Uncategorized

Day of Service celebrates Trenton and honors life and legacy of Pat Donohue

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Day of Service on October 17th, 2015. More than 275 TCNJ community members participated in service at 12 sites in the Trenton region. You can find pictures and accounts of the day here: #TCNJServes: facebook, Twitter, instagram The Signal NJ.com For more information about Pat Donohue’s life and legacy,… Continue Reading

TCNJ Team Attends Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship Conference

An interdisciplinary team of professors and administrators attended the Ashoka U Exchange Conference in Washington December this past week, where over 700 individuals from dozens of countries examined how higher education can prepare students to be social innovators and entrepreneurs. The TCNJ team included Professors Mort Winston (Philosophy), Marla Jaksch (WGS), Miriam Shakow (Sociology), and… Continue Reading

Bonner Scholars in New Orleans

On the heels of TCNJ’s acknowledgment as a Community Engagement Classification institution from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 31 TCNJ Bonner Scholars left before dawn last Friday for a seven-day service trip to New Orleans. While there, they are working with the New Orleans-based Saint Bernard Project to rehabilitate and rebuild homes… Continue Reading

TCNJ Receives Prestigious Carnegie Classification-In Top 8% Nationally

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,… Continue Reading

Community Engaged Scholarship Roundtable Draws a Crowd

35 professors, administrators and staff participated in a roundtable discussion and workshop on “community engaged scholarship” on November 19th, drawing 24 academics from seventeen different disciplines across the College of New Jersey Campus. The breadth of the academic turnout was described as “unprecedented” by the lead facilitator and co-organizer of the event. The event was… Continue Reading

“No Vacancy” Exhibit Opening Friday at TrentonWorks Art Gallery

A picture can speak a thousand words, and through photojournalism, it can retell entire stories that may have otherwise been lost over time. On Friday, August 1st, The College of New Jersey’s TrentonWorks Art Gallery will present the opening of “No Vacancy,” an exhibition that will highlight the role that photojournalism has played in informing and reminding society of historical events in Trenton and around the world. Continue Reading

When Kyle was 8, he knew he wanted to be a Trenton drug dealer – Program offers a new beginning

When Kyle was 8, he knew he wanted to be a Trenton drug dealer – Program offers a new beginning TRENTON – Like many little boys growing up in his north Trenton neighborhood in the late 1980s, 8-year-old Kyle wanted to be a drug dealer when he grew up. Dealers had money. Dealers had nice… Continue Reading

Wells Fargo Bonner Education Brigade Wraps Up Another Successful Year

The College of New Jersey has officially wrapped up another successful year of Community Engaged Learning and working with the greater Trenton community on a variety of issues, including youth development and education. This past year year, TCNJ received a $25,000 grant from the Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation in support of the Bonner Community Scholars Program. Continue Reading

AmeriCorps*VISTA Positions Available

The following AmeriCorps*VISTA positions through the Bonner VISTA Fellows program. Applications are being accepted through June 24, 2014. To apply, please click the links below. The New Jersey Bonner VISTA Fellow Program is a post-college national volunteer service program developed in partnership of The Center for Community Engaged Learning & Research at The College of… Continue Reading