The College of New Jersey, NJ

The College of New Jersey is a public university in Ewing Township, New Jersey, United States. The College of New Jersey is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. Established in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School, TCNJ was the first normal school, or teaching college, in the state of New Jersey and the fifth in the United States. The College of New Jersey is home to the David Sarnoff Museum, formerly located at Princeton Junction. The collection detailing the life of NBC founder David Sarnoff is now located in Roscoe L. The short version is that The College of New Jersey carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now.

That is the local read on The College of New Jersey: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The College of New Jersey was originally located in Trenton proper and moved to its present location in adjacent Ewing Township during the early to mid-1930s. Since its inception, TCNJ has undergone several name changes, the most recent being the 1996 change from "Trenton State College" to its current name. Prior to this, then- Governor Rodman McCamley Price had actively promoted the notion of founding a training institute for New Jersey's teachers and helped to mobilize support among influential state leaders.