Financial Aid Office hours for Spring 2025 In-Person Registration: Starting January 13 through January 31.

Monday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m to 6:30 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m.

Office of Student Accounts (Bursars Office) for Spring 2025 In-Person Registration: Starting January 13 through January 31.

Monday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m to 6:30 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Larry D. Johnson Jr. has served as the second president of the Stella and Charles Guttman Community College-CUNY since July 2021. Prior to joining Guttman, Johnson served as the first Black president of Phoenix College—a first in the college’s 100-year history. He has also served as provost, department chair, and a full-time faculty at two and four-year institutions. Dr. Johnson is a fierce advocate for fostering diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in higher education. He has been instrumental in cultivating an ecosystem that supports culturally responsive pedagogy and establishing the vision for the institution to holistically support students, faculty, and staff.

In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, NJCU will be closed on Monday, January 20, 2025. This federal holiday honors Dr. King's profound legacy of civil rights leadership and his enduring vision of racial equality and justice. We encourage our campus community to use this day not only as a time of reflection, but also as a day of service – embracing Dr. King's belief that "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

The spring semester will begin and university offices will reopen on Tuesday, January 21.

University Closed
No events are scheduled.

Spring 2025 Semester Begins

The 2025 season is here for Coach Carlo Edra and the Gothic Knights! Check NJCU men's volleyball out for the first time in person as it hosts the Drew University Rangers.

Admission is always free for NJCU men's volleyball.

No events are scheduled.

35th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Brunch
Thursday, January 23 | 11 a.m.
The Gothic Lounge (Hepburn Hall Room 202)

See Spotlight Events for more information.

No events are scheduled.

No events are scheduled.

No events are scheduled.

January is National Blood Donation Month. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood or platelets, however, only about 3% of age-eligible people donate blood yearly.

Your blood donation can save three lives. Appointments preferred; walk-ins welcome if space permits. Remember to eat, drink, and bring your donor ID or personal ID with name and photo.

Sign up at: 

https://donate.nybc.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/328044 or www.nybc.org/drive. Sponsor code 07616 

Sign up for our workshop on resume writing and cover letters. This event will be focused on those entering STEM fields.

These workshops will continue throughout the Spring 2025 semester as part of the #CareerReadyKnights series.

Check This Week at NJCU every week for additional events.

NJCU women's basketball is back in action when it welcomes to Jersey City historically one of the best teams in the country in the Amherst College Mammoths. You'll want to see this one.

Basketball tickets must be purchased in advance on the Hometown Ticketing app; no cash is accepted.

Looking to expand your skills or explore a new passion? NJCU’s Adult and Continuing Education is now enrolling for Spring 2025! Discover a variety of flexible, non-credit offerings designed for personal and professional growth.

Featured programs include:

Explore the full list of programs and register today. Don’t wait spring into learning with NJCU today!

For more details or to enroll, contact us: Adult and Continuing Education    | 201-200-3089 | conted@njcu.edu

Select a therapist that aligns with your personal preferences, including gender, language, ethnicity, and area of expertise. Additionally, choose a time that suits your schedule, whether it be during the day, night, or weekend. You can conveniently connect with them through video, phone, chat, or message.

Experiencing a mental health crisis?

Help is available 24/7/365 by contacting: 866-646-1526.

Ask. Listen. Refer. is an online suicide prevention training designed to give you the skills to recognize signs of suicide and have a conversation with someone you are concerned about. As we continue to dedicate ourselves to increasing mental health awareness, and suicide prevention efforts, this training is essential for all of our offices. It will take about 15-20 minutes and has very valuable information.

Ask. Listen. Refer. is designed to help faculty, staff, and students prevent suicide by teaching them to:

Ask. Listen. Refer. provides a certificate of completion, and also includes a pre and post-test. If you need proof of completion, please connect with me, as I will be able to track its participants. This interactive online suicide prevention program has been shown to increase the ability of students to recognize and respond to peers at risk for suicide.

This is an excellent, convenient program that is a great resource for our division and the campus.

This amazing event will connect small businesses directly with banks that offer loans to them. Partnering with SBA and other organizations this will be an opportunity no business owner will want to miss!

The Speicher-Rubin Women's Center for Equity and Diversity and the PRIDE Center are kicking off the new year with another Vision Board event taking place on Tuesday, January 28 at 1 p.m. A new feature is Vision Bingo! You bring your visualization of goals for 2025, and we will supply the materials and refreshments.

Partnering with No Plan B and The Next Generation Network, this will be a paid event that women-owned businesses can attend to create and plan their visions for 2025. Supplies will given to make their vision boards a reality.

What to expect:

The NJCU Lemmerman Gallery is pleased to present "Pat Lay: Hybrid", to showcase highlights of the prolific multimedia artist, Pat Lay, who is based in Jersey City. Over two decades Lay’s artwork has explored technological metaphors of human experience. Her sculptures, made of fired clay, computer parts and other readymade elements, are hybrid forms that have cross-cultural references and question what it means to be human.

In Lay’s collages, digital images scanned from computer circuit boards are transformed into a new matrix. Reminiscent of Buddhist mandalas, these abstractions are created in response to our world of technological advancement and digital progress. In her ongoing series, "Soul Bots and Nested Bots", she embeds computer parts such as aluminum heat sinks and cooler fans in organic clay forms, suggesting possible hybrid creatures and plants of the near future. “How are we as humans changed by the new advances in technology?” Lay asks. By working both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, Lay seeks answers to the question through visual and tactile explorations.

Pat Lay (born in Milford, Conn.) has been a professional artist since 1968. She lived in SoHo, New York City for 12 years before settling in Jersey City, NJ in 1981. She received a B.S. degree from Pratt Institute and an MFA in ceramic sculpture from Rochester Institute of Technology. Lay is a retired Professor of Art at Montclair State University.

Lay has received grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She has been awarded several public art commissions including the installation of a large-scale site-specific sculpture in the sculpture park at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, Norway.

She has had solo exhibitions at Elza Kayal Gallery, Tribeca, NYC; Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey; the Jersey City Museum; New Jersey State Museum; and Douglass College, Rutgers University. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in Japan, Austria, Korea, China, Norway, Wales and Slovakia and at the Jersey City Museum, Newark Museum, New Jersey State Museum, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Everson Museum, and the 1975 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lay’s work is featured in a number of books including "Lives and Works", "Talks With Women Artists", Volume II by J. Arbeiter, B. Smith, S. Swenson; and "The Craft and Art of Clay", Editions 1995, 1999, 2012, 2024, by Susan Peterson. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the following public collections: Montclair Art Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway; Montclair State University, Jingdezhen Sanbao Art Institute, China; Rutgers University, Aidekman Center; and IBM, Rochester Institute of Technology.

The Office of Marketing and Communications is providing free professional headshots for you to use on your Faculty & Staff Directory pages or LinkedIn profile. Just stop by to see our university photographer, Paul Gargiulo. We'll offer these sessions at least one day each month, so if you can't make this one, check This Week at NJCU for future dates. 

No matter where you are in life—just getting started or planning for retirement—a session with Joe Del Grande can help you create a plan for your goals. And it's at no cost as a part of your retirement plan.

You’ll get answers to these questions and more.

RSVP today, as space is limited. Register for sessions at www.tiaa.org/schedulenow or by calling 800-732-8353, weekdays, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (ET). We look forward to working with you.

The NJCU Office of Specialized Services and Supplemental Instruction (OSS/SI), which provides equal access to college programs through the provision of reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, will be spending the day in the Office of Military & Veterans Services. Please stop by with any questions on how they can assist you, as you navigate your academic career. Some common concerns they can assist with include, but are not limited to, physical disabilities, mental health challenges, learning disabilities, and mild TBI's and PTSD. Please stop by for more information.

For more information about any of the scheduled events, please contact the Office of Military and Veterans Services at 201-200-3199 visit www.njcu.edu/veterans.

The Division of Academic Affairs invites you to join us for our next open forum on Wednesday, February 5 from 2-4 p.m. in the Michael B. Gilligan Student Union Multipurpose Room B.

This forum is open to all NJCU faculty, staff, and students. This is a great opportunity to get updates on what’s happening on campus, discuss concerns, and share ideas!

Mark your calendars and join Donna Adair Breault, Ph.D., Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Jonelle Knox, Assistant Provost of Student Success and Retention, Dr. Jason Martinek, Assistant Provost of Faculty and Staff Development, Dr. Scott O’Connor, Assistant Provost of Academic Programming, and the deans of our four colleges for this open forum.

These forums, which will be in a similar format as the university-wide Campus Conversations the university holds each semester, will be regularly scheduled throughout the year.

For further information, please email the Office of the Provost at provost@njcu.edu.

And save the following dates for additional forums:

The Student Government Association will hold its first general council meeting of the spring semester.

Future Dates:

The NJCU Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to hold an exhibition of the Jersey-City-based sculptor, Jerome China. "Found and Reclaimed" is an exploration of rediscovery, transformation, and the reclamation of what was once thought to be lost, forgotten, or overlooked. In this exhibition, the artist investigates the idea that what is "found" is often more than just a physical object or a moment in time; it is the reawakening of something deep within us, something that holds meaning, power, or beauty that was hidden in plain sight or lost to time. This work challenges the notion of permanence, suggesting that everything has the potential for reclamation, whether it’s a forgotten memory, a discarded object, or a part of our own identity.  

The works featured in "Found and Reclaimed" utilize metal sculpture to tell stories of rediscovery. These pieces examine how the act of reclaiming something—whether a personal narrative, a physical object, or an abstract concept—can give it new life, purpose, and significance. The artist presents "found" objects and ideas that were once discarded, reimagined, or altered, breathing new life into them and reflecting on the potential inherent in reinterpreting what has been overlooked.

Jerome China was born in 1961 in Richmond, Virginia. He received his early training as the first artist in residence at All Iron Works commercial welding and fabrication shop currently located in Hoboken, N.J. In addition, he studied with blacksmith Paul Januz at Gravity Line Forge. These residence experiences provided a balanced foundation in welding, blacksmithing, and metallurgy. He has lived in New York and Virginia and currently resides in Jersey City.

Hair We Are Again is hosting a signature event aimed at E.R.A.S.E. — Education, Resources, Affirmation, Support, and Empowerment — for all curly and coily hair textures. The event will spotlight the CROWN Act, legislation that seeks to end discrimination based on hair texture and styles, ensuring a future where everyone is free to embrace their natural hair without fear of bias.

Attendees will enjoy a day filled with local vendors, live entertainment, and powerful “hairspiration” stories from women, men, and trans individuals who have embraced their natural locks.

Join us for this transformative event and be part of a movement to celebrate and normalize diverse hair identities.

For more information, visit: CROWN Act.

Are you ready to invest in your graduate education but unsure how to navigate the financial side? Join us for the HESAA Financial Information Session and take the first step toward securing your future.

Discover everything you need to know about graduate student loans, repayment plans, and funding options tailored for your success. Experts from HESAA will guide you through the process and answer your questions to help make your graduate journey stress-free.

Why Attend?

 Don’t miss out — secure your spot today and make your dreams a reality!

Questions? Email gradadmissions@njcu.edu.

NJCU is partnering with All About Us Festival to bring a meaningful initiative to campus: the McCourty Twins Tackle Sickle Cell Blood Drive to support individuals affected by sickle cell disease.

Sickle cell disease disproportionately impacts our Black community and Black patients often face challenges in finding compatible blood donors. Blood donations from people of similar ethnic backgrounds are critical for managing this condition through transfusions.

NJCU and its TRiO Learning Community (TLC) Program will host the inaugural TRiO SSS Student Leadership Conference. Also attending will be TRiO students from Rowan College of South Jersey Cumberland, Passaic County Community College, Saint Peter's University and Seton Hall University.

TRiO/TLC is a federal student Support Services Program at NJCU, funded by the United States Department of Education and the university. This program is designed to provide support services to low-income, first-generation students and/or students with disabilities. The TRiO Learning Community (TLC) Program at NJCU is known nationally as a federal Student Support Services (SSS) program.

Please note, this event is only for members of the TLC program.

All events/announcements must be submitted no later than Wednesday at noon to be included in the weekly email newsletter that will be released on the following Monday.