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Archived Achievements: January 2007

Ramapo College of New Jersey was listed in the February 2007 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine as among the "100 Best Values in Public Colleges."  The ranking process places an emphasis on strong academics, as well as great value, with academic quality carrying more weight than cost.  Kiplinger’s looked at more than 500 public four-year colleges and universities in the country, using measures including the percentage of freshmen scoring 600 or higher on the verbal and math components of the SAT, student/faculty ratio and graduation rates.  This is the second year in a row that Ramapo College received the designation. 

The Anisfield School of Business’s application for AACSB accreditation candidacy, the first step in the process, has been accepted.  Carl Gooding, a professor at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, has been assigned Ramapo’s mentor for the pre-accreditation phase of the project.  Gooding has served as dean of the business school at other institutions.  In addition, he has served on the AACSB board and has held a number of committee responsibilities with the association.

Ramapo College received the 2007 Silver Accolade Award for News Website from the Council for Advancement and Support Education (CASE).

SYDNEY JENKINS (CA) notes that the College art galleries are mentioned as one of the leading college art institutions in the region in the opening catalogue for the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College.

LINDA DIAZ (Residence Life) has been elected vice president (president-elect) of the Middle Atlantic Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. This organization offers a variety of staff development seminars, workshops and conferences for professional staff through the Middle Atlantic region.

GINA MAYER-COSTA (Environmental Health and Safety) was elected treasurer of the New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee of the Department of Labor.  She also is president-elect of the College Health and Environmental Safety Society (CHESS). 

JILLIAN TODD WEISS (SSHS) was quoted as a workplace diversity expert in an Associated Press report, "Schools adjust to transgender teachers" that was carried by newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. 
 

PAUL ANDRUS (Andruskiewicz), a 1980 graduate, is a full professor of art at the
University of Advancing Technologies in Tempe, Arizona.  He has been invited to participate in the 2007 Florence Biennial in Florence, Italy, as one of only two individuals selected from each participating country.  

The Ramapo College-based band Hsu-nami is making waves on the New Jersey and New York circuit with its fusion rock, featuring JACK HSU on the erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument that sounds like a violin but has only two strings.  Other band members include BRENT BERGHOLM as lead guitarist, DERRIL SELLERS on bass, ADAM TOTH on keyboard/synthesizer, VINNY BELCASTRO on guitar and JOHN MANNA on drums.  The band has played at the Mexicali Blues Cafe in Teaneck, the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New York City's Lion's Den and CBGB, before it closed. It has also been building momentum on the college circuit, playing to crowds at Rutgers, Columbia and Ramapo.

ARYAM MODESTO has been accepted to UMDNJ Dental School and the University of Pennsylvania Dental School.  She has been awarded a scholarship of approximately  $100,000.  

ANNE NEUMANN, an international co-op student, is working for the NGO Global Alliance for Women's Health.  Neumann attended Ramapo under the exchange agreement with the University of Applied Sciences at Dresden.

LAUREN CULLEN SMITH, an art history student, will participate in an internship at the Museum of Modern Art this spring.