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Elizabeth Matto named as new Eagleton Institute director

September 13, 2023 3:53 pm

Elizabeth Matto has been named as the new director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, the university announced today. She assumed the role on September 1, succeeding John Farmer Jr., who stepped down earlier this year after...

Oliver Tribute: Jonathan Holloway

August 1, 2023 1:40 pm

Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway released the following statement on the death of Lieutenant Gov. Sheila Oliver: “Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver was a remarkable woman who forcefully represented her district, her county and our state with dignity and determination. She...

Rutgers faculty begins history-making strike

April 10, 2023 10:18 amApril 10, 2023 3:44 pm

A history-making strike at Rutgers University has begun, with three unions representing 9,000 professors, researchers, and clinicians walking out at 9 a.m. this morning after months of stalled contract negotiations. Rutgers faculty had been working without a contract since July...

Gottheimer wades into fight with Rutgers part-time lecturers’ union over Israel-Palestine conflict

June 29, 2021 3:01 pm

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) waded into a fight over Rutgers University’s part-time lecturers’ union call for the school to divest from Israeli bonds over the nation’s treatment of Palestinians Tuesday. “To be sure, Rutgers’ part-time lecturers are entitled to hold...

Murphy eludes question on reparations

June 21, 2021 2:31 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy side-stepped a question of whether a Wealth Disparity Task Force he announced last week would address reparations or whether he supported the creation of a Reparations Task Force. “How great was it we were able to celebrate...

More than 50 years after Ginsburg suit, Weinberg wades into Rutgers equal pay fight

December 8, 2020 2:44 pmDecember 8, 2020 7:06 pm

More than 50 years after late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sued Rutgers University over its unequal compensation of women, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) is wading into a fight with the school over the same issue. Weinberg...

Rutgers to get its first black president

January 20, 2020 2:45 am

Rutgers University will soon appoint its first black president. The college’s Board of Governors is set to appoint Jonathan Holloway, the provost of Northeastern University, to fill outgoing President Bob Barchi’s post Tuesday. Barchi announced he intended to step down...