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What the Archive Forgets: Montclair Students Visit the Morgan Library
“A friend who never changes” was the bookplate motto of Belle da Costa Greene, the legendary New York librarian who built the Morgan Library’s collections and shaped its identity as an institution for over four decades. It is a motto that says everything about Greene’s devotion to books, and nothing about the secret she kept for a lifetime.
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Montclair welcomes students and faculty from Austria to learn about human trafficking
Students and faculty from the University of Graz Law School in Austria visited Montclair State University for the third year in a row from October 27th-30th, as part of a Criminal and Public Law Perspectives class on Transnational Crime and Justice – Human Trafficking.
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Student Success Stories
Uncovering the Written Hand: Emily Walker Completes McNeil Paleography Workshop
English undergraduate student Emily Walker recently completed The Lost World of Handwriting: A Workshop in English Paleography, 1500–1850, offered through the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS).
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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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Student Success Stories
A Feminist God: Madelynn McDevitt Selected for McNeil Undergraduate Research Workshop
English undergraduate student Madelynn McDevitt recently presented her research on the redefinition of women’s roles in Shaker music at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS) Consortium Undergraduate Research Workshop, hosted at the University of Pennsylvania.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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