Liz Rosenberg

1 week ago | nj.com | Liz Rosenberg

Tonya Smith-Jackson, the current provost and vice chancellor at a land grant research university in North Carolina, was named Thursday to be the next Chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark. Her appointment, which was unanimously approved by the Rutgers Board of Governors, was announced jointly by outgoing Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway and incoming President William F. Tate IV.

1 week ago | nj.com | Liz Rosenberg

Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber received a standing ovation from graduates and spectators after defending American universities during his commencement address Tuesday. The Ivy League university handed out 1,293 undergraduate degrees, 463 doctoral degrees and 200 master’s degrees at the ceremony at Princeton Stadium. Eisgruber urged graduates to continue asking “questions that are unsettling and uncomfortable” and speaking up for what they believe in.

1 week ago | nj.com | Liz Rosenberg

Nearly 20 years ago, West Orange Public Schools decided to do something unique with its sixth graders. The Essex County public school district began sending all of the sixth grade to a single, stand-alone school. The Thomas A. Edison Central Six Middle School was created to ease the transition for students as they left various elementary schools around the district, where they usually spent their days with one or two main teachers in a single classroom.

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Liz Rosenberg

Golden Globe-winning comedian Ramy Youssef celebrated nearly 3,000 Rutgers-Newark graduates Thursday for accomplishing something he could not. Youssef — an actor and producer best-known for Hulu’s “Ramy” — left Rutgers-Newark in 2011 after three semesters, without a degree. The 34-year-old, now a Golden Globe winner, was invited back to deliver the commencement speech before the Class of 2025 at the Prudential Center in Newark.

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Liz Rosenberg

Louisiana State University President William Tate IV will get a big raise when he takes over as Rutgers University’s new president this summer. Tate was earning a base pay of $750,000 a year, plus the ability to boost his pay with bonuses, under a three-year contract extension he signed at Louisiana State in 2024. At Rutgers, he will earn a base salary of $1.1 million, plus significantly more in incentive pay and several other perks, according to the terms of his contract.