Teachers Village growing in Newark

Addressing a gathering at Gateway U’s new student center in the Teacher’s Village mixed-use development in Newark, Deja Johnson said she was a senior at Seton Hall University in the Fall of 2017 when her father died, triggering financial and other hardships that kept her from finishing her undergraduate degree in social work.

“Even though I was one semester from graduating, I could not get my degree,” said Johnson, now 26, who then had to put aside plans that included a master’s degree and founding her own childcare center.

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