Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

NJIT is a Top 50 Best Value College According to The Princeton Review

Tuesday, April 20, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review, an honor held since 2018. NJIT ranked No. 39 as a Best Value College and No. 10 for Best Career Placement among public colleges and universities. The Princeton Review profiles NJIT in the recently published 2021 edition of its annual guide, The Best Value Colleges. In order to make the list, institutions needed to demonstrate a stellar academic program and affordability, and offer strong...

For NJIT's Sam Carlos, Two Majors Weren't Enough, So He Made it Three

Friday, April 16, 2021
New students often matriculate at NJIT with a handful of college credits, declaring themselves double majors or participating in joint bachelors-masters programs, but Metuchen's Samuel Carlos is raising the bar, having arrived in 2018 with an astonishing 103 college credits and an associate's degree earned in high school, promptly declaring a double major and then adding a third in 2019 because he didn't want to graduate too soon. By doing so, Carlos became the first documented Highlander triple-major in the last 38 years since the Banner registration system began, and probably the...

Equal Pay Day@NJIT: Leaders Offer 4 Tips on How Women Can Establish Themselves at Work

Monday, April 5, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology welcomed two strong leaders who shared key advice on how women can establish themselves at work. The leaders, Catherine Wilson, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Newark, and Judith Sheft, executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, led an online discussion during Equal Pay Day that was equal parts instructive, inspiring and frank. The event, presented by NJIT’s Murray Center for Women in Technology and sponsored by Career Development Services and the Committee on Women’s Leadership, was the first in...

NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts Attracts Record Freshman Applicants

Monday, March 22, 2021
All-time highs in freshman applicants are being reported this year at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA), according to the university’s latest admissions report for fall 2021. NJIT’s Office of Admissions says CSLA’s freshman applicants this year (approximately 2,500) have risen more than 15% from 2020 and 25% compared to pre-pandemic totals in 2019 (1,850). “The increase in freshman applicants and interest in the many degree programs offered by the College of Science and Liberal Arts are likely due to a number of factors, chief among them a confluence of circumstances...

NJIT Alum Ryan Brown Kicks Off Super Bowl LV with the CBS Sports Team

Thursday, March 4, 2021
If you were one of the 96.4 million viewers of this year’s Super Bowl LV, chances are you were watching the work of NJIT alum Ryan Brown flash across your TV screen all night without realizing it. Since leaving NJIT with a Communications and Media B.A. degree, Brown ’15 has moved into the position of graphics operator with CBS Sports, heading up the production crew responsible for the flurry of slick fonts, statistics and other graphical information that fans see accompanying nationally televised sporting events from the NFL, NCAA and more.  That includes two Super Bowl...

NJIT Theater Debuts Zoom-Based Reboot of 15th Century Play 'Everyman'

Wednesday, March 3, 2021
The Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Program is taking the classic late-medieval period morality play, Everyman, into the digital age.  The cast and crew have recently debuted their spin on the original for online streamers — titled Every_01: A Morality Play — where audiences follow the protagonist as they contemplate all the good and bad deeds they’ve done throughout their life while visiting with personifications of ideas like Death, Good Deeds, Knowledge and Friendship. Originally written at a time when much of Europe was recovering from plague, RU-NJIT...

Strategy for Instruction: NJIT Responds to the Pandemic in Forward-Thinking Fashion

Thursday, February 18, 2021
Last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began its inexorable march across the country, NJIT, along with higher education institutions nationwide, faced an unprecedented challenge: how to best move to fully remote instruction, both quickly and safely. Immediately, the university drew upon its technological resources and know-how to provide a virtual learning experience for its more than 11,000 students while completing the spring 2020 semester as scheduled. Within a span of two weeks, the Digital Learning and Technology Support team at NJIT helped prepare faculty to teach online effectively and...

NJIT's Maurie Cohen Publishes New, Timely Guide to Sustainability

Thursday, February 4, 2021
Encompassing everything from electric cars, meatless diets and the compostable cups we find at Starbucks, to big ideas of economic and social equality, the catch-all buzzword “sustainability” has taken on a life of its own over the past few decades — but what does it mean today? Maurie Cohen, sustainability studies professor and chair of NJIT’s Department of Humanities, has recently distilled his more than 20 years of expertise in the field and put forth a new, accessible introductory guide to the ever-broadening topic. Cohen’s eighth book, Sustainability,...

New Cyberpsychology Seminar Series to Cover Online Conspiracy Theories, Misinformation and More

Monday, February 1, 2021
What psychological factors drive the popularity of conspiracy theories, and what are the psychological consequences of adopting these theories? What is the role of personality traits in people’s real-life spending behavior online? Is clinical VR ready for primetime in the world of mental healthcare?   NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced that its Spring Cyberpsychology Seminar Series will begin this month, including a diverse list of experts from around the nation, as well as NJIT faculty from the university’s Cyberpsychology Program, who will discuss...

NJIT String Ensemble's Winter Performance Celebrates Music Inspired From Around the World

Friday, January 22, 2021
Students and faculty of NJIT’s String Ensemble have released a digital production of their annual Winter Concert Series performance celebrating internationally-inspired music and diversity within the university community.  The performance, directed by NJIT music instructor Christine Sweet and arranged by New Jersey Symphony Orchestra lead violinist Brennan Sweet, features two concertos capturing the sights and sounds of India and Japan — Atishbaji (Fireworks) by Doug Spata, a Bollywood-style piece celebrating India's Diwali festival, and ...

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