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The College of New Jersey
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
At TCNJ’s School of Business, New Jer- sey’s top-ranked undergraduate B-school, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, students are prepared with both theory and applied skills. This fall, for example, each first-year student will have training in Microsoft Excel. Early exposure to Excel— a program used in all types of organiza- tions—will prepare them for future class- work as well as upcoming internships and jobs. Administrators want TCNJ business graduates to enter New Jersey employers with a foundational set of skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, and strong oral and written communication skills. Addition- ally, internships are strongly encouraged to help students gain practical experience. The college provides numerous opportu- nities for students to interact with alumni and other business professionals.
HEALTH AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
TCNJ’s Health and Exercise Science
department gets students into real-world learning environments early in the edu- cational process. Field experiences may take place in local schools, fitness centers, hospitals, or physical/occupational therapy clinics. During field and internship experi- ences, students create and complete a project that can be of use to the internship site/school to help students, patients, front office staff, doctors, trainers, teachers, and/or the community. These field and internship experiences teach students that they can always, and should always, look to contribute in meaningful ways.
RN TO BSN PROGRAM
As hospitals continue to require their RNs to earn bachelor’s degrees in nurs- ing—prompted by evidence that patient mortality and morbidity rates are inversely proportional to the percentage of nurses on staff with a BSN—TCNJ
is trying to make it easier for working RNs to go back to school. Since 2012, it has been bringing the classroom to the hospitals where they work. The program is now offered at four locations: Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, Hunterdon Medical Center
in Flemington, Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell, and, starting this fall,
Fostering life-long learning with n alternative curriculum
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courses on specialized topics—often trends in the industry— that aren’t addressed in the school’s traditional curriculum. This year, TCNJ is running Advanced CSS, Mashups, Digital Fabrication, Native Android Applications, and User Experience Design.
One of the goals of creating IMM mini courses was to foster lifelong learning. Because this field changes so frequently,
it is easy for skills learned during college to become out of date. The mini courses allow alumni to receive “routine main- tenance” each year, and learn new skills. Alumni will teach most of the mini courses and much of the content is what’s trending in the industry. Having alumni take mini courses alongside current students allows current students to learn from people in the working field, and possibly forge some business connections.
CNJ offers Interactive Multimedia (IMM) mini
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