Tuesday, June 24, 2025
After President Donald Trump’s announcement of deportations taking place in the U.S., college students are facing their visas being revoked by their own schools. With little notice to the schools, the government has been terminating students’ legal residency status. Last month, almost 300 international students in 29 states had their […]
Ramapo welcomed everyone to Friends Hall on Monday, to celebrate the achievements of select students for 13th annual Scholars’ Day. Scholars’ Day is celebrated each year towards the end of the spring semester, as an opportunity to honor and celebrate students’ achievements. The event showcases students’ work from the 2024-25 […]
The First-Generation Student Center hosted a welcome-back event, bringing students, faculty and staff together for an afternoon of connection and creativity. Attendees enjoyed empanadas and engaged in arts and crafts, including coloring pages, while reconnecting after the break. “It was a nice event. The empanadas were super good! I had […]
The Women’s Center and LGBTQ+ Services, Health Promotion in the Center for Health and Counseling Services and the Office of Violence Prevention are teaming up to provide Ramapo students with the Healthy Love Party (HLP) program. The program offers students services to educate themselves on sexually transmitted infections (STIs), safer […]
A 2021 study published in the International Dialogues on Education found that 60% of college students experience at least one loss during their academic career. Addressing academic obligations on top of basic needs can become overwhelming. “The psychological response to grief is profound enough to have an impact on someone’s […]
Has the phrase, “you’ll sleep when you’re dead” ever come to mind when you stay up through the night trying to finish all of your assignments? It certainly does whenever I am, on top of working for The Ramapo News and trying to jumpstart the Literature Club. However, my situation […]
America is no stranger to gun violence. With schools practicing lockdown drills, discussions of teachers carrying guns and more security roaming the halls, this fear is always on our minds. But why do we put the responsibility of protection on the schools rather than the source of the guns? This […]
Photo courtesy of Celine Panis-Pardo. Last week we took a look into the minor programs at Ramapo and how enrollment varies across disciplines. Having the institutional perspective, we’re now looking to see how students navigate adding additional disciplines or focuses to their degree. A student’s likelihood of taking a […]
Photo courtesy of Andrea Piacquadio, Pexels. Spring break is designed for students — especially college students — to get a break from the stress of their everyday lives. They theoretically get a week of no classes, assignments, tests or papers. Unfortunately this spring break will be filled with more work than […]
Photo courtesy of Daniel Spiess, Flickr. No matter what, college acts as the stepping stone for teenagers to become young adults, discover themselves, meet new people and learn new things that may benefit them in their adult and professional futures. Because of the pandemic, students are forced into the purgatory […]
