Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway talks with with students after hosting a seminar called "Citizenship, Institutions, and the Public" at Rutgers–New Brunswick.
Rutgers University senate votes no confidence in the school’s president after faculty strike and controversial changes So what are the various factors? COVID has psychologically exhausted everybody. That’s part of it. There’s no doubt. The political moment is such... it’s in vogue to go after people. Social media has completely fractured our sense of polity.
We have two medical schools we are quite proud of, but if you look at the national landscape of how do you improve the reputation of an institution, how do you improve research dollars, how do you create efficiencies that will put more resources where they should be, instead of in a back office somewhere, merging makes sense.
There’s a natural tension between a president and any chancellor of ‘I want to run my shop; — the chancellor would say this — and the president saying, ‘OK, but we need to go in this direction.’ The result was that Newark and Camden felt like, what is it called the redheaded... stepchild. That’s part of the history.