For over 30 years, indestructible cyborgs from the future have been waging war against humans—in a little franchise of movies you may have heard of: The Terminator. While the fifth installment of the action film is still a few months away from hitting the big screen, the conversations about the opportunities and ethical challenges posed…
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TCNJ pays you back, according to The Princeton Review
TCNJ’s efforts to make college more affordable are being recognized nationally in a new publication by The Princeton Review. Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Best Value Colleges and What It Takes to Get In–2015 Edition, names TCNJ as one of the country’s best colleges for students seeking great academics, outstanding career preparation, and…
How TCNJ made it into the 2015 Oscars. Nominally.
Rosa Zagari-Marinzoli, assistant dean for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, was driving to work one morning, listening to the radio, when the Oscar announcements began. A movie fan, she pulled into the TCNJ lot and waited to hear the 2015 Best Picture contenders. Soon came a familiar title: Whiplash. Remembering the inquiry she…
How e-mail created an icon at TCNJ
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TCNJ recognized as a top producer of Fulbrights
TCNJ was identified as a top producer of Fulbright scholars, according to data published in The Chronicle of Higher Education this week. This is TCNJ’s first appearance on the list, and the college sits as one of only three New Jersey institutions named (along with Princeton University and Rutgers University). The Fulbright U.S. Student Program…
ELE/ENV100: Where sustainable food is on the syllabus
Curly kale salads punctuated with shaved radish and roasted squash greeted members of the inaugural Environmental Sustainability in Education course and their professor, Lauren Madden, yesterday at Agricola, a restaurant on Princeton’s Witherspoon Street. The course, a requirement for TCNJ’s brand new minor in sustainability education, is largely made up of elementary education majors, but…
Second phase of Campus Town boasts more beds, a new entrance to TCNJ’s campus
While The College of New Jersey’s Campus Town won’t officially open its doors until August, strong student demand for housing has led TCNJ and the PRC Group to announce plans to expand the development, adding two residential buildings which will accommodate 166 additional students. This second phase of the project will also include a transformation…
How one TCNJ alum uses Minecraft in his classroom
Ramu Indrasimhan ‘14 had just finished teaching his 7th-grade class in Chennai, India, about the Roman Empire. He asked his students to submit final projects on ancient Rome, and one teen decided to build his own miniature Colosseum. When he had trouble finding the right materials, he came to Indrasimhan with an unusual request: Can…
Faculty and staff hit the theater for group viewing of Selma
“It is one of my proudest days at the college,” says Brenda Leake. Leake, an associate professor of elementary/early childhood education, and more than 150 of her faculty and staff colleagues celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday—and supported the college’s strategic initiative around diversity and inclusion—with a group trip to view the film Selma…
TCNJ receives Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
Community engaged learning is a hallmark of a TCNJ education, and the college has worked to infuse the curriculum with activities where students learn by serving and engaging with diverse communities on and off campus. These experiences allow TCNJ students to excel academically and to be engaged citizens both locally and globally. For these efforts,…