As the University deepens its commitment to academic outreach, strengthens its relationships with partner institutions, and expands pathways to a liberal arts-based college education, this program ensures that our work with two-year public institutions is coordinated institutionally.The program draws on and extends the McGraw Center’s commitment to creating reciprocal and collaborative opportunities for sustained mentorship, allowing Princeton faculty and staff and colleagues at community colleges to engage with and learn from one another. 2023-2024 Year One Report We are delighted to share the first annual report of Princeton University’s Program for Community College Engagement (PCCE), located in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University. Prison Teaching Initiative The Prison Teaching Initiative seeks to bridge Princeton University’s academic and service-driven missions by providing the highest-quality postsecondary education to incarcerated students in New Jersey; offering Princeton University graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff innovative, evidence-based pedagogy training and the chance to diversify their teaching portfolios through intensive classroom experience; and fostering a robust campus dialogue on mass incarceration and its relationship to systemic inequalities in access to education. Teaching Transfer Initiative The Teaching Transfer Initiative is an academic outreach pilot program led by the Office of the Provost and managed by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Designed to encourage community college students to explore and transfer to four-year institutions, the program invests in the community college sector by expanding Princeton’s teaching and advising capacity outward. Community College Teaching Fellowships The Princeton / Community College Teaching Program is a collaboration between the McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning and the Graduate School. This unique program enables you to teach courses at Mercer County Community College, Rowan College South Jersey, Camden County College, or Middlesex College. The Fellowship provides a valuable, mentored experience by a tenured community college faculty member, and helps you develop as a teacher, providing an opportunity to design and teach a course. Community College Faculty Program The Community College Faculty Program (CCFP), formerly the Mid-Career Fellowship Program, is an opportunity for New Jersey community college faculty members and administrators to undertake advanced study. The Community College Faculty Program allows selected faculty from New Jersey community colleges to: Enroll at a premier university to further cultivate their understanding of the subjects they teach, Consult with distinguished scholars in a variety of fields, and Become part of a unique academic community. PCCE News & Announcements New Jersey Council for the Humanities Community of Practice visits Princeton The New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) convened its summer Community of Practice meeting at Princeton to explore campus resources with an eye toward future collaborations. Community College faculty from Atlantic Cape Community College, County College of Morris, and Ocean County College, as well as the Executive Director, Director of… Community College Engagement Two- and Four-Year College Faculty Participate in Data Science Convening at NJ AI Hub On May 2, faculty from eight NJ community colleges and five NJ four-year colleges and universities, as well as representatives from the NJ Council of County Colleges, NJ Transfer, and the NJ Big Data Alliance, came together for an inaugural convening in the NJ AI Hub. During this convening, the assembled faculty learned about the Data Science… Community College Engagement Ocean County College Students Visit Princeton for a Career Pathways Day Business and Engineering students and Academic Advising staff from Ocean County College visited Princeton’s campus on April 28th for a Career Pathways day. Walida Ali, the Innovator Outreach and Development Manager at Princeton University, greeted students and gave a presentation on start-ups, innovation, and what to do with a good idea. She… Community College Engagement New Jersey community college educators convene at Princeton to share ideas, build partnerships for the humanities Humanities professors and administrators from all 18 public community colleges in New Jersey spent a full day on Princeton University’s campus April 11 for a conference focused on increasing the vitality of the humanities in the college classroom and deepening partnerships with Princeton. The event, the first in a series, was hosted… Community College Engagement Mercer’s Shape in Chemistry students visit the Princeton Center for Complex Materials Students from Dr. John Barr’s Shape in Chemistry course took a trip to the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), where they received a welcome and overview of materials science from Dr. Janine Nunes, the Center’s Education Outreach Director. Students then toured the Imaging and Analysis Center (IAC) at Princeton, where they observed… Community College Engagement TTI Students Visit NJIT As part of its mission to encourage NJ community college students to explore various transfer options, the Teaching Transfer Initiative (TTI) arranges admissions trips to select colleges in New Jersey. On March 28th, TTI students from both Mercer County Community College and Rowan College of South Jersey visited the New Jersey Institute… Community College Engagement Teaching Transfer Initiative EGR 150 Visit Campus Students from Rowan College of South Jersey participating in the Teaching Transfer Initiative Engineering 150 class visited Princeton to learn more about different types of engineering. First there was a tour of the cleanroom, which was led by Dan Woodie, the director of the cleanroom. The cleanroom is a special lab where there are… Community College Engagement Mercer County Community College Honors Program Students Visit Campus Students in Mercer County Community College’s Honors program visited Princeton’s campus to take part in a workshop in Special Collections and to visit the Roberto Lugo exhibit “Orange and Black” in Bainbridge House. Guided by a Special Collections librarian and working with the F. Scott Fitzgerald archive, students examined diaries,… Community College Engagement Rowan College of South Jersey Medical Spanish Students Help the Local Community with Kidney Screenings Students of SPA 205 Medical Spanish collaborated with the university group KDSAP last Sunday at a free clinic focused on kidney health screening and education. The clinic took place at the Catholic church St. Paul after the mass in Spanish. Their language skills played a crucial role in assisting Spanish-speaking patients, helping… Community College Engagement Rowan College South Jersey Creative Writing Program Visit to Special Collections and an Author Reading Student writers and faculty advisers celebrating the publication of Rowan College of South Jersey’s literary magazine visited Firestone Library’s Special Collections to examine the creative process of writing and revising. Guided by a Special Collections librarian, students used the F. Scott Fitzgerald archives to explore the process… Community College Engagement Contact Us Name First Name Last Name Email Address Comments/Questions Leave this field blank
