3 Chatham Students Graduate TCNJ

Eight students at The College of New Jersey from Chatham earned a spot on the 2012 spring semester Dean's List:

• Chelsea Siegel, a junior Graphic Design major
• Aaron Harmaty, a sophomore History major
• Claire Huynh, a sophomore History major
• Christine Barna, a senior Women's and Gender Studies major
• Rebeca Salinardi, a senior Early Childhood major
• John O'Leary, a sophomore Pre-Biomedical Engineering major
• Brian Dougherty, a senior Health and Exercise Science major
• Michael Wang, a senior Biology major

To make the Dean's List, a student must carry 12 or more credits that semester and have a 3.5 grade point average or above.

Three of the students who made the Dean's List—Barna, Dougherty and Wang—were among the 1,726 students who graduated from The College of New Jersey in the commencement ceremony held Friday, May 11.

The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a selective institution that has earned national recognition for its commitment to excellence. Founded in 1855, the college is consistently acknowledged as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the nation.

TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the 75 "Most Competitive" schools in the nation by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges and is rated the No. 1 public institution in the northern region of the country by U.S. News & World Report. TCNJ was named the one of the nation's 50 "Best Value" public colleges by the Princeton Review and USA Today in 2010 and, in 2006, was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter-an honor shared by less than 10 percent of colleges and universities nationally.