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  • Trunk or Treat

    Monmouth University Athletics and The Office of Student Engagement will be hosting Trunk or Treat this year and we are looking for our Monmouth community to participate and bring the energy to this event!

    This event invites local community members to campus for a fun afternoon of trick or treating and Halloween fun!

  • NJ Run for the Fallen

    Please join the Student Veterans Association at the entrance of Norwood Ave & Kirby Ave (Lot11) for the 16th annual NJ Run for the Fallen. There is no running required to participate!

    The NJ Run for the Fallen has teams of military runners who embark on a 225+ mile journey starting in Cape May and finishing in Holmdel, to honor every NJ service member who died in support of the Global War on Terror.

    The family of Christopher Cosgrove, a Monmouth Alumni and US Marine Corps Veteran, will be present as military runners pass by to pay respect. We ask that you join us in celebrating the life of LCpl Cosgrove alongside his family.

  • Brute Force

    Born in 1940, Monmouth University alumnus Stephen Friedland performs under the name Brute Force. A lifelong singer-songwriter, Friedland began his musical journey a songwriter for Bright Tunes Productions at the behest of doo-wop group The Tokens, who had scored a hit with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” Friedland joined the band as their keyboard player. For Bright Tunes, Friedland composed the Chiffons’ 1965 hit “Nobody Knows What’s Goin’ On (in My Mind But Me).” He also composed hit songs for Del Shannon, Peggy March,  and The Cyrkle. 
     
    In 1968, The Beatles famously invited musicians around the world to submit their work for consideration for release by Apple Records. Friedland answered the call with his original composition “The King of Fuh,” which has emerged as one of the most notorious songs in annals of Apple Records history. Against all odds, John Lennon and George Harrison opted to release the song, which tells the tongue-in-cheek story about a monarch toiling in the land of Fuh. Under Harrison’s supervision, the song was overdubbed with a string arrangement composed by John Barham. Given the song’s irreverent nature, EMI (Apple’s parent company) refused to distribute the single, of which only 1,000 copies were pressed. In 2010, more than four decades after its original rejection by EMI, “The King of Fuh” was released by Apple Records on the Come and Get It compilation. Friedland is currently developing a play entitled Color Talk for production.
     

  • The Election We Didn’t Expect, with Patrick Murray

    Join Monmouth University Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray for a presentation highlighting how the presidential candidate switch has impacted the election outlook, the motivations of voters, and the issues that are important.

    Q&A to follow.

    Patrick Murray has three decades of experience in public opinion research and has been director of Monmouth University’s Polling Institute since 2005. The Monmouth University Poll is one of the nation’s leading independent survey research centers, recently rated one of the five best polling organizations in the country by FiveThirtyEight.com. Murray frequently appears as a commentator on national and regional TV and radio. During election years, he serves as an exit poll analyst for the National Election Pool. In his home state, Murray regularly appears on various “Power Lists” of influential people in New Jersey politics.

  • Hurricanes of Color

    Michael Frankel, the author of Hurricanes of Color and Monmouth University alumnus will be giving an artist’s talk and book-signing hosted by Prof. Ken Womack and Prof. Joe Rapolla.

    Hurricanes of Color 
    In 1964, fifteen-year-old Mike Frankel found himself among professional photojournalists covering a Beatles concert during the band’s first tour in the United States. A few years later, he was a regular photographer at the Fillmore East, a storied venue in classic rock. And in 1969, he was onstage at Woodstock, documenting one of the most important events in American music history.

    Featuring Frankel’s stunning photographs of nearly every major rock figure from the 1960s and ’70s―including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead―as well as many unpublished images of the Beatles, Hurricanes ofColor chronicles an extraordinary moment. Frankel, who was for a time a personal photographer for Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, developed an innovative style―one that layered images with multiple exposures to capture the spirit of the music of the era and the experience of listening to the bands live.

    A must-have for fans of classic rock, this is a spectacular and profound collection of photography that complements the music of the world’s biggest performers.

  • Hawks on the Road at Florida International University

    Join fellow Monmouth friends and family for a pregame tailgate in lot 10 at Pitbull Stadium on the campus of Florida International University. A buffet will be available to all registered guests along with a cash bar. The cost to attend is $30 per person ages 12 and older. Children 11 and under are free with an accompanying paid adult. The tailgate begins at 3:30pm and ends at 5:30pm. Kickoff is set for 6:00pm. $1 of the registration fee is a donation to the Athletic Director’s Excellence Fund.

    Tailgate registration does NOT include a ticket to the game. Monmouth will occupy the bench in front of sections 130-135.

  • Remembering 9/11

    Stop by to plant flags around the 9/11 Memorial.

  • HireNewYork Multi-University Alumni Career Fair Fall 2024

    The HireNewYork Alumni Career Fair is a hiring event designed for alumni, graduating seniors and graduate students who are looking for early-and mid-level career opportunities. It offers a special chance for job seekers to connect with employers from diverse fields and industries. Job seekers attend the fair for free, but it’s important to register in advance to secure participation.

  • The Eighth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference on Race

    Race and the Freedom to Learn

    Cosponsored by the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at UMass Boston

    Location: Monmouth University Campus

    The freedom to learn has been inextricably linked to race across time and space. From the era of enslavement in the Americas to book burning in Nazi Germany down to the present humans around the globe have demanded the freedom to learn as a fundamental human right. This right to learn is intrinsically linked to race, gender, sexuality, and class -the denial of which diminishes society while threatening democracy. Denying groups and individuals the right to learn impacts everyone in society and oftentimes involves the censoring of curriculum, arrest of educators, and book banning or book burning. The freedom to learn has been particularly denied to marginalized communities including people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

    In November 2024, the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Race will focus on “Race and the Freedom to Learn” and invites papers from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, education, gender studies, ethnic studies, sociology, and other disciplines that have grappled with this subject. We welcome individual papers or complete panels from scholars, educators, artists, and activists whose work is related to race, its intersections, and the freedom to learn in history, society, and culture. We also seek papers from international scholars and offer a few travel stipends to scholars traveling from abroad to attend the conference.

  • The Courage to Challenge Racial Injustice and Build Equity in Education: A Conversation with Ruby Bridges

    Social Justice Academy Professional Development Series Fall 2024 Series

    A Conversation with Ruby Bridges in recognition of the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

    Co-moderated by Vernon Smith, Ph.D., and Zaneta Rago-Craft, Ed.D.

    Co-sponsored with the Monmouth University Intercultural Center

    Ruby Bridges is a civil rights icon, activist, author, and speaker who at the age of 6 was the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in Louisiana. She was born in Mississippi in 1954, the same year the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision ordering the integration of public schools. Her family later moved to New Orleans, where on Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School, single-handedly initiating the desegregation of public education. Her walk to the front door of the school was immortalized in Norman Rockwell’s painting “The Problem We All Live With”, in Robert Coles’ book “The Story of Ruby Bridges”, and in the Disney movie “Ruby Bridges”.

    She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders to embrace and value the richness of diversity. Bridges is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NAACP Martin Luther King Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and honorary doctorate degrees from Connecticut College, College of New Rochelle, Columbia University Teachers College, and Tulane University. Bridges is also the author of “Through My Eyes”, “This Is Your Time”, “I Am Ruby Bridges”, and “Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts”, released in January 2024. In March 2024, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.