With four days in the past week seeing greater than 4,000 new cases of COVID-19 in New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and neighboring heads of states are urging universities to test students before sending them home for the holiday.

The Martin Tuchman School of Management will offer a 120-credit program in financial technology inspired by Wall Street's need to hire a new generation of workers "skilled in the latest trends of applying computing to commerce."

The education is bicoastal, as students work with industry professionals in a New York experience audition course as well as spend a semester living and interning in Los Angeles. Both experiences culminate in a showcase for agents and casting directors in the acting hubs.

This includes all campuses in South Orange, Newark and Nutley/Clifton. The university’s original plan was for students to switch from a hybrid learning plan to a virtual learning plan after Thanksgiving, but the upticks in number of new positive COVID-19 cases in the state and on campus have influenced the school’s decision.

Two New Jersey colleges rank high among PayScale's College Salary Report which lists colleges and universities by the median salaries of their alumni.

Dorothy Leung Blakeslee is also Bergen Community College's current longest-tenured trustee, having joined the board in 2003.

The initiative, led by the chair of the school's board of trustees, aims to provide more internship and employment opportunities for students, and to develop events and programming.

"We deliberately waited until early November to make a final decision on our ... plans to ensure that we had a clear understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on our campus community, as well as the most current recommendations from our state and local public health officials," university President Patrick Leahy said in a statement, as new daily cases of the virus reach numbers in New Jersey not seen since May.

If selected, Brian Bridges would head an agency that oversees the state’s 81 colleges and universities, replacing Zakiya Smith Ellis, who stepped down from the post to join the governor’s office at the start of July.

“What a disconcerting time we are in that I write of rules and constraints rather than freedoms and wants,” Foster said. “I join you in yearning for a time before long when we can gather again as a community beyond Zoom. The coming three months will no doubt bring more issues and ideas to which we will respond.”

The partnership will rely on cooperation from and with anchor institutions like AtlantiCare, Exelon, the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, Ørsted, South Jersey Industries and Stockton University.

The 31,500-square-foot facility will offer education and training in a number of degree and certificate programs at the County College of Morris, and provide the industry with opportunities to update the skills of current employees.