Monmouth’s Class of 2024 is the most racially diverse class yet, with students of color representing 33.1 percent of the class, according to President Leahy. This is compared to 28.7 percent of last year’s incoming class and 29.0 percent the year before that, Leahy said. He also said that Monmouth’s success with student diversity resulted […]
The University has taken steps to maintain accessibility to learning and study resources at the Guggenheim Memorial Library.
University President Patrick Leahy informed students that annual tuition will increase by 2.75 percent for the 2020-21 academic year, in an email announcement sent on Wednesday, June 24.
The University has removed Woodrow Wilson’s name from its marquee building and renamed it to the Great Hall of Shadow Lawn in an effort to cultivate a more inclusive campus community, announced by President Leahy in a June 19 email.
President Patrick F. Leahy Ed.D., held an open call for returning students to learn more information regarding the University’s fall reopening plan. The call touched on topics related to COVID-19 safety, student housing, activities, remote learning and more on Tuesday, Aug 18. Leahy hosted the call “… with the aim to simply give [students] information […]
In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the University has begun a fully-online system for ordering food from the Student Center dining hall.
Starting on Wednesday, Aug. 25 until Friday, Aug. 27 Monmouth University delivered on their promise to the student body hosting nine in-person graduation ceremonies in three days.
On May 26th and May 27th 2020, the MPRCA team prepared emails for Federal Pell Grant recipients and Pell eligible graduate students (“Pell eligible students”) to send to Monmouth’s CARES Act Grant team. In these emails, students inquired on their eligibility for CARES emergency relief aid and attached financial aid award letters of a student who did receive CARES aid and a student who did not. The CARES Act grant team responded to these emails, denying these Pell eligible students CARES aid with a justification that the students did not demonstrate “Unmet Need.”
On Wednesday, June 3, the Monmouth Pell Recipients for CARES Aid (MPRCA), a student organization recently established to address Pell grant recipients from Monmouth who have not yet received CARES aid despite eligibility, sent a letter to President Patrick Leahy and the Monmouth CARES Act Grant team. Students have also formed a petition to address these concerns, which has circulated the Monmouth community and has nearly met its goal of 1,000 signatures. The MPRCA letter to Leahy is published below.
Following Governor Murphy’s order for all schools to transition to remote learning, students and professors within the departments for arts and sciences, whose coursework requires laboratory projects, artwork, and performances have adapted to ensure that learning for their courses remains effective.