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Art
Let it snow...The Montclair State campus is a beautiful site covered in
flreshly fallow snow. University Photographer Mike Peters captured the
beauty of the University in winter just hours after the season's first
snowstorm New Year's Eve day.
Montclair State soon to fly its pride and joy
Karen Pennington was
walking by the Student Center one day last semester when, gazing up at the
flagpoles in the Quad, she realized something was missing - Montclair State's
own flag. "We fly the American flag and many celebratory flags, like those
for National Hispanic Month, Women's History Month and National Coming Out
Day, for instance, but we don't have a flag for the University," said the
vice president for Student Development and Campus Life. Full
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Visiting scholar chooses MSU
Each year the U.S.
Dept. of Education (USDOE) selectively chooses 300 people nationwide to
become visiting scholars for a developmental assignment in an area of
their professional interest. This year one of those people is Norma Fleischman,
a policy analyst with the department. She chose Montclair State.Full
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New center fosters an engaged campus
For 26 years, more
than 10,000 Montclair State students have participated in experiential
education through the Cooperative Education program. Six years ago, students
were introduced to the opportunity to learn about active citizenship and
service to the community through the Service-Learning program. Today,
these two programs, as well as other applied learning activities that
will help foster an engaged campus, comprise the University's newly established
Center for Community-Based Learning.
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Artists work on Mother Courage Project
Three
outstanding artists were on campus this month exploring motherhood from
the perspective of the African-American female experience. Director
and filmmaker Demetria Royals, an associate professor of Contemporary
Arts at Ramapo College; choreographer and performer Anita Gonzalez,
an assistant professor of theater at Florida State University; and theater
artist Robbie McCauley, an assistant professor of theater and dance
at Trinity College, are combining their talents for the Mother Courage
Project. Their efforts will result in a multi-media restaging of Bertolt
Brecht's classic play of struggle and survival within the historical
context of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era..
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