Janice Jackson:  

Life BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE FOR JANICE HARRIS JACKSON Janice Harris Jackson graduated from East Orange High School (EOHS) in June 1965. She was Vice President of the Class and she remembers fondly many performances with “Buckskin and Brush” Drama Club and singing with the choruses. Janice was the first person to win for EOHS the New Jersey Contest in the Reading of Poetry at Rutgers – Newark (the contest is now held at Kean University) She was one of the EOHS Art Majors. After graduation she enrolled at Montclair State University where she received a B.A. degree in Fine Arts Education and a Master of Arts degree in Speech, Theater and Communication. Jan Jackson began her career as an art teacher in the Newark Public Schools. She went to Kean University (then Newark State College) as a recruiter for minority students in the Office of Admissions. Janice worked at Kean University for 33 years before her recent early retirement from her position as the Director of the Office of University/School Collaborations in the College of Education. She continues to teach at Kean University as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Communication. Janice Harris Jackson is a Subscribing Diamond Life Member of the Newark Branch NAACP and a Subscribing Silver Life Member of the New Brunswick Area NAACP. Janice Harris Jackson is President Emeritus of the New Jersey Association of Black Educators (NJABE), she is one of the founding members and a Past President of the Concerned Black Personnel of Kean University (CBP). She is the former State Education Chair for the New Jersey State NAACP. Janice chaired the successful Endowment Campaign for Kean University’s Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center -- the University’s first academic facility named for an African American. She served on the External Advisory Committee for the Africana Studies Program at Kean University. Janice is a Life Member in the North Jersey Unit of the National As...Expand for more