Rowan University President Ali Houshmand has witnessed too many Rowan students leaving school due to a financial emergency. Scores of students around the country are forced to interrupt their educations when a parent dies, suffers a prolonged illness or loses a job and money becomes scarce. What begins as a leave of absence often ends ...

The Board of Trustees at Montclair State University will grant an honorary degree to broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff at its January 2019 Graduate School Commencement ceremony. Woodruff is an anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour. She will address the graduating class and receive an honorary doctorate of letters degree on Jan. 19, at the ...

Mercer County Community College is partnering with Haldeman Auto Group on an internship through which qualified automotive students can participate at Haldeman’s Lexus, Ford and Subaru dealerships. Students are paid, receive tools, and earn scholarship funding. Haldeman Lexus Vice President Brian Bennett says the dealership is committed to education for its workforce and training students ...

Rider University will begin offering a Bachelor of Arts in Game and Interactive Media Design in fall 2019. This degree will give students a foundation in video game design, storytelling, development, songwriting, composition, animation and filmmaking. “We want students to be able to develop expertise for a variety of areas under the video game design ...

Robert Kelchen, a Seton Hall University assistant professor in the Department of Education Leadership, Management and Policy in the College of Education and Human Services, was chosen by publication Education Week, as No. 32 in its annual ranking of the top 200 American educational scholars for 2019. W. Steven Barnett, a professor of Education Economics ...

  Friends of BelovED Community Charter School 2 Inc., Urbahn Architects and Hollister Construction Services announced the structural frame of the new $12.5 million middle school in Jersey City is now complete. Upon completion, the 53,000-square-foot building will serve 1,080 students for grades 6-9. It is situated on a half-acre parcel of land located at ...

Hackettstown-based Centenary University is starting an academic program in sustainable practices, offering students the opportunity to minor, complete a concentration or earn a certificate in this field. The courses are offered through Centenary’s Department of Business. Sustainable practices involves economics, the environment, and social responsibility in relation to a company’s bottom line. Michael Russell, the ...

Presidents of three New Jersey universities expect the affordability of New Jersey colleges to be a major factor impacting students in 2019, along with an emphasis on science/technology/engineering/arts/mathematics education (STEAM) to prepare students for high-demand careers.

Berkeley College has named Marsha Pollard as provost, effective Dec. 17. Pollard has nearly two decades of experience in higher education at top-ranked national universities.

K.P. Subbalakshmi is the founding director of the Stevens Institute of Technology’s recently launched Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which was created to conduct research into areas that impact every day life, such as early warning detection for Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, skin cancer and irregular heartbeats, and improving infrastructure safety through AI-enhanced smart underwater robots.

Looking ahead at New Jersey’s potential legal cannabis market, a dozen faculty and staff at William Paterson University formed the Cannabis Institute to advise state, county, and municipal agencies on issues related to medical and recreational cannabis.