best Colleges rankings today and The College of New Jersey was ranked as the top institution in the “Best Regional Universities—North” category. TCNJ has held the top spot in its region among public colleges every year since 1991, but this year, it vaulted to the top overall…
TCNJ awarded NIH grant to launch new bridge program for biomedical professions
The College of New Jersey has been awarded a $1,339,503 grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch the New Jersey Biomed-Bridge Scholars Program. Over the next five years, this innovative initiative will provide resources and pathways for groups of students from Brookdale Community College and Mercer County Community College to transfer into TCNJ’s…
Summer internship fuels a graduating senior’s mission to diversify speech therapy
TCNJ senior Emma Baby played with emotions and language this summer as a research assistant at New York University’s LEARN — Language Experience and Acquisition Research at NYU — Lab. Joining a team of interns from colleges and universities around the country, Baby, a speech pathology and audiology major, received hands-on research experience coding and analyzing video data of…
TCNJ scores high marks in Wall Street Journal college rankings
The Wall Street Journal recently released its 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. list and TCNJ ranked among the top 20 percent of all institutions in the country. TCNJ also ranked as the top public college in New Jersey and was second only to Princeton for all institutions in the state. The WSJ rankings assess 500 colleges…
A close watch: Students and faculty watch presidential debate together, and with understanding
Students gathered in Kendall Hall’s TV Studio on Tuesday, September 10, to watch the first (and possibly only) debate between 2024 presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But in an election cycle that has been as unusual as it has been divisive and polarized, the college offered students a crash course in civility before…
TCNJ pays tribute to former grad student whose 1977 death remains an “unsolved mystery”
A bouquet of flowers in a white Ball mason jar appeared on the steps of Kendall Hall in early September with a note taped to the glass that read: For Sigrid Stevenson The stage is forever your world Rest in Peace. 01/24/1952 – 09/04/1977 Stevenson, a graduate music and education major from California, had…