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Montclair State offers scholarships to children of World Trade Center victims

UPPER MONTCLAIR, N. J. -Montclair State University will offer scholarships to dependent students who are New Jersey residents who lost their parents in the World Trade Center disaster, MSU President Susan A. Cole announced today.

“The tragic acts our country experienced September 11 were the product of profound hate and ignorance,” Dr. Cole said. “The only effective antidote to hate is knowledge, understanding and a commitment to a common humanity. We must educate ourselves to shape a world in which such things do not happen.”

MSU is New Jersey’s second largest university. It offers the advantages of a large university -- a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum with a global focus, a broad variety of superior graduate programs, and a diverse faculty and student body -- combined with a small college’s attention to students.

More information on the University is available on its website: www.montclair.edu.

MSU is located at the intersection of Valley Road and Normal Avenue in Upper Montclair. The campus is one mile south of the junction of routes 3 and 46, 14 miles west of New York City.