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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]
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 ...
Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also the ...
Rutgers celebrates the inauguration of the first African American president, Jonathan Scott Holloway as the 21st President of Rutgers at the Rutgers Athletic Center in Piscataway, NJ on November 5 ...
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Then came the strike, the first in the university’s 256-year history, making Holloway Rutgers’ first and only president to preside over a work stoppage. His initial response was to threaten a ...
In 2016, Rutgers celebrated its 250th anniversary. On May 15, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to speak at the university's commencement. [50] [51] The university held a variety of celebrations, academic programs, and commemorative events which culminated on the 250th anniversary date, November 10, 2016.
Holloway, a U.S. historian, is the first person of color to lead Rutgers University. [8] The president serves in an ex officio capacity as a presiding officer within the university's 59-member Board of Trustees and its eleven-member Board of Governors, and is appointed by these boards to oversee day-to-day operations of the university across ...