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TCNJ Bonner Scholars Kick Off 2019-2020 School Year

From August 20-23, TCNJ Bonner Scholars participated in the annual Fall Bonner Orientation. This year’s activities included welcoming our new first-year students, visiting many of our community partner sites and local businesses, learning in workshops hosted by several TCNJ faculty and staff members, and planning service projects for the upcoming year. Check out the photos… Continue Reading

Nordquist selected for Engaged Scholar Initiative

Michael Nordquist, Executive Director of The College of New Jersey’s Center for Commnuity Engaged Learning and Research, was selected to be a participant in the Eastern Region Campus Compact’s Engaged Scholars Initiative. The Engaged Scholars Initiative seeks to develop, support and connect leaders who can advance co-created knowledge, critically engaged pedagogies, institutional change, and collaborative… Continue Reading

TCNJ Bonner Scholars Travel to NOLA

On Friday, January 18, the first-year class of TCNJ Bonner Scholars left for New Orleans for a week of service and learning in the city. This is the 13th year TCNJ Bonner has conducted this service trip, and we are as enthusiastic and dedicated as the first time went support the New Orleans community.… Continue Reading

Sam Kanig: TCNJ Community Fellow in Residence 2018-2019

The College of New Jersey’s Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research is excited to introduce its inaugural Community Fellow in Residence, Sam Kanig. Sam has been a leader in the Latinx community in Trenton for more than a decade. He was the founding president of the Puerto Rican Civic Association, he was the founder… Continue Reading

TCNJ Earns Grant to Fight School Absenteeism

TCNJ received a $300,000 grant from the Princeton Area Community Foundation’s All Kids Thrive Program to continue the fight against chronic school absenteeism in the region over the next five years. According to data from 2014-15, 32 percent of Trenton Public School students were chronically absent, well above the state average of 10 percent. Chronically… Continue Reading

First-Year TCNJ Bonners Travel to D.C.

On November 4th, 2018, first-year TCNJ Bonner Scholars traveled to Washington, D.C. for a day of enrichment. After eating lunch at Busboys and Poets, a social justice, activism, and art themed restaurant, the group traveled to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. At the museum, students traveled through the four floors of expansive exhibits depicting… Continue Reading

CELR & Office of Graduates and Advancing Education host College Readiness Program

In June, the Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research (CELR), in partnership with the Office of Graduate and Advancing Education, hosted a one-week College Readiness Program for high school students. The College Readiness Program included three workshop series held over course of the week. Workshops included a session on career and college exploration, college… Continue Reading

TCNJ Summer Bonner Fellows Program

July 8-20, 2018 A collaboration between the CELR Center, the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and TCNJ’s Office of Summer and Winter Programs, the Summer Bonner Fellows Program provides a two-week college-simulation experience, combining academics with community engagement. This is the 8th year TCNJ and Bonner have facilitated this program. … Continue Reading

Bridge to Employment (BTE) Completes First Year

In 1992, Johnson & Johnson launched its Bridge to Employment (BTE) initiative to inspire young people to stay in school, excel academically, and elevate their career aspirations. BTE has two primary goals: 1) Increase the number of students who enroll in higher education, 2) Increase the number of students interested in pursuing careers… Continue Reading

CELR and Millhill Child & Family Development Collaborate on NGCL Program

“People are afraid to talk about mental health issues and suicide. They’re uncomfortable.” Nabia Evans, a Notre Dame High School junior, shares her feelings on the stigma of mental health at a recent meeting of Trenton’s Next Generation Community Leaders. “You don’t know what’s going on inside a person behind the smile.” A collaboration… Continue Reading