NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 8/17/20-8/21/20

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Accreditation Assessment Team Invites Public Comment for NJIT Police Department

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
A team of assessors from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) will virtually examine all aspects of the NJIT Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations, and support services Chief Joseph Marswillo announced today. This assessment will occur on Mond...

Interior Design Program Gets a Stamp of Approval From CIDA Accreditation Board

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Thanks to all the hard work by Interior Design Program Coordinator David Brothers pictured above, and A+D Dir. emeritus Glenn Goldman, and all of the excellent faculty who teach these courses, the Interior Design program continues to be one of the best programs in the country to get your degree. ...

Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Releases 'When The Black Squares Fade'

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
The NJIT Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) recently released a video entitled, "When The Black Squares Fade," that reinforces the Highlander student-athlete community's commitment to social justice. The video - written, edited, and produced completely by NJIT SAAC, features over a dozen stu...

Message from President Bloom: COVID-19 Update 8/14/20

Friday, August 14th, 2020
Dear NJIT Students, Faculty, and Staff As we approach the onset of our Fall semester and the start of classes, NJIT will welcome members of our university back to campus and deliver a significant amount of in-person instruction as well as residence options for our students. We will do so responsibly...

Graduate from NJIT@JerseyCity First Cohort Shares His Experience

Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Voluminous amounts of data can be overwhelming to even the most experienced professional. That was the experience of Roberto Rivera, a senior research analyst with NJ TRANSIT. Spending his days immersed in large data sets, Roberto realized that continuing his education would provide him with additio...

Summertime Look Back: The NJIT Student Athletes Who Excelled

Thursday, August 13th, 2020
In mid-June, NJIT joined the America East conference, a 10-team league now including schools from New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. But as a Division I program for more than a decade already, the university has achieved many athletic triumph...

Free Subscriptions to Barron's for NJIT Students, Spots Are Limited

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
NJIT students can now access a free digital subscription to the Barron’s in Education Program from Dow Jones. The online offering provides entry to Barron’s, which includes its renowned financial portal and magazine, experiential learning and networking opportunities, and more. Students signing up f...

NJIT Student Senate Makes Historic, Morale-Boosting Gift to the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after ...

Historic Science Fiction Offers Lessons for Living With Pandemics

Monday, August 10th, 2020
Science fiction sometimes shows us the future, but really just shows us ourselves, asserts Associate Professor of Humanities and sci-fi aficionado Nancy Steffen-Fluhr. She was teaching the 2014 novel Station Eleven, about a troupe of actors and musicians struggling for normalcy after a global pandem...