Tag: William Paterson University

Latinx

Moving Beyond Hispanic Enrolling While Becoming Hispanic Serving at William Paterson University

The shift in our student population revealed structural and pedagogical concerns that led to the development of several task forces aimed at addressing and understanding how to better serve our increasingly diverse student population. Among them was the HSI task force, who among others, received charges by our University President, Richard Helldobler, asking us to recommend ways and strategies that our higher education institution could move beyond being a Hispanic enrolling institution towards becoming a Hispanic Serving one.

February 27, 2021

News Roundup

Adjunct New Jersey Faculty Receive Wage Increase, Full-Time Professors Still in Negotiations

Following a string of statewide rallies last week , around 5,000 unionized adjunct faculty members from nine New Jersey public colleges will receive wage increases, according to NorthJersey.com. The new four-year contract would give adjunct faculty a $230 raise per credit. The rate would total $1,705 per credit for faculty working at an institution for […]

November 26, 2019

Campus Climate

Report: Increased Percentage of Male Students in NJ Colleges

The proportion of men attending colleges and universities in and around New Jersey is vastly increasing – something the state hasn’t seen in decades. The percentage of male students in the state rose at 55 of the more well-known colleges in New Jersey from 2006-2016 and decreased at 30 institutions, according to federal education data. […]

August 27, 2018

Leadership & Policy

William Paterson University President to Retire

WAYNE, N.J. — William Paterson University’s president is retiring. Kathleen Waldron announced on Tuesday she’ll step down in June, at the end of the 2017-18 academic year. She became the New Jersey school’s seventh president in 2010. Waldron says she’ll turn 70 in September 2018 and she hopes the advances she’s made will have a […]

August 22, 2017

Students

Suit: William Paterson University’s Botched Rape Inquiry Led to Student Suicide

PATERSON, N.J. ― A college student killed herself because the university she attended didn’t properly investigate her rape report, her mother said in a lawsuit. William Paterson University officials knew about, but didn’t address, sexual violence against students, creating a climate in which such misconduct was tolerated, Marquesa Jackson-Locklear alleged. School officials did not immediately […]

September 13, 2016