1. Sunita Kramer, Science<\/strong> Fun fact: <\/span>\u201cI love to grow plants, vegetables, and flowers. A few minutes in the garden helps me to see things in new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n 2. Kathryn Jervis, Business<\/strong> Fun fact: <\/span>\u201cI play handbells with church groups. It\u2019s relaxing and provides great fellowship.\u201d<\/p>\n 3. Suzanne McCotter, Education<\/strong> Fun fact: <\/span>\u201cI\u2019m a board game player. Settlers of Catan<\/em> is a favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n 4. Carole Kenner, Nursing and Health Sciences<\/strong> Fun fact: <\/span>\u201cI like to needlepoint.\u201d<\/p>\n 5. Jane Wong, Humanities and Social Sciences<\/strong> Fun fact: <\/span>\u201cI am an avid Star Trek<\/em> fan. The original series illuminates issues of social injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n 6. Lorna Johnson-Frizell, Arts and Communication Fun fact: <\/span>\u201cI love to travel. I come from a family of nomads, and I have lived in three countries.\u201d<\/p>\n 7. Andrea Welker, Engineering Fun fact: <\/span>\u201cI\u2019m a group exercise person. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I like the classroom environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meet TCNJ\u2019s academic deans. A first for the college, they are all female. 1. Sunita Kramer, Science \u201cScience has become more specialized as our knowledge has advanced. Addressing the most complex societal problems will require collaboration and opportunities for students to engage in creative, cross-disciplinary problem-solving.\u201d Fun fact: \u201cI love to grow plants, vegetables, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":12017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12011,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions\/12011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cScience has become more specialized as our knowledge has advanced. Addressing the most complex societal problems will require collaboration and opportunities for students to engage in creative, cross-disciplinary problem-solving.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIntegrity is one of our core values. Our faculty and staff model the tenets of respect, and collaboration drives student success. Our curriculum considers ethical values through case studies to prepare students for the professional world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe train students to work with every child or client who comes before them. Inclusion is stressed and our students see racial, socioeconomic, linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity. Employers move TCNJ graduates to the top of the pile of applicants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe meet the health needs of our community through innovation and excellence. Our faculty are internationally recognized and write the textbooks that set the standards in their fields. Our graduates are at the forefront of providing care, education, screening, and exercise to increase wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cEach of the humanities and social sciences disciplines tells the human story in some form. We offer opportunities to study abroad, engage in mentored scholarship, pursue field experiences, or participate in community-engaged learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019re the school of the storytellers; we hold the cultural narratives. Our students learn by doing. They publish; they produce; they create. They also study the history of their craft.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe demand for engineers is high. Our broad education, coupled with discipline-specific knowledge, makes our graduates well positioned to solve the problems of today and tomorrow. Engineers make the world better.\u201d<\/p>\n