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WINTER 2021
Clockwise from top left:
Director of Instructional Design Judi Cook,
with members of the faculty hotline:
Sandy Gibson, Yifeng Hu, Gary Fienberg,
and Felicia Steele.
Not all heroes scale walls,
bend steel, or fly. And
that's especially true on a
college campus when staff
are called to respond to
a pandemic. From moving
students off campus, to
delivering books to faculty,
to deep cleaning our learning
spaces, TCNJ's essential
workers courageously
stepped up. Here's a
heartfelt Hi-five and 12 pages
of gratitude to some of the
people and departments that
kept our community safe and
our buildings functioning
this past year.
Faculty mentors,
assemble!
JUDI COOK
Instructional design
Superpower: Flipping the college
to remote learning
How she did it: Created the Faculty
Helping Faculty hotline so that every
professor could call on a colleague
to help answer questions about the
online modules for their classes.
Tour de force: Went from assisting
20 faculty per semester with online
courses prior to the pandemic to
600 — a 3,000% increase.
These unsung heroes of the pandemic
represent the best of TCNJ.
Words David Pavlak and Kara Pothier
Pictures Bill Cardoni
