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The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (informally called Rutgers University) / ˈ r ʌ t ɡ ər z / is the chief administrator of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Rutgers was founded by clergymen affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church in 1766 as Queen's College and was the eighth-oldest of nine colleges ...
Richard Fink, B.A. in Economics, founded the Center for Study of Market Processes at Rutgers University. After the Koch brothers donated $30 million, it moved to George Mason University in the 1980s and in 1999 it became the Mercatus Center. James J. Florio, J.D. 1967 (Camden), 49th governor of New Jersey (1990–1994)
The following individuals have served as President of Rutgers University, also known as Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and formerly known as Rutgers College (1825-1924) and Queen's College (1766-1825), established in 1766.
Jonathan Scott Holloway (born 1967) is an American historian, academic administrator, and the 21st president of Rutgers University. Holloway was named as the president of Rutgers University in January 2020 becoming the first person of color and first African American to be named president of Rutgers. He assumed the position on July 1, 2020. [1]
It was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 after Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), an American Revolutionary War hero, philanthropist, and an early benefactor of the school. [1] With the development of graduated education, Rutgers College was renamed Rutgers University in 1924.
Each year, a new cohort of fifty rising eighth-grade students from each of the university's host cities of Newark, Camden, New Brunswick, and Piscataway begins a five-year process of regular visits to campus, college preparation activities, and mentoring, with the guarantee of free tuition at Rutgers for all those who earn admission after high ...
Six Rutgers University students and one alum were charged this week with running a sophisticated drug ring — and allegedly used a “private social media network” to sell narcotics to fellow ...
Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. [1] He was best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book They Came Before Columbus (1976).