The College of New Jersey

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CAMPUS NAME AND ADDRESS


The College of New Jersey

P.O. Box 7718, 2000 Pennington Road

Ewing, NJ 08628-0718

www.tcnj.edu

 

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)


The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a highly selective institution that has earned national recognition for its commitment to excellence. Founded in 1855, TCNJ has become an exemplar of the best in public higher education and is consistently acknowledged as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the nation. TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the 75 “Most Competitive” schools in the nation by Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges and is rated the No. 1 public institution in the northern region of the country by U.S. News & World Report. TCNJ was also awarded, in 2006, a Phi Beta Kappa chapter—an honor shared by less than 10 percent of colleges and universities nationally.

 

KEY FACTS


Location: 30-40 Minutes from Philadelphia

Enrollment: 5,000 Students

Other interesting tidbits:

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE


Name of Campus-Wide Center: The Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement

Relevant website: http://www.tcnj.edu/~bonner/scholars.html

 

Type of Program: Bonner Community Scholars

Year Began: 2004

Bonner Program website: Same as above

 

Number of Bonner Community Scholars: 60

Number of Bonners Community Scholars in NJBLP/AmeriCorps positions: 15

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  Yes

 

KEY CONTACTS


President: Barbara Gitenstein

Bonner Center Director: Patrick Donohue

Bonner Associate Director:  Paula Figueroa-Vega

Bonner Program Assistant: Richard Wilson

Democracy Project Fellow/Civic & Political Education:  Todd Stoner

Democracy Project Fellow/Youth Development: Morgan Reil

Bonner Senior Interns: Brittany Aydelotte, Liz Moody, Amanda Martinez, Leanne Hershkowitz

Bonner Congress Representatives: Marc Williams

 

 

MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)


As part of your Annual Report 2008, we ask all campuses to add 1-2 paragraphs here that describe a few highlights of the programmatic activities from this year.  For instance, you may choose to capture an aspect of a very successful trip or a campus-wide service initiatives.  Or you may describe some key work you did with community partners, or your efforts to incorporate community-based research with faculty.  As part of your larger Campus Profile, these few paragraphs should provide a sense of elements that are particularly strong and/or unique about your Bonner Program.  You can delete this instruction text when you are done.

 

You also want to:

1)  Review the rest of the profile and edit it for accuracy, add photos, and so on.

2)  Click on the link below to take you to a second wiki page where you can submit a more extended program report as part of your Annual Report.

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 


Click here to complete next wiki-based portion of Annual Report.  

 

 

PHOTOS


Feel free to upload photos, especially of events like Orientation, First Year Trip, Second Year Exchange, Congress Representatives and Senior Interns, Campus-Wide projects, or the Bonner community.  Provide brief captions if you can.

 

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