Imagine going to Madison Square Garden for a Knicks game but you also get a tour of the arena and get to hear from a panel of sports industry professionals? Some MU students don’t have to imagine anymore because they got to live it. On March 28, the Monmouth Sports Industry Club spearheaded a trip […]
Johanna Foster, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Endowed Chair in Social Ethics, and President of The Faculty Union at Monmouth University (FAMCO), received the 2022 Marilyn Sternberg Award from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). According to the AAUP, the award was established in 1981 and recognizes the AAUP member “who best demonstrates concern […]
As part of the Annual H.R. Young Lecture Series, the Leon Hess Business School (LHBS) co-sponsored and featured guest speaker Patrick Radden Keefe on Thursday, April 7. Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the […]
Performed in the late 1960’s, Lygia Pape’s Divisor, or Divider, aimed to allow the viewer to interact with art in a new way. Divisor itself was meant to work as a multi-sensory art piece and create a direct relationship between the artwork and the viewer. Pape was able to transform the observer into the participant […]
Looking back on the beginning of this semester, the last thing I thought I’d be doing is working in a virtual, remote internship in Guatemala. Not in the urban parts, booming with industry, but in the rural communities trapped by poverty. This semester, I interned for A Better Life Guatemala (ABLG) with the hopes of […]
The Faculty Association and the Helen Bennett McMurray Endowment for Social Ethics hosted a webinar about the impact of for-profit outsourcing in higher education on Thursday, March 31. The featured guest speaker was Stephanie Hall, Ph.D., senior fellow and teacher education policy expert from The Century Foundation, one of the oldest public policy research institutes […]
This semester, Monmouth students from different academic disciplines came together for their Information Systems Project Management class (IT-450) to develop a website for a local business, the Children’s Center of Monmouth County. Jamie Kretsch, MS, Senior Specialist Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software, teaches the course. “IT-450 is the Capstone course in […]
The Department of World Languages and Cultures at Monmouth University has pursued many unique initiatives to promote the campus’s mission for increased inclusivity and diversity. As Mirta Barrea-Marlys, PhD, Associate Professor of Spanish/Italian and Chair of the Department retires from her eleven-year tenure as chair, the Department’s faculty reflect on the programs and advancements that […]
“Lovely, don’t you ever change…” you hear that classic Frank Sinatra song floating out from the Italian restaurant you are about to enter. “Keep that breathless charm…” It is a Sunday afternoon, you finished all of your homework that was holding you up, and you are about to enjoy an early dinner. “Won’t you please […]
As the spring semester comes to a close, that means it’s almost time for a well-deserved break. However, before you head off into vacation mode, it’s also that time where you begin to think about the type of classes you want to register for the upcoming school year. On Thursday Apr. 8, early/priority registration will […]