Jenna Vesey Navigating college, keeping up with school work and staying active on campus are not simple tasks. Senior Jenna Vesey, however, makes it look easy. As a bioinformatics major with a minor in neuroscience, she has a lot under her belt here at Ramapo but continues to spread positivity […]
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SGA announces 2024-25 election results
Elections for the Student Government Association (SGA)’s leadership in the upcoming 2024-25 school year have officially been finalized. SGA made the elections available to students through unique surveys sent to their email addresses from April 15-18. Results were posted on Friday, April 19. The positions up for election were president […]
Senior spotlights: Seniors reflect on time at Ramapo
Rojja Kharel For many seniors, their first and second years of college fit the conventional college experience, but for senior Rojja Kharel, her experience looked different. Kharel, a student from Nepal, is an international studies major with a minor in international business and entrepreneurship. Kharel spent her first year with […]
Upcoming SGA elections feature familiar faces
It’s almost Student Government Association (SGA) election time again for Ramapo students with voting starting in less than a week. Eighteen candidates are running for 2024-25 in a variety of positions, with two teams campaigning for the presidency and vice presidency. Victor Oluwagbemi & Oliver Mejia Junior Victor Oluwagbemi […]
CCEC gives students alternate spring break experiences
Since 1995, Ramapo students have been offered an opportunity to do an alternative break over winter and spring breaks. During the 2024 spring break, students were once again offered this opportunity. The previous Assistant Director of Civic Engagement Karen Booth started the program in the fall of 1995. Booth founded […]
Faculty reflect on 50 years at Ramapo
When professor Ira Spar saw an advertisement in the New York Times in the spring of 1973 for an ancient historian position at an unnamed college, he decided to take a chance and apply. With his last-minute oversized wool suit jacket, he flew to Mahwah for the interview and was […]
NEH grant expands horizons for Ramapo’s digital humanities programs
Dr. Sarah Koenig, assistant professor of American studies, was recently awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a grant that will help grow Ramapo’s digital humanities program. The grant is approximately $150,000, the largest awarded in the state of New Jersey. The money will be used to train and […]
First-Generation Student Center hosts events promoting mental health
Newly recognized this year, Ramapo’s First-Generation Student Center has partnered with the First-Generation Counselor & Outreach Specialist in the Center for Counseling Services to support first-generation students during their academic journey. The partnership, while not new, is uncovering a new set of events to recognize first-gen students and their battles […]
CCEC welcomes Allie Shapiro to Ramapo
Allie Shapiro is the newest member of the Center for Community Engagement (CCEC) after starting early this past December as the Coordinator for Community Engagement. CCEC is an office at Ramapo College that aims to combine awareness education and action to help students become civically engaged and “architects and agents […]
Photo feature: Ramapo students take the snow day to play
The weatherman called for a snowy nor’easter on Tuesday, and Mother Nature did not disappoint. By noon, Ramapo’s campus was blanketed in up to eight inches of white powder, with nearly all offices shut down and classes moved online. Students took this as an opportunity to bundle up and adventure […]
