Debasish Dutta from Purdue will become the next chancellor of Rutgers University-New Brunswick
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I admit I love the fact that he is coming from a fellow B1G school, especially one that excels in the STEM and Hard Sciences like Purdue. Sounds like a Home Run on paper by Barchi.
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I had a chance to listen to him speak today at a reception and was impressed. I think he'll be good for the school.
Say what you want about Barchi on the Athletics side of things, but the man is turning RU into a B1G powerhouse academically. I'd love to see us buy out Sears on Route 1 and the restaurants next...tear them down and start a Vet School on Cook. They could even make a new facade/gateway entry to Cook via Route 1.
Lafayette Journal & Courier
Purdue provost to leave for top Rutgers position
Beyond Purdue he sent time at Illinois and Michigan. B1G through and through.
Purdue provost to leave for top Rutgers position
Beyond Purdue he sent time at Illinois and Michigan. B1G through and through.
Yes, more B1G, less "exclusive" privates.
Bigmatt, I believe President Barchi talked about looking into adding a Vet School a few years ago. I could be wrong,but I don't think there is a Vet School in New Jersey which is kind of crazy when we are in a state with almost nine million people.I would also like to see Rutgers offer a four-year Education degree. We must lose some bright kids who are just not interested/can't afford the five-year program. I also think it helps in some subtle ways to recruit students and student- athletes if kids see that more of their teachers went to their state university. Even more so if we can get more gym teachers/HS coaches who went to RU. Just my two cents.
There's a lot of teachers in NJ who went to rutgers. I had many in high school
What type of responsibilities and role does the Chancellor have ? Is it essentially the head spot overseeing everything for NB campus ? Was there someone currently in that role and what were the major things/projects they can claim ?
Thanks. The linked page was more around the current chancellor's background, with a one sentence blurb at the end of what he accomplished at RU. Is anyone familiar with the type of initiatives Edwards or other Chancellors have helped push forward at RU ?
Basically he runs RU-NB, minus the Health bits, on a daily basis.
About the Office
The Office of the Chancellor sets the tone for Rutgers University–New Brunswick, oversees the day-to-day running of the institution, and charts the course for its future.
The deans of 12 degree-granting schools based at Rutgers–New Brunswick report to the chancellor as do Douglass Residential College, the Honors College, and a number of administrative units.
Working with a leadership team, Chancellor Richard Edwards oversees Rutgers' flagship—the region’s most high-profile public research institution and a leading national research center with a global impact.
About the Office
The Office of the Chancellor sets the tone for Rutgers University–New Brunswick, oversees the day-to-day running of the institution, and charts the course for its future.
The deans of 12 degree-granting schools based at Rutgers–New Brunswick report to the chancellor as do Douglass Residential College, the Honors College, and a number of administrative units.
Working with a leadership team, Chancellor Richard Edwards oversees Rutgers' flagship—the region’s most high-profile public research institution and a leading national research center with a global impact.
It has amazed me that we don't have a focus on media/film school and hotel operations at Rutgers. Being so close to NYC you'd think this is a natural. But as for that spot on route 1.. maybe the RAC should be there... I know.. too late for that.
Film/media school as well as hotel/restaurant management should've been a given at RU given its proximity to NYC/Philly/AC.
Yes, the chancellor is the head academic officer for the NB/Piscataway campus. Rutgers has gone back and forth on having a chancellor at New Brunswick. Fran Lawrence abolished the position, which meant that the central University administration ran New Brunswick. This created a conflict of interest between running New Brunswick and being responsible for all of the campuses. Things seem much better now that the central administration can focus on balancing the needs of all of the campuses (including the medical school portions)
Maybe hotel/restaurant management will be started once the hotel at Livingston gets underway. Here is some information about the Film major at Rutgers Mason Gross School of The Arts--http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/digital-film
It think we ought to look closely at a hospitality school.
For the educational snobs that say it is overly vocational having one doesn't seem to hurt Cornell.
We will have to watch for resistance of politicians from a certain part of the State that see the programs at Stockton and Atlantic County as part of their "We're all in for Atlantic City" program. They might not want the competition, like how they get hives whenever someone suggests turning Xanadon't of the Meadowlands into a casino.
Even AC keeps fading away there must be a huge demand just from NYC, Philly and other local tourism.
For the educational snobs that say it is overly vocational having one doesn't seem to hurt Cornell.
We will have to watch for resistance of politicians from a certain part of the State that see the programs at Stockton and Atlantic County as part of their "We're all in for Atlantic City" program. They might not want the competition, like how they get hives whenever someone suggests turning Xanadon't of the Meadowlands into a casino.
Even AC keeps fading away there must be a huge demand just from NYC, Philly and other local tourism.
There are 3 things RU needs to start within the next 10 years on the academic side:
1.) A Vet School on Cook...period. RU would have the only Vet School in NJ and with the farm and animals there already it needs to be done.
2.) A Hotel/Restaurant Management School on Livingston, possibly as a part of RBS. Again...RU is equidistant from the Big 3 of NYC/Philly/AC. Should be a no brainer.
3.) A Film Studies School for SCILS.we may already have that, perhaps my SCILS grads can help me there. If not a full fledged Sports Broadcasting/Sports Communications major to compete with Cuse and Newman.
Not disagreeing with you. I think we should also.
But Vet schools are few and far between.
Beyond NJ 22 other states have no school. Only California has two with the exception of Tennessee and Alabama that have two only as a vestige of histrionically black schools to accommodate the segregationist policies of their educational systems.
The vets have not been like the lawyers allowing seemingly anybody to open a law school and generating a glut of over educated under employed folks.
Even so, there is a surplus of vets. I think we will see few new vet schools in the foreseeable future.
Unless there is a massive gift to the school, I think it unlikely that we will open a new school of any sort. It's hard enough to maintain what we have now given the cuts in state appropriations (which pay cost of instruction rather than for some specific program). In addition, there is no good place to add new schools. While there is open land on Livingston, the central administration seems to have decided that the New Brunswick enrollment should be limited to where it is now, or lesser, because of the traffic around the campus and the difficulty of providing more student services. (Students need more services every year, it seems.) And neither Newark nor Camden have the space.
Unless there is a massive gift to the school, I think it unlikely that we will open a new school of any sort. It's hard enough to maintain what we have now given the cuts in state appropriations (which pay cost of instruction rather than for some specific program). In addition, there is no good place to add new schools. While there is open land on Livingston, the central administration seems to have decided that the New Brunswick enrollment should be limited to where it is now, or lesser, because of the traffic around the campus and the difficulty of providing more student services. (Students need more services every year, it seems.) And neither Newark nor Camden have the space.
Nj Like many other states prefer that you have a Masters now so RU degree is a benefit as you get your master before you get out. What they need to do is introduce a Phys Ed. Major
Agree with Camdenlaw prof on surplus of vets based on what I knew when I worked at UW-Madison through 2014.
Yes, I've never heard someone say "I've been trying to get Fluffy in to see the vet but they said I'd have to wait 3 weeks for the next appointment."
