Rutgers’ next chapter demands a visionary president | Opinion
Rutgers has outgrown its regional identity and now stands as a national research powerhouse, requiring a leader with the ambition and vision to match its potential.
New Rutgers President By April 25, 2066
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Perhaps the article was written as a recruiting pitch for president candidates. Makes a credible case Rutgers University is trending upwards, with a lot of difficult restructuring work already completed.
Will be super if we have a new president named by April 25 who can hit ground running when Holloway steps away on July1.
I noticed the article did not mention athletics though.
Will be super if we have a new president named by April 25 who can hit ground running when Holloway steps away on July1.
I noticed the article did not mention athletics though.
Not surprised. I expect no traction on that until they've offered and the candidate has accepted. The new president is going to want to be involved in that process.
Ohio State’s president, Ted Carter, doesn’t have PhD or a master’s degree.
Ted earned oceanography degree at Naval Academy where he captained hockey team and became fighter pilot. Then Ted was boss at Naval Academy and University of Nebraska.
Would be interesting to see Rutgers faculty reaction if guy like Ted was hired to run RU.
It’ll leak at some point but I’d imagine they’ll cut it as close to the BOG meeting on the 25th as possible before announcing. Less time for the usual suspects to organize and protest against whoever’s picked
If there is an official announcement this month (and I would be surprised if there's not) it will be at the BOG meeting because BOG makes the official decision. The question is whether the names of the final candidates, or at least of the leading candidate, will leak before then as they sometimes do.
I doubt that Murphy is a candidate. I don't see why he would want to be President of Rutgers. He can get a much more lucrative job or, if he wants to stay in politics, a better launching pad for a future candidacy.
April 24th Board of Governors meeting agenda is out.
Lots on there like student housing at Helix, approving KPMG as auditor, but nothing on a new president.
Maybe the agenda will be amended to add the new president's hiring. Adding something that important at the last moment seems like bad practice though.
You'll notice that the agenda includes a closed session. Because the hiring of a president is a personnel matter, it wouldl be discussed and decided there, not in open session.
Appreciate your input. We'll find out next week whether Rutgers has a new president.
That doesn't make any sense. Holloway announced his retirement at the beginning of the school year. That wasn't ideal -- it's better for a President or Dean to announce his retirement in May of the previous year -- but it's enough time for a search committee to be appointed and to do its work. Interviews should be long since over by now. There must be some other problem, such as deadlock.
The last thing Rutgers needs is to have an acting President. For one thing, that postpones the choice of a new AD; that will require a lengthy search as well which the new President will want to influence by choosing the search committee's members.
Heard third hand through a donor that it may be Tammy Murphy. Sounds like BS.
She has no degree beyond a B.A. She served for about four years as a member of the Board of Visitors (the equivalent of Rutgers' Board of Governors) of her alma mater, the University of Virginia. Those seem like slim qualifications. But I guess she needs a job with her husband leaving office and with her Senate campaign having fallen through.
Sounds perfectly qualified........................to profit from the NJ dole.
No problem. This is the quietest search for a Rutgers President ever
If they actually have gone through the process and have a candidate that will be selected in this meeting without anything leaking, I'll be very impressed.
Yes. So it's possible they're not ready. But their next regular meeting is in June. My guess is they'd have a special meeting next month; June is awfully late to get someone on board on July 1.
I have been told that the BOG had wanted to name a president today, but that several good prospects have backed out because they thought RU was moving too slowly. Sounds like Rutgers, doesn't it?
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There is also a rumor that her husband is a possibility. At least he has a Harvard degree and a Wharton MBA. But (as I think I've said above) why would he want it? There are jobs that are much more lucrative and offer a better springboard for a return to politics.
We've had our DEI president, with Holloway's talk of "the beloved community." My uninformed guess is that we're heading in a different direction this time.
That rumor has legs with a NJ.com story that the Gov was approached and he has no interest. There's a thread on the football board now. He would be a disaster of a President. For that matter, any former Gov should not be the President of the State's flagship university, IMO.
If he says he has no interest, then shouldn't the rumor's legs fall off? Of course, the scary thing is that he was approached!
I can think of two politicians who became university presidents. Bob Kerrey, who had been governor and later senator from Nebraska, served for almost a decade as president of The New School in Manhattan; and Ben Sasse, also a senator from Nebraska, who had a disastrous year as president of the University of Florida (where he tripled the budget of the president's office and hired a lot of his former senate staff.
And I can think of two individuals who went from being university presidents to public office: Woodrow Wilson, who was president of Princeton before being elected as governor of New Jersey and, of course, later President; and Dwight Eisenhower, who was president of Columbia before becoming President.
I heard months ago “Murphy” wanted the job. After poking around I was told by more than a few folks that it was Tammy — not Phil — who was pushing for the job. Again, could be rumor but these are connected people who don’t throw around that type of stuff without it having any truth.
