The Compact Guide to Our Campus “ We’Re So Glad You’Re Here.” We Look Forward to Sharing Our Campus with You
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Make yourself at home! The compact guide to our campus “ We’re so glad you’re here.” We look forward to sharing our campus with you. Grecia Montero, Executive Director of Admissions 2 Let’s get started! To help you get to know us, we’ve mapped out 16 hot spots on campus. Have fun exploring the places where we love to live and learn. Before you begin your tour, there are a few things we’d like to point out about The College of New Jersey. 1. Academic excellence Our campus brings together the sharpest, most talented students with the highest-caliber faculty — in spaces designed to spark meaningful collaboration. 2. Goodness in people Personal connections and shared experiences are the driving forces of our distinctive culture. You are welcome here and will feel at home in our community, which will support you throughout your college experience. 3. Financial savvy TCNJ has the fifth-highest four-year graduation rate in the nation among public colleges and universities. Students who finish in four years will pay less, borrow less, and get started in their careers more quickly. It all adds up. 3 1 School of Nursing, Health, and Exercise Science 4 Where we thrive First things first: Start your tour atTrenton Hall, home to the Departments of Nursing and Public Health. Nursing students get their steps in when they cross campus to Forcina Hall’s Patient Care Lab. Packer Hall works out well as the home for the Department of Health and Exercise Science. Green Playing Fields Maintenance Our leading-edge Human PerformancePower House Lab serves as a Lake Sylva classroom and research space for health Spiritual and exercise scienceCenter majors.Deck erStudents hit the ground running in a variety of Norsworthy fields, including sports medicine and strength and conditioning. Cromwell Centennial Brewster Allen New Townhouses East Ely Residence Travers In 2016, the school opened Forcina Tennis a $1.2 million state-of-the- Complex Townhouses West art Clinical Simulation Wolfe Lab, giving nursing students hands-on experience in a Townhouses South supervised setting. A second Green Packer Recreation lab facility is availableLake Ceva Hall Center George in Trenton Hall. Ackerman Park Green Farm Brower House Student Center Lions Stadium Track/Field 1 Complex Trenton Hall (Reception Center) June Soccer Complex Walker Field Our public health major Metzger Drive explores epidemics and the Main Fitness Entranenvironmentalce causes of disease Center Bookstore In 2019, 100 percent ofHausdoerf TCNJ nursingfer Phelp s while quantifying theLo impactrem ipsum majors passed the NCLEX nursing Administrative of disease. licensing exam, well above the Services Campus Town national average of 87 percent. Route 31 - Pennington Road The pulse Majors • Students from local schools come to TCNJ’s Human Health and exercise science Performance Lab to practice good exercise habits while Nursing TCNJ students analyze how they respond to integrative Public health neuromuscular training. • The school’s Master of Public Health is available as a “4 + 1” option, allowing undergrads in relevant disciplines to earn an advanced degree with just one additional year of study. • As one of eight Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Institute (QSEN) Regional Centers in the nation, TCNJ is playing a leadership role in transforming basic education for nurses to include knowledge, skills, and attitudes that emphasize quality and safety in patient care. Learn more: nursinghes.tcnj.edu 5 2 School of the Arts and Communication 6 Green Playing Fields Maintenance Power House Where we thriveLake Sylva Spiritual Stop two: Creative juices flow in theArt and InteractiveCenter Deck er Multimedia Building, which houses anNor artsworth gallery,y photo lab, recording studio, sculpture room, and Mac labs with Adobe Cromwell Creative Cloud. The MusicCentennial Building Brhitsewst erall the right notes with the Mayo Concert Hall, ensembleAllen suites, andNe wprivate Townhouses East Ely Residence practice rooms.Education Students go live in Kendall Hall, equipped with a TV studio and radio station. Its Mainstage Theater is the boss Travers for campusForcina concerts — just Gitaskenst Springsteenein himself, who played Library Tennis there in 1973.Roscoe L. West Eickhoff Complex Townhouses West Wolfe Public Art The sculptures in this area represent pixels Townhouses South and are a nod to the digital imaging that Green students study here. Recreation Lake Ceva Hall Center George Ackerman Park Green Farm Brower House Kendall Hall features Student Center Lions Stadium the Don Evans Black Kendall Box Theater, a 100-seat setting for the fall musical. It’s also home base for communication studies Track/Field , especially those 2 Art & TCNJ’s popular Maker Complex majors Music who produce student-run Interactive Space offers 3D printing, Multimedia LionsTV or host radio laser cutting, and CNC station WTSR from matching. A burst of the basement. Trenton Hall unconventional light (Reception Center) fixtures recently came June into being, and the Maker Soccer Complex Walker Space director hopes to Field build a prosthetic leg for Most students must audition to be accepted to Mehistz germother’s Drive three-legged TCNJ’s music major. Once here, you’ll learn from lab mix. 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Visual arts Fine arts Graphic design Learn more: Photography and video Undeclared–School of the Arts artscomm.tcnj.edu and Communication 7 3 School of Humanities and Social Sciences 8 Green Playing Fields Maintenance Power House Lake Sylva Spiritual Where we thrive Center Decker Next up, the Social Sciences Building housesNor thesworth lion’sy share of our “-ology” majors including criminology, psychology, and sociology, as well as African American studies, history, Cromwell international studies, andC entpoliticalennial science.Br ewstNearbyer is Bliss Allen New Townhouses East Hall, where English; philosophy; women’s,Ely gender, andRe sexualitysidence studies; and Eworldducation languages and linguistics live. Travers Forcina Sunshine and foliage Gitenstein Library Tennis Roscoeprovide L. W a estZen study space Eickhoff Complex Townhouses West in the Social Sciences Wolfe Building Atrium. It’s also a favorite spot for presentations, group gatherings, and receptions. Townhouses South Green In TCNJ’s Cognitive Recreation Lake Ceva Hall Development Lab, Center undergraduate research George is at work as students and Ackerman faculty welcome infants Park Green Farm Brower as young as 10 months to gain insights on what House Social 3 Student Center Lions Stadium Sciences babies learn and how they learn it. Track/Field Students enjoy a range Complex of global engagement College Choice options. For example, ranked TCNJ’s BA in in the summer study Bliss Criminology abroad course Literary fifth Trenton Hall among the nation’s Landscapes, they follow the June footsteps of Dracula as they (Reception Center) top undergraduate criminology programs. Soccer Complex Walker journal in the eerie Whitby Field Abbey ruins in North Yorkshire, England. Metzger Drive Main Fitness Entrance Center Bookstore Ponder this Majors Hausdoerffer Phelps Lorem ipsum • A recent TCNJ political science major won admission to African American studies Administrative seven of the nation’s top law schools. She took a full ride Criminology Services to Columbia University to study civil rights law. CampusEnglish* Town • HumanitiesCampus and To Socialwn Dining Sciences students are History* frequent1. Paner recipientsa Bread of prestigious government 4. Piccolo Prgrantsonto InternationalRo studiesute 31 - Pennington Road like the2. BorenMexican and Mariachi Gilman Grill scholarships, 5. R whichedBerry support Frozen Yogurt Philosophy* overseas3. Y ummstudy.y Sushi Political science Psychology Sociology Spanish* Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies World languages and linguistics Undeclared–School of Humanities Learn more: and Social Sciences * Also available as a dual BA/MD through hss.tcnj.edu our seven-year medical program 9 4 Student Life 10 Where we thrive Everywhere! But to make the most of your time between classes, the Brower Student Center is the place to start. It’s HQ for more than 150 clubs, intramural sports teams, Greek life, and cultural and leadership programs. Other hot spots include the Green Playing Fields Spiritual Center, Roscoe L. West Hall for career advice and tutoring, and Eickhoff and Forcina halls for your health and Lake Sylva Spiritual wellness needs. Center Need a quiet place to Forcina Roscoe L. West Eickhoff destress or reflect? Your future is the focus at The Spiritual