The agreement allows for seamless transfers into bachelor degree programs and also serves to facilitate recruitment of students into programs offered by both schools.
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Education
Wiley signs agreement to purchase assets of Knewton
The acquisition of Knewton's open-resource Alta platform will help to accelerate the Hoboken-based education publisher's position in the growing, affordable courseware market.
Read More »Foster inaugurated as The College of New Jersey’s 16th president
Kathryn Foster was installed on May 3 in a ceremony in the Student Recreation Center.
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New Jersey school buses among EPA awards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded more than $9.3 million to replace 473 older diesel school buses. The funds are going to 145 school bus fleets in 43 states or territories, each of which will receive rebates through EPA’s Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) funding. The new buses will reduce pollutants that are ...
Read More »NJIT expands to Jersey City
The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Ying Wu College of Computing will offer part-time and full-time graduate-level programs in data science at a location just steps from the Exchange Place PATH station in the waterfront district of Jersey City. The new location will expand NJIT’s $2.8 billion annual impact on the state’s economy by serving ...
Read More »Gov. Murphy signs bills to recruit women and minorities, require colleges to develop open textbook plan
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed Senate Bill 368 into law on Thursday, authorizing political subdivisions to set aside 0.5 percent of public works funds to recruit and train women and minorities and promote local hiring. Murphy speaks about making New Jersey a fairer economy with a focus on innovation and providing equal opportunity. The ...
Read More »Tuition-Free community college now includes students statewide in spring 2019
New Jersey’s program to make community college tuition-free for certain students, which began with a pilot at 13 county colleges, is being expanded to cover eligible students at all 19 county colleges in the current spring semester. “With this expansion, students in need at all 19 of our community colleges will have access to an ...
Read More »Stanley Bergen Jr., founding president of UMDNJ dies at 89
Bergen was the first senior vice president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. when he was selected by the state of New Jersey to direct the creation of the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Before Bergen established UMDNJ, the state had no medical school and had a shortage of physicians and dentists.
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Montclair State University’s graduate school launches new programs
Students will receive interdisciplinary training in computer science and linguistics needed to help machines process human language—and help linguists understand language through computer models.
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Felician University celebrates 150th anniversary of iconic castle
The Rutherford-based school is honoring the occasion by taking additional steps to protect the integrity of the castle's structure with its hiring of Heritage Consulting Group.
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NJMEP receives funding from Walmart to train students
NJMEP will use the funding to train 20 students and one teacher in the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council Certified Logistics Associate Program at the Donald M. Payne School of Technology in Newark.
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Monmouth University names planetary scientist 2019 commencement speaker
Carolyn Porco, the imaging science team leader on the international Cassini mission to Saturn, which successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn from 2004 to 2017, will deliver the address at the school's undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 15.
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