{"id":8512,"date":"2013-12-11T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:09:48","slug":"castaldo-assumes-alumni-affairs-senior-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8512","title":{"rendered":"Castaldo assumes alumni affairs senior post"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8513\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/castaldo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8513\" alt=\"John Castaldo \u201982, MEd \u201983 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/castaldo.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Castaldo \u201982, MEd \u201983<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>John Castaldo \u201982, MEd \u201983<\/strong> was installed as executive director of alumni affairs on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over the reins, Castaldo has been working with alumni, the Alumni Association Executive Board, and the Alumni Association to \u201cbuild bridges between the many individuals who have had great connections with the College,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One of his top priorities, he said, is expanding services and outreach to TCNJ alumni nationwide. \u201cAs we work to strengthen and expand our alumni network nationally, all alumni, as well as the College, will benefit from developing global ties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He seeks to foster new levels of engagement with all those connected to TCNJ, with the overarching goal of promoting active volunteerism by alumni. \u201cTheir involvement is essential to creating stability and continued growth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Castaldo has served the College for nearly 20 years\u2014most recently as executive director for athletics and recreation since January 2008. Prior to that, he coached TCNJ\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team for 14 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Trenton, Castaldo earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in urban administration and a master\u2019s degree in administration of physical education and athletic management from TCNJ. His wife, Colleen \u201990, and several family members, including a daughter, are also TCNJ alumni. Another daughter is currently a student at the College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Castaldo \u201982, MEd \u201983 was appointed executive director of alumni affairs in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-campus","category-winter-2013"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}