Hammonton Instructional Site
Stockton鈥檚 Board of Trustees and then President Saatkamp officially named the historic, renovated building at 30 Front Street in Hammonton as Kramer Hall in a ceremony on December 12, 2012. The decision to do so recognized Charles and Lynne Kramer鈥檚 longstanding support of the University as well as a new Leadership Gift. The instructional site opened to the campus community and the public the following spring with one 24-seat computer lab, two 30-seat multipurpose rooms, 16 seminar rooms and three 43-seat classrooms.
Kramer Hall is housed in what was a shoe factory founded by Cyrus F. Osgood in the late nineteenth century, who chose the location because of its proximity to the Camden & Atlantic railroad station. Several artifacts from this earlier business were located during Stockton鈥檚 renovation of the building and are on display.
Kramer Hall has hosted a range of undergraduate and graduate classes since it opened and is the academic home of the university鈥檚 masters programs in Data Science and Strategic Analytics and in Counseling. It is also the location of the ; the Stockton South Jersey Culture & History Center; and the Child Welfare Education Institute (CWEI), a grant-funded initiative to train social workers. Kramer Hall is also deeply connected to its local community, and hosts several regular and annual events, including Jammonton, the Atlantic County Teen Arts Festival, Hammonton鈥檚 Blueberry Walking Trail, and, notably, the Hammonton History Project & Sesquicentennial Celebration, developed in conjunction with the Hammonton Historical Society, Stockton鈥檚 Richard E. Bjork Library, the Town of Hammonton, and members of the community. The end result was an of hundreds of images and artifacts chronicling local history from 1866 to 2016.
