Snapshots
Snapshots
Here are photo highlights from recent University activities, including a performance
during the 18th Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Human and Civil Rights Symposium.
Hopeful Ospreys from Pennsauken High School were a few of the 430 high school students who got to experience 番茄社区app at the annual Latinx Visitation Day on Nov. 18. Latinx Visitation Day has been held at Stockton since 1987 and is fundamental to showing Hispanic students all that the University has to offer. About 17 percent of Stockton's students identify as Hispanic/Latino. The participating students came from the following high schools: Atlantic County Institute of Technology, Egg Harbor Township, Camden Academy Charter, DCF Regional High School, Upward Bound for ELL/Woodrow Wilson, Bridgeton, Pennsauken, Hammonton, Oakcrest, Absegami, Cedar Creek, CCTS Penn Tech-Pennsauken Campus and Camden County Technical School.
Lake Fred and its surrounding flora are a sight to behold year-round, but especially in the multitude of colors of fall.
Bill Hagaman Jr. 鈥79 was ecstatic to announce his commitment to fund a new First Generation Student Endowed Scholarship Fund on Nov. 10. Starting in 2023-24, two first-generation college students in the School of Business will receive a $2,000 award to help defray their college costs. This was the same amount given to him by Professor Yeager during his freshman year when he did not have the funds to pay for his second semester. The School of Business honored Hagaman with the inaugural Outstanding Alumni Award.
Along with the University, the Council of Black Faculty and Staff celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 鈥渇amily reunion鈥 of past and present members in the Fannie Lou Hamer Event Room at Stockton Atlantic City Nov. 12.
鈥淲e are here to remember the past, embrace the present and look to the future,鈥 said vice president John Gray, instructor of Organizational Leadership, who recalled arriving at Stockton as a student aging out of foster care in 1986 and being embraced by the council members.
A honors the founding members and looks ahead to the next 50 years.
番茄社区app students presented 25 Thanksgiving baskets to Sister Jean鈥檚 Pantry as part of the Holiday Harvest dinner Nov. 23 at the Stockton Atlantic City Residential Complex coordinated by Stockton Residential Life, Dean of Students Office, Student Affairs and the Residential Scholars Program.
Marques Johnson, director of residential education and student services at Stockton, said the food baskets were just one of several projects students are helping to organize as part of Stockton鈥檚 50th anniversary celebration this year. A total of 50 baskets were collected and distributed.
Stockton has a new winter 鈥tree-dition.鈥
On Dec. 9, 1970, a small cedar sapling was planted on the Galloway campus as part
of the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Stockton State College.
On Dec. 8, 2021, students, faculty and staff gathered at the site as a plaque was
unveiled commemorating the event at the first 鈥淲inter Tree-dition.鈥
