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    1. Awards & Accolades

      Montclair's Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Earns National Award

      Montclair State University’s Delta Chi Chapter of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society has been named an “Honor Chapter” for its outstanding activities in 2025-26, an award that was bestowed to only 12 chapters nationwide.

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    2. Notices & Announcements

      Emilia D’Albero ’15 Takes on the International World of Cheese Mongering – and Takes Home the Gold

      The amazing success of Emilia D’Albero ’15 is proof that a Montclair education can take you wherever you want to go. In D’Albero’s case, that means navigating the highly competitive world of cheese mongering – and going for the win!

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    3. Featured News

      Out of the Classroom and Onto the Road

      Recapping Native American and Indigenous Studies Summer Trips and Fieldwork

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    4. Student Success Stories

      Thirteen Students Return from Montclair in Munich and Berlin 2026

      A group of thirteen Montclair students and their instructor, Thomas Herold, just returned from Germany, where they spent twelve days in Munich, Nuremberg, and Berlin, visiting memorials, museums, and historical sites dealing with Germany’s Nazi past and contemporary German post-Holocaust society.

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    5. Student Success Stories

      Goethe-Institut Representatives Visit Montclair’s SPARK for German Teaching Lab

      For the first time since the establishment of Montclair’s SPARK for German Teaching Lab, guests from the New York City Goethe-Institut paid the lab a visit, observing the 12 Montclair students and their faculty mentor Pascale LaFountain as the group facilitated an all-German performance of “Die Wichtelmänner,” or “The Shoemaker and His Elves,” a classic German fairy tale first featured in the 1812 Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm.

      A group of students pose for a group photo holding German, Swiss, and Austrian flags
    6. In the Media

      Quality of Life, Security, and Access to Higher Education: City of Graz Interviews Montclair Exchange Students

      For 76 years, Montclair and the city of Graz, Austria have been sister cities, sharing this diplomatic, academic, and cultural partnership that aims to build bridges and prevent the destructive divisions that plagued many international relationships during World War II.

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    7. Event Highlights

      German Club Shares Gummy Bears, Flags, and Motivational Messages at Montclair’s World’s Fair Day

      For the second year in a row, Montclair’s lively German Club hosted a table at Montclair’s annual World’s Fair Day, a festival celebrating the cultural diversity that defines Montclair’s campus population.

      Five college students pose in front of a decorated booth for the German Club
    8. Event Highlights

      Watchung Hills Regional High School Students Visit Montclair, Italian-Style

      Continuing a years-old outreach tradition, the Italian Program hosted two Italian high school classes from Watchung Hills Regional High School.

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    9. Featured News

      Learning Beyond the Classroom: Students Engage with Indigenous Communities in Wisconsin

      Last summer, a group of Montclair State University students and faculty traveled to Wisconsin to step beyond the classroom and into spaces where Indigenous knowledge is not only studied, but lived. 

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    10. Student Success Stories

      Italian MAT Student Wins Prestigious NECTFL and NOIAW Awards

      February 27, 2026 – Angela Sabetta, Montclair State University’s first student in the Master’s Program for the Teaching of Italian, was awarded the prestigious Future Language Educator Award funded by Vista Higher Education offered by the Northeast Conference for Teachers, for Languages, for Cultures at the NECTFL conference on February 27 th in New York.

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