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22 STUDENT AFFAIRS LEARNING TO LEAD Great colleges produce exceptional leaders across academic disciplines. Through its Office of Leadership, TCNJ is doing just that. A diverse group of 59 students participated in this year's LeaderShape program, an intensive bootcamp for burgeoning student leaders that has garnered national acclaim. This year's program, intended to develop visionary changemakers within the campus community, centered on education, diversity, community relations, healthcare, and poverty. Just 50 percent of applicants were selected for this year's Lions Leadership Institute, a semester-long co-curricular program offered to freshmen and sophomores. Among the hands-on initiatives they took the lead on were enhancing the TCNJ app, creating a campuswide awareness campaign around recycling and generating student feedback to improve course structure. The Office of Leadership also introduced new programming this year, collaborating with the School of Education, Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research, and the Department of Residential Education to unveil "TCNJ Changemakers," a retreat for a 15-member group of student leaders focused on raising awareness around a range of social justice initiatives. Team members will apply what they learned during the retreat in the upcoming academic year, offering workshops for student organizations to help them develop comprehensive social justice programming. EXTRA! EXTRA! The Signal, TCNJ's student newspaper, once again earned high praise at the annual New Jersey Collegiate Press Awards. Overall, the paper took third in the General Excellence category. Sydney Shaw '17, Tom Ballard '19 and Kimberly Ilkowski '17 also garnered individual acclaim for critical writing in arts and entertainment, column and opinion writing, and photography. A SAFER CAMPUS TCNJ reaffirmed its commitment to campus safety and transparency this year through a number of key initiatives. Point Person In November, Jordan Draper was hired to serve as Title IX Coordinator, charged with amplifying TCNJ's longstanding track record of responsiveness to incidences of gender discrimination and sexual violence. Leading Men Student Affairs and the Department of Counselor Education introduced the Men's Leadership Group. Open to all students, faculty, and staff identifying as male, the Men's Leadership Group offers a forum to discuss topics related to identity development as individuals, masculinity in society and on college campuses, and the role men can play as leaders in the prevention of power-based personal violence. Revamped Policies The Board of Trustees authorized sweeping Title IX policy revisions in July, a proactive initiative intended to bring the college's standards for consent and incident investigation into conformance with the latest recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education. 1 Lifesaver (via bone marrow transplant) By the Numbers 7 NJAC titles 12 Teams qualifying for NCAA tournaments