eFocus Campus Newsletter

State-of-the-Art Preakness Hall Opens for Fall 2017 Semester 

 

Renovated academic facility on campus houses four top-of-the-line kinesiology laboratories, 14 smart classrooms, a 90-seat auditorium, numerous small and large group study rooms

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William Paterson University to Host 2017 New Jersey Gubernatorial Debate on October 18, 2017 

 

William Paterson student will be selected to ask a question to candidates during live broadcast; Faculty and students will participate in post-debate panel discussion

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U.S. Department of Education Awards $99,000 Fulbright-Hays Grant to William Paterson Professors Kabba Colley and Darlene Russell for Group Study in Senegal 

 

College of Education faculty will accompany group of both aspiring and professional teachers on 12-week trip to conduct research and advance global awareness and interdisciplinary instruction about the region

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Retirement Celebration Led to the Launch of the Nan Guptill Crain Scholarship Fund  

 

Nan Guptill Crain, professor of music at William Paterson for 48 years, retired in May 2017 and created an endowed scholarship for $25,000

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University Commemorates World War I With University Galleries Exhibition Of World War I Posters Curated by Professor George Robb 

 

More than 20 propaganda posters from the Special Collections Division of the Newark Public Library will be on view, many not publicly exhibited since 1919

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Accounting Student Receives $10,000 Merit-Based Scholarship 

 

Talia Spille of Mount Tabor, NJ, an accounting major at William Paterson University, is one of 167 students nationwide who were to chosen to receive a $10,000 merit-based scholarship from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)

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University Offering an MA in Higher Education Administration Degree at Mercer County Community College 

 

Students will soon be able to complete a master of arts degree in higher education administration from William Paterson University at the Mercer County Community College (MCCC) campus, as part of an expanding agreement between the two institutions

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One Person, Big Difference: Alumna Leads the Fight Against Hunger 

 

Joan McNerney Skudera ’96 launches grassroots effort to enact positive change

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