Notable Faculty and Staff
- Don Bragg, gold medalist at the 1960 Olympics for pole vaulting
- Professor Stephen Dunn received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection of poems, Different Hours
- College President Vera King Farris spoke at the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust in 1999, hosted by the Prime Minister of Sweden and attended by 44 national heads of state.
- Dr. Amy Hadley, an Associate Professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology, was selected as the New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s 2011 recipient of its Distinguished Professional Service Award.
- Larry James (1947–2008), gold medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, who was athletic director at the college for 28 years. In 2007, the college's track and soccer facility was named "G. Larry James Stadium".
- Dr. Janice Joseph, Professor of Criminal Justice, serves on the Executive Board of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council (ISPAC) of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program, a United Nations institute in Milan, Italy.
- Professor William C. Lubenow FRHistS, author and historian, President North American Conference on British Studies
- Dr. Carol Rittner, RSM, a Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies who co-produced the Academy Award-nominated film "The Courage to Care".
- Dr. Suryakumar Shah, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, received an invitation from the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) to join its Academy of Research, the group’s highest scholarly honor, in February 2011.
- Professor Wendel A. White was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2003 for his exceptional creativity in photography.
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