NJCU President's Report - 2017

Making an Impact 2017 Report from the President

High Touch Speeds Student Success

By Sue Henderson, Ph.D., President, NJCU

A RECENT SURVEY OF COLLEGE ALUMNI CONFIRMED WHAT EVERY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT ALREADY KNOWS:

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hen asked who set them on a constructive path, at the top of the list are professors who made them excited about learning, professors who cared about them as persons, encouraged them, mentored them, and directed them in projects— what we call “high touch.”

Today’s students are quite different from those of yesterday. They are digital natives. They have grown up with the internet, smartphones, and social media. And yet, the need for “high touch” instruction is still as important as ever. No matter how easily information can be obtained online, the gap between merely possessing information and truly

understanding it is vast. Bridging this gap is what higher education is all about.

Understanding is best gained through active learning and interaction with faculty and other learners.

With so many of our students—especially students from the lower socioeconomic quartiles and firstgeneration college students—dropping out in their first several semesters, success requires that students get the very best instruction at the outset. The first courses that incoming freshmen take must be ones that motivate them, engage them in real learning, keep them on track, and give them a sense of belonging and purpose.

Because of the high cost and labor intensity of “high touch” education, it is tempting to embrace learning technologies designed to supplant the professor.

In some cases, such as post-baccalaureate studies, and job and professional development courses, the approach works well. The targeted students are already motivated and ready for the rigors of the proposed course of study. For freshman college students, however, readiness and motivation are in

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short supply. They have yet to learn how to learn, follow, and generate an argument and witness the serendipity of discovery. Few of us could acquire these skills without the expert guidance of an instructor or mentor.

I can think of no more challenging and rewarding assignment than teaching in the general education program. The faculty must bring to the classroom passion, inspiration, love of learning, and a desire to engage with students and celebrate their success. The great irony, however, is that in far too many of our institutions, the conflicting demands on time and talent result in general education being shortchanged and assigned a lower priority than honors courses, graduate instruction, and faculty research. A common practice is to assign general education courses to overworked and underpaid contingent faculty, newly minted assistant professors, or other faculty low in the departmental pecking order. Until institutions restructure so that general education is on par with instruction for majors and graduate students, as well as with faculty research and professional service, it will be nearly impossible for the general education program to attract the skilled

and dedicated faculty members needed to achieve its transformative “high touch” goals.

Only with a radical shift in priorities and organization will we provide today’s new undergraduates with the educational experience they need in order to succeed.

Large numbers of our most talented faculty must join the ranks of general education instructors. When we do use contingent faculty to teach these students, we must be sure that they have sufficient time and support commensurate with their professional standing that will allow them to engage the students in active and personalized learning.

All of the above costs money, of course. With budgets now stretched nearly to the breaking point, one more demand for additional resources may seem like one too many. However, the many institutions around the country that have made improving retention and graduation rates their top priority cannot afford to ignore a reordering of their priorities. Nothing is more important to the success of these efforts than having “high touch” faculty leading the way in our general education curriculum.

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Happy Anniversary, NJCU!

Jersey City Among 100 Best Cities for Millennials RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS HAVE ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO CONSIDER SETTING DOWN ROOTS IN NJCU’S HOMETOWN. JERSEY CITY recently ranked among the 100 best places to live in America for Millennials, according to a comprehensive assessment of cities and towns throughout the country. The state’s second largest city placed 23rd out of 100 urban centers on the 2017 Best Cities for Millennials Ranking, beating out such locales as New York City, San Diego, Chicago, Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Miami.

Niche, which conducted the assessment, is a website devoted to helping people find neighborhoods that are right for their lifestyles.

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his year marks a special time in New Jersey City University’s history as it celebrates its 90th anniversary! It has been a very exciting year, filled with many innovative new programs and initiatives. Since 1927, NJCU has evolved from a training school for teachers to one of the most comprehensive universities in the state, offering 43 undergraduate degree programs, 28 master’s programs, and two doctoral programs. As we reflect on the last nine decades of the University’s history, we realize we would not be the institution we are today without the dedication of our students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, and friends.

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Academic Excellence Institutional Achievements FIRST IN DIVERSITY New Jersey City University is first among regional universities in New Jersey for ethnic diversity within its student population, according to a September 2017 ranking from U.S. News & World Report. NJCU earned a diversity index of 0.72 and the diversity index ranged from 0.0 to 1.O. NJCU’s largest minority student population is Hispanic, at 38 percent.

NJCU GAINS NATIONAL RANKING FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ECONOMIC FUTURES The University received high marks for improving the upward mobility and economic futures of its students, according to a recent study of the role of colleges in intergenerational mobility released

by The Equality of Opportunity Project. According to the national study, Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility, NJCU ranked 23rd for intergenerational mobility within a group of 369 selective public colleges.

This means our graduates have a considerably enhanced likelihood of moving up two or more income quintiles into the middle or upper classes.

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HACU HONORS NJCU AS OUTSTANDING MEMBER The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities awarded NJCU with this year’s Outstanding HACU-Member Institution Award.

The award was established to recognize and honor the extraordinary efforts and success of an institution that has excelled in advancing the mission and goals of HACU. Established in 1986, HACU represents more than 470 colleges and universities committed to Hispanic higher education success in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin America, and Spain.

NJCU SCHOOL OF BUSINESS LAUNCHES PILOT PROGRAM WITH HBX, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL’S DIGITAL LEARNING INITIATIVE The School of Business has launched a pilot program with Harvard Business School’s digital learning initiative, HBX. The program will utilize HBX’s online platform to prepare entering graduate students with a non-business background for graduate studies in business. It will engage NJCU’s candidates for a Master of Business Administration with the HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, which offers an interactive, social, and case-based education in business analytics, economics, and financial accounting.

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NJCU STARTS MASTER’S DEGREE IN BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCE The NJCU School of Business has launched a Master of Science degree program in Business Analytics and Data Science, designed to prepare students for careers in the burgeoning field of data analytics. The Master of Science in Business Analytics and Data Science program will prepare students with the skills needed to gather, store, analyze, and interpret large amounts of “Big Data” to facilitate informed business decision-making. Data analytics is an area of strong employment growth. A recent study by McKinsey Global Institute projects about 500,000 jobs requiring data analysis skills by 2018, with a projected shortage of about 190,000 jobs.

A TOP PRODUCER OF MINORITY BACCALAUREATE DEGREES The University is listed in the top 50 of minority baccalaureate degree producers for history (34), security professions (38), and nursing (45), according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

FIRST IN AFFORDABILITY NJCU ranked first in affordability among public universities nationwide for Instructional Technology degrees. The University earned the top spot for its Master of Arts in Educational Technology and its Doctor of Education in Educational Technology Leadership, according to the 2017 College Affordability Guide.

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TOP NATIONAL MUSIC AWARD GOES TO NJCU New Jersey City University’s collegiate chapter of the National Association for Music Education is the 2017 recipient of the organization’s Collegiate Chapter of Excellence Award in the Professional Development category. The award is given to NAfMe collegiate chapters who have made a significant contribution to music education through successful chapter activities.

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Faculty Honors DR. EUNSU LEE EARNS ACBSP TEACHING AWARD Dr. EunSu Lee, Assistant Professor of Management at the NJCU School of Business, has been honored with a 2017 Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Teaching Excellence Award for Baccalaureate/ Graduate Degree Programs. Lee’s teaching abilities were measured against those of business school faculty from colleges and universities in the Northeast Region, an area that includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec.

DAVID WEISS HONORED WITH BOSKEY AWARD David Weiss, Esq., founder and director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution at the NJCU School of Business, was presented in September with the James A. Boskey Award for his contributions to mediation and his work on mediation policy in New Jersey to promote innovative mediation frameworks. The Boskey Award is widely recognized as the highest honor an individual can achieve in the development and practice of Alternate Dispute Resolution in the state.

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GUZMÁN APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF LEE HAGAN AFRICANA STUDIES CENTER Dr. Will Guzmán, a scholar of African/African American history and culture, has been appointed Director of the Lee Hagan Africana Studies Center at New Jersey City University. Guzmán came to NJCU in January 2017 from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, where he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and African American Studies. The Hagan center promotes academic excellence and social responsibility among faculty, students, and the surrounding community about issues necessary to the empowerment of peoples across the African Diaspora.

LAW & DISORDER EARNS KUDOS FROM THE NY TIMES NJCU History Professor Bruce Chadwick earned praise for his new book, Law & Disorder: The

Chaotic Birth of the NYPD (St. Martin’s Press, 2017) in The New York Times Book Review. Detailing New York City’s early, uncomfortable relationship with organized law enforcement, Chadwick’s book explores the evolution of the police force from the 1840s to the 1870s. It was an era when police tactics lurched from one extreme to another—from ineffectual public safety constables, to head-cracking thugs, to the professional Civil Service force that ultimately found the proper balance to effectively protect and serve.

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Student Achievements FOUR STUDENTS AND AN ALUMNA RECEIVE FULBRIGHT AWARDS NJCU set a new record with four students and an alumna receiving the prestigious and highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Awards for 20172018. These students are part of an elite group of only 2,000 students selected for this award from more than 10,000 applicants from various

NJCU MEDIATORS SHINE IN CITY OF LIGHT University students Justin Davis, Leman Kaifa, and Kaylee Saltos traveled to Paris to flex their negotiation muscles at the 12th ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition. Each year, a select group of university teams from around the world are invited to participate in this globally-renowned event – a week-long series of mock mediation sessions that allow students to put their classroom knowledge into practice and interact with some of the world’s top mediators. Students from any discipline are welcome to apply to the ICC event but the preponderance of mediation in legal matters favors law students. Out of the 66 colleges and universities invited to the Paris competition, NJCU was the sole business school in the U.S. to be accepted.

HONORED FOR OPERA institutions of higher learning in the United States. All of the students received the English Teaching Assistantship Fulbright grant (ETA) and are teaching overseas. The students are: Fabiana Rebollo, English and Special Education, Uruguay; Nicole Colon ’16, English, Malaysia; Ana Acosta, English, Peru; Iqra Choudry, English and Secondary Education, Indonesia, and Rubi Cedeno, Women and Gender Studies, South Africa. Professor of English Irma Maini is the Fulbright Program Advisor at the University.

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Al-Jabril Muhammad, a senior in the Music Program of NJCU’s Music, Dance and Theatre Department, earned top honors at the New Jersey National Association of Teachers of Singing (NJNATS) Festival of Singing. Earning first place in the Senior Men category, Muhammad’s performance piece was “Avant de quitter ces lieux,” an aria from the opera, Faust. The NJNATS Festival is an annual statewide event open to all New Jersey colleges and universities with accredited music programs.

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2017 NEW JERSEY HERO AWARD NJCU graduate student Kerry Magro was named a 2017 New Jersey Hero by First Lady Mary Pat Christie. Citing Magro’s commitment to autism awareness and empowerment, Christie presented him with the honor at a ceremony at the governor’s mansion in April.

STUDENTS SCORE BIG WIN AT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM MAGEE TOPS AS AN ATHLETE AND SCHOLAR Elyssa Magee ’17, the graduating captain of the women’s volleyball team at NJCU, recently received the Athletics “Presidential Academic Achievement Award,” with a 3.93 GPA. Magee, of Kearney, is the first women’s volleyball recipient since the 2010-2011 academic year and the second volleyball player to receive the honor. The award goes to the sophomorelevel and older student athletes with the top overall grade point averages.

“I owe a lot of my happiness of being at NJCU to people I met here, to my teammates, and to the different professors and coaches who definitely shaped my experience at the University over these last four years,” says Magee. “I made great friends, here, too. I couldn’t be where I am today without the people I met at NJCU.” 14 | New Jersey City University: 2017 Report from the President

Three NJCU student teams earned accolades for their research presentations at the William Paterson University Biological and Chemical Sciences Research Symposium. The Symposium provides a forum for undergraduates to present their original research to peers and professors. Students from 34 colleges, universities, and laboratories participated in the competition.

NJCU was represented by six teams of biology and chemistry students, and took honors in three categories: Physiology and Toxicology; Cell, Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Biological Sciences.

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NJCU STUDENTS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE GOLDMAN SACHS PROGRAM

MODEL UN EARNS ACCOLADES The Model UN delegation representing the University won two awards at the Annual Conference of the National Model United Nations (NMUN) in New York City.

Political Science major Steven Pollak beat out 190 competitors to earn the Outstanding Position Paper Award of the General Assembly Committee. The NJCU team was also named an Honorable Mention Delegation by the National Collegiate Conference Association.

CAMPUS COMPACT'S 2017 NEWMAN CIVIC FELLOWS Senior psychology major Collin Officer has been selected as one of 273 students for the 2017 cohort of the Newman Civic Fellows by Campus Compact, a Boston-based, non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a oneyear endeavor for community-committed college students from Campus Compact member institutions, which includes NJCU. Nominees for the fellowship have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country and abroad.

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Nine business students at the NJCU School of Business were among 40 undergraduates from various schools who delivered presentations in May on their proposed solutions to various business case challenges during the final day of the Goldman Sachs Local College Collaborative program. The presentations, which took place at Goldman Sachs’s global headquarters in New York City, showcased the outstanding work done by these exceptional students. During the program, the students regularly met with their Goldman Sachs mentors as they developed skills in leadership, career readiness, business management, analytical methods, teamwork, networking, and presentation. The NJCU students are: Norah Adewumi, Jake Buck, Kristina Bisumber, Paloma Duran, Aliza Naqvi Gonzalez, Christine Romero, Kimberly Seecharan, Kiola Toussaint, and Bryan Velasco.

STUDENTS TAKE PART IN INAUGURATION SEMINAR Three NJCU students, Phil Cranwell ’17, Will Ospina ’19, and Richard Pastrana ’16, ’17 M.S., were selected to attend The Washington Center’s Presidential Inauguration Seminar. The event, which took place in the nation’s capital from January 9 through Inauguration Day, consisted of a series of lectures, panel discussions, and site visits to government agencies, think tanks, and embassies to analyze the most pressing policy issues facing the U.S. The NJCU students’ participation in the seminar was partially financed by the University’s Office of the President.

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NJCU Abroad IN CHINA In late June, NJCU students traveled to China for more than 66 hours of language and cultural experiences in the cities of Changchun and Beijing. The journey, funded by the Confucius Institute, also included visits to the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Tian’anmen Square, and the Ming Tombs. NJCU presented a research lecture at the Changzhou University Hus Lookeng Honors College, and the University has been invited to attend the 2017 Changzhou Graduation Ceremony.

New Spaces on Campus SCIENCE BUILDING OPENS FOR FALL SEMESTER The fourth and fifth floors of the University’s newly expanded and renovated Science Building for the biology, chemistry, physics, and geosciences programs opened at the start of the fall semester. The 70,000 square-foot renovation of the existing building is part of a $34.6 million project to transform our science facilities into a signature building on campus and improve the technology infrastructure at the University to meet expanding needs. The upgrades include multipurpose classrooms, seminar and conference rooms, teaching and research laboratories, an astronomy observatory, computer labs, and equipment and instrumentation rooms. We are thrilled to welcome students, faculty, and staff to this exciting new space!

IN PERU For 10 days in May, a contingent of 16 NJCU students traveled to Peru to study the country’s agriculture, history, economy, and geography.

Led by then Assistant Biology Professor Terry Kamps and Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Virginia Ochoa-Winemiller, the trip was the culmination of the interdisciplinary course, Food, Place, and Cultural Performance in Peru. In this honors program, students explored how food choices are driven by culture and may be transformed by globalization, rural to urban migration, diaspora, and other mitigating factors.

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BUILDING LEGACIES, BRICK BY BRICK For the first time in the University’s history, NJCU students, alumni, faculty, staff, and parents have a special opportunity to leave a lasting legacy on campus through the purchase of a commemorative brick. With the development of the new Science Building on campus, NJCU is providing the University community with the unique opportunity to create a legacy that will last a lifetime on the newly established walkway located directly in front of the Science Building.

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NJCU Center for the Arts

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cultural hub of metronorth Jersey, NJCU boasts strong arts departments, led by accomplished international faculty, and presents an array of guest artists and speakers in addition to student performances. Throughout the fall, more than 30 performances, visual arts exhibitions, film screenings, artist talks, and literary readings were presented at NJCU and at local Jersey City venues. All events were open to the public and, for most, admission was free.

Highlights of the fall programming included the annual waterfront concert at J. Owen Grundy Pier by the NJCU Alumni Jazz Big Band, with guest jazz greats Jon Faddis, trumpeter, and singer Cyrille Aimée (Sept.

15) and a production of the Broadway and Hollywood hit musical Sister Act. In NJCU’s galleries, Underground Up brought street art into the gallery, along with exhibitions by MFA students (ongoing) and On a Different Page, a group show curated by Eileen Ferara that explored how books can be creatively used to make individual works of art.

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University Grants VISION FOR A FUTURE IN NURSING NJCU is the recipient of $5.2 million in capital improvement funds that will be used to establish a Nursing Education Center in an existing building on the West Campus. The Center will house state-of-the-art simulation labs, low-fidelity bed labs, student project areas for formal and informal collaboration, userfriendly classrooms equipped with smart technology, computer labs, and office and support space for faculty and staff. There will also be a mock quarantine/clean room in which students will have to don personal protective equipment and follow the strict protocols required when working in a contaminated setting.

NJCU RECEIVES $640,000 FOR FRONTIER SET PROJECT NJCU is among six member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to be selected to participate in the Frontier Set. The four-year project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to identify successful strategies to improve graduation rates, especially for lowincome, first-generation college students, and students of color.

The Frontier Set brings together 31 institutions and support partners representing the diversity of higher education around ambitious goals for student success through institutional transformation. The project is composed of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, and University Innovation Alliance members. Sites joining in 2017 included community colleges partnering with the Aspen Institute and fouryear, regional, comprehensive universities partnering with AASCU.

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NJCU’s Most Ambitious Campaign NJCU has launched its most comprehensive fundraising campaign – a $60 million initiative focused on four main areas of support: student success, health sciences, the School of Business, and the arts. To date, the University has raised $41 million – $31 million for its schools, and $10 million for scholarships and student success. These dollars have been raised by 3,051 generous supporters totaling $41,043,388.

GRANT AWARDED FOR NEW JERSEY YOUTH CORPS AT NJCU Less advantaged young people are facing a better future because of New Jersey City University’s recent award of a $545,000 grant from the state and federal governments to continue to operate New Jersey Youth Corps at NJCU. The University received $245,000 from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and $295,000 in federal funds for the program, which has been at NJCU for 29 years and is based on the Jersey City campus. New Jersey Youth Corps at NJCU has additional community service sites in Hudson and Essex counties.

One of the largest youth service and conservation corps in the United States, Youth Corps is a year-round, voluntary program that engages young adults aged 16 to 25, and who have not completed high school, in full-time community service, training, and educational activities.

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Blueprint for Tomorrow Gala Two acclaimed corporate partners and five real estate development firms were honored at the “Blueprint for Tomorrow” Gala at The Hyatt Regency on March 30.

Leading the roster of honorees was JPMorgan Chase & Co., which received the NJCU Corporate Partnership Award for Elevating Workforce Development.

Connell Foley LLP’s Managing Partner Philip F. McGovern, Jr., was recognized as a stalwart advocate for the NJCU School of Business Institute for Dispute Resolution since its founding in 2015.

The real estate development firms were honored for their commitment and vision as major partners in the physical transformation of NJCU and the creation of University Place, an anchor in the revitalization of Jersey City’s west side. The celebrated firms were Strategic Development Group, Claremont Construction Group Inc., Crossroads Companies, LLC, The Hampshire Companies, and KKF University Enterprises, LLC.

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Community, National, and International Connections PLEDGE OF SUPPORT FOR REFUGEES The University declared its unyielding support for refugees at the NJCU Student Union in February. The event, Open Arms, Open Hearts, Open Doors, was spearheaded by past and current student leaders of the Muslim Student Association. The hundreds of attendees included students, faculty,

NEW GLOBAL MEDIATION EXCHANGE CENTER The Global Mediation Exchange Center has been established under the leadership of David Weiss, founder and director of the NJCU School of Business Institute for Dispute Resolution, in Jersey City, to provide the business community with a resource for mediating disputes. The new mediation center was launched in the wake of Gov. Chris Christie’s signing of a dispute resolution statute in New Jersey that Weiss had proposed and is known as the New Jersey International Arbitration, Mediation, and Conciliation Act. According to Weiss, in an interview with Mediate.com, the legislation specifically addresses a known problem in international law: Mediated settlements of international disputes are not readily enforceable around the world.

The problem needs to be addressed in light of the exponential growth of comer-across-borders taking place among small and medium-sized U.S. businesses. In New Jersey alone, the state exported $32.1 billion worth of merchandise in 2015, much of it going to Canada and Mexico.

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administration, staff, local politicians, community leaders, and many refugee families from the Jersey City area. Since the Student Union event, work has begun to create the NJCU Refugee Center, whereby the University will

The NJCU School of Business Institute for Dispute Resolution hosted a scholastic conference in March, Redefining Risk for Family Businesses: Global Growth in the 21st Century. New Jersey is poised to become a center of international trade and dispute resolution of business-specific conflict. The program was attended by business-minded individuals, such as accountants and tax advisors, attorneys, estate planners, wealth managers, mediators, and those who are involved in small to mid-sized businesses located within the state. The diverse speakers provided valuable information and networking opportunities that will allow individuals to grow their business and client base.

develop collaborations with partners in the community to serve those in need.

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The Sport Report WOMEN'S SOCCER STAR WITH REMARKABLE LIFE STORY NAMED FIRST TEAM ALL-NJAC Sophomore Mallensy Vargas, center midfielder for women’s soccer at New Jersey City University, has a remarkable life story as a survivor of the gang-violence plagued nation of El Salvador. Her American Dream story continues to reflect honorably on the Gothic Knights. After being named New Jersey Athletic Conference coRookie of the Year as a freshman in 2016, Vargas this year was voted First-Team All-NJAC by the league's 10 head coaches. She is perhaps the most dangerous scoring threat in the area. Vargas is the first Gothic Knight women's player named First-Team All-NJAC since alltime leading scorer Jennifer Albuja in 2011. Vargas is now a two-time All-NJAC selection after earning Second-Team honors in 2016. She was also runner-up for NJAC Midfielder of the Year distinction.

NJCU HEAD MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH MARC BROWN HIGHLIGHTS 2017 MAAC HONOR ROLL

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES AMERICA’S SECURITY NJCU’s Professional Security Studies Department hosted the 5th Northeast Regional Security Education Symposium in March, addressing the topic, Investing in America’s Security: Cybersecurity Issues. Milan Patel, of K2 Intelligence, formerly the FBI’s Cyber Division Chief Technology Officer, delivered the keynote address. The symposium also provided the opportunity to celebrate the continued success and growth of NJCU’s first doctoral program, the Doctor of Science in Civil Security Leadership, Management and Policy.

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New Jersey City University head men’s basketball coach, Marc Brown, now in his 11th season with the Gothic Knights, is already a two-time New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. But before that, he played 16 years professionally and was Siena’s greatest player ever. Recently, he was honored as part of the 2017 MAAC Honor Roll.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL HONORED WITH SECOND TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD The New Jersey City University women’s volleyball team has been honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) for its success in the classroom, earning the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2016-17 academic year. It’s only the second time the NJCU women’s volleyball program has achieved the national distinction. NJCU is one of only two schools in the New Jersey Athletic Conference to earn the distinction.

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NJCU FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Luke Visconti, B.S., ’13 (Hon.), Chair Peter Hernandez, B.S., Vice Chair & Treasurer Thomas J. Stanton III, B.A., Secretary Kwi Brennan, M.B.A., Executive Director Robert Antonicello, M.S., Real Estate Development Wilton Thomas-Hooke, M.B.A., ex officio Anthony V. Bastardi, M.S.I.E. Alex Forrester, B.A., ’10 (Hon.) Sang Jin Kim, Ph.D. Rita Mitjans, M.B.A. Edward O’Connor, M.B.A. Alfred R. Parinello ’73, B.A. Caryn Parlavecchio, M.A. Chirag Patel ’89, B.S. Dagmar Rosa-Bjorkeson, M.B.A. Paul Silverman, B.A. J. Cole Slattery ’82, M.P.A. Judith Wodynski ’76, M.A. ’77 Sue Henderson, Ph.D., ex officio

NJCU BOARD OF TRUSTEES Rafael Perez, J.D., Chair Owen Ryan ’85, B.S., M.B.A., CPA, Vice Chair Marilyn Williams Bennett ’71, M.A., ’75, M.A. T. Steven Chang, Ph.D. Henry A. Coleman, Ph.D. Edward P. Fowlkes James Jacobson, B.A. Vijayant Pawar, J.D. Carlos A. Rendo, J.D. Joseph F. Scott, FACHE Edward A. Whittaker, Ph.D. John J. Moore ’56, J.D., L.L.M. Trustee Emeritus

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