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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…

AI expert Alondra Nelson, a person we need to hear from now, to speak at TCNJ on Oct. 15

Named by Time as one of the most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence, Alondra Nelson will visit The College of New Jersey on Tuesday, October 15, as the next speaker in the Foster Distinguished Visitor series. Nelson will speak at 4 p.m. in the Mayo Concert Hall in the Music Building, participating…

TCNJ earns bronze seal from ALL IN for robust voter engagement efforts

The College of New Jersey has been awarded a bronze seal from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for nonpartisan engagement efforts that fostered high levels of student voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections. The TCNJ Votes! program is the college’s initiative to increase student voter registration and turnout in each election. The effort aims…

TCNJ hosts &Girls conference and welcomes elected officials to campus

On Saturday, September 7, The College of New Jersey hosted Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman’s &Girls Conference, a day-long seminar to engage, uplift, and empower Black girls in middle and high school.  The event featured five breakout sessions and addresses by prominent Black women leaders, including New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02),…

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