The following excerpts are from newspaper and magazine articles. Copies of the complete articles are available from the Office of Public Information, College Hall, Room 313.
"This love and concern for the environment begins with younger students and teachers. College students can major in biology with an environmental science concentration, and we all have an Earth and Environmental Studies (department). Each of these courses of study takes different approaches to understand and work within the environment." Robert Prezant, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics in an article headlined "Getting Back to Nature" in the Aug. 4 Sunday Star-Ledger. "Currently we are developing a doctoral program in environmental management that we hope will be available in fall 2003," he added.
In an article headlined "A Lesson in State Education Programs" in the Aug. 4 Sunday Star-Ledger, Montclair State University's teacher education program is cited as having a unique focus that has garnered many awards, including its recent recognition from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 2002 Award for Best Practices in Support of Diversity in Teacher Education. "We have built our teacher education program around our Agenda for Teacher Education in a Democracy," Ada Beth Cutler, dean of the College of Education and Human Services, said in the article.
"The people are very different from the stereotypes you learn (from TV). They don't drink, they're very friendly and they do like America--at least Americans." Senior Brian Koza in an article headlined "From Piscataway to Russia--With Music: Montclair State senior has unforgettable experience on a concert tour" in the June 7 Piscataway Review. Koza plays trumpet in the MSU Concert Band, which toured Moscow, St. Petersberg and Saratov in May.
"Philosophy is not a traditional school subject, and we have a tendency to do the things that are traditional." Matthew Lipman of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children in an article headlined "Extracurricular Thinking" in the May 14, 2002 Washington Post.