Welcome to Edition 2 of This Week at NJCU for January 17, 2022. This once-weekly Monday publication will inform the university community about all events happening each week over the next eight days on campus. To submit your event for the January 24, 2022 edition, please use the form at the bottom of this communication. All listed times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).
SPOTLIGHT EVENT
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SPECIAL EVENT
The 33rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Featuring Keynote Speaker Ilyasah Shabazz
Wednesday, January 19 | 10-11:15 a.m.
Virtual | School of Business, Skyline Room
The Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration features Keynote Speaker Ilyasah Shabazz, Professor, Author, and Daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz, '71 NJCU alum.
Ilyasah Shabazz is an award-winning author, educator and producer. She has authored five historical novels and has served as project advisor for the PBS award-winning documentary film, Prince Among Slaves. She is Co-Chairperson of the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center. In her work to preserve the legacy of her parents, she has dedicated herself to institution building and intergenerational leadership development with the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Ms. Shabazz is a member of the Soar Higher Cabinet Committee for New Paltz College; a member of the Advisory Council for the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition; a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; and she serves as a Trustee for the Harlem Symphony Orchestra.
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University closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Graduate Virtual Office Hours
Wednesdays | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Zoom
Are you interested in getting started on a graduate degree or certificate in business? The NJCU School of Business has virtual office hours to chat with current and prospective graduate students every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. via Zoom. Join us to ask questions related to curriculum, classroom hours, course modality, program-specific details, career opportunities, and more!
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NJCU @ FORT MONMOUTH
Monmouth Regional Chamber Of Commerce Perkolator East BreakfastJan. 21 | 8-9:15 a.m.
In-person | NJCU @ Fort Monmouth, Squier Hall, 283 Sherrill Avenue, Oceanport, N.J.
Speaker: Tom Hayes, Director of Customer & Community Relations at New Jersey Natural Gas
Topic: "Our Community Involvement & Programs"
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ATHLETICS
Men’s Wrestling Hosts NJCU QUAD
Jan. 22 | 4 p.m.
In-person | John J. Moore Athletics and Fitness Center
The NJCU Men’s Wrestling team will return to the John J. Moore Athletic Center (JMAC) for the first time in the new year on Saturday, January 22, for the “NJCU Quad.''
Come watch senior captain Kyle Hillermeier, junior captain Matthew Armamento and the rest of the Gothic Knight squad take on the Giants of Keystone College and the Red Hawks of Montclair State University. The first match is set for 4 p.m.
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 | Images (from left to right): Red Sister Reflecting, 2020, digital collage on canvas, 26 x 20 inches, Orange Leaves Sister, 2020, digital collage on canvas, 17 x 25.5 inches, Fight the Power Sister, 2020, digital collage on canvas, 14.5 x 19 inches
All artwork © 2020 Antoinette Ellis-Williams
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CENTER FOR THE ARTS
BURN: Origins & Resistance by
Antoinette Ellis-Williams
January 31 – March 3Artist Talk: February 9, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
In-person and online (details to be announced) | Visual Arts Gallery
The BURN Project by Dr. Antoinette Ellis-Williams (Professor, Women & Gender Studies) is a multi-disciplinary project which rethinks and explores the many ways black women experience “Burn” and simultaneously their unique agency to set things on “Fiya” (aka fire) and heal. All viewers are invited to tap into an individual memory of pain and recovery through a personal engagement with the work.
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Submit Your Event to be Included in This Week at NJCU
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.
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