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ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024 — Deans, Directors & Key Officials

Discover the influential deans, directors and key officials shaping the landscape of higher education in New Jersey. This category highlights leaders who are driving innovation, improving academic programs and fostering partnerships between institutions and the business community.

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ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Craig Arnold

Craig Arnold Vice dean of innovation Princeton University He works to help the school engage with entrepreneurs, alumni, industry, technology investors and other potential partners — as well as serving as lead on important initiatives, such as NSF grant for photonics research.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Jane Bokunewicz

Jane Bokunewicz Faculty director, Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality and Tourism Stockton University Heads an important group that aims to provide a forum for public policy discussions regarding the gaming, hospitality and tourism industries in Atlantic City and across the state.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Donna Breault

Donna Breault Acting provost New Jersey City University She has been a huge player in the transformation of the school, leading the recently released Strategic Enrollment Plan as well as the schools’ Recovery and Revitalization Plan.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Brian Bridges

Brian Bridges Secretary of higher education State of New Jersey He began the job during COVID (November 2020), simply trying to catch up. The heavy turnover of college presidents since then makes him one of the veterans in the room now.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Tony Calcado

Tony Calcado Chief operating officer Rutgers University His span of authority includes oversights of the school’s $510 million operating budget as well as stewardship of all the university’s physical assets across the state (more than 30 million square feet).

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Dan Cassino

Dan Cassino Executive director, FDU Poll Fairleigh Dickinson University His group provides timely and insightful snapshots into views — on all topics — of New Jerseyans.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Morris Davis

Morris Davis Academic director, Center for Real Estate Studies Rutgers University He continues to lead the most influential real estate school in the state — one that has been intentional in its efforts to bring more women and people of color into the field.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Ben Dworkin

Ben Dworkin Director, Rowan Institute for Public Policy & Citizenship Rowan University With a focus on informing, engaging and training Rowan students, faculty and the public, Dworkin helps build Rowan’s reputation as one of the leading research institutions in the state.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Angela Garretson

Angela Garretson Chief government and community affairs officer New Jersey Institute of Technology She is a preeminent catalyst for cultivating relationships. Her unrivaled network transcends politics, business and community spheres, enabling her to help the university connect and collaborate with key stakeholders throughout the...

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Kim Hollister

Kim Hollister Dean, Feliciano School of Business Montclair State University A veteran of the school (she arrived in 1999), she has been instrumental in making the Feliciano School one of the most important and impactful business schools in the state.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — GAËTANE JEAN-MARIE

GAËTANE JEAN-MARIE Dean, College of Education Rowan University Leads college that graduates nearly 1,000 future educators a year; helped create Men of Color Hope Achievers, which is an alternative route education program for an underrepresented group to enter profession.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Lisa Kaplowitz

Lisa Kaplowitz Executive director, Rutgers Center for Women in Business Rutgers-Newark and New Brunswick In addition to being an accomplished executive, well-honored educator and sought-after speaker, she is a leader in advocating for women in the business world, aiming to drive equity by removing...

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Audrey Kelly

Audrey Kelly Chief of staff, executive director to the board of trustees Kean University She has served the board for two decades — and served Kean in nearly every capacity. As chief of staff, she oversees a variety of departments while leading the president’s...

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Brian Kirkpatrick

Brian Kirkpatrick Chief financial officer New Jersey City University Fewer than 18 months after NJCU declared a fiscal emergency, Kirkpatrick (who started in June 2023) has helped school produce the first balanced operating budget since 2017, a key to Moody’s outlook being upgraded from...

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Sara Klein

Sara Klein Vice president of student affairs Stevens Institute of Technology A recent winner of the prestigious Active Minda Healthy Campus award, she is a leader in addressing student mental health by responsibly expanding the availability of services to meet students where they are.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Patricia Morreale

Patricia Morreale Chair, Department of Computer Science and Technology Kean University She’s a strong advocate for women and underserved representation in STEM, and a champion of grants. The latest: $800,000 from the NSF to study how software can be more inclusive.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Patrick Murray

Patrick Murray Director, Polling Institute Monmouth University Few polls are as respected — or as accurate. He brings insights into politics and policy around the state and around the country.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — John Pelesko

John Pelesko Provost New Jersey Institute of Technology An alum (he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics more than 25 years ago), he returns to help lead a university whose academic programs are among the very best in the state, if not the country.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Gregory Prastacos

Gregory Prastacos Dean, School of Business Stevens Institute of Technology Long a leader of incorporating data into everything the business school does, he will be key leader of NJ FAST, the public-private fintech accelerator at Stevens announced earlier this month.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Micah Rasmussen

Micah Rasmussen Director, Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics Rider University His real-world experience in politics and business gives him unique perspective — and unquestioned credibility.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Annette Reboli

Annette Reboli Dean, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Rowan University The school recently was ranked No. 1 in New Jersey and in the Top 50 nationally for primary care, helping to address an urgent shortfall of physicians that will soon hit the state...

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Steve Reynolds

Steve Reynolds President Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey Highly respected thought leader heads organization of 13 top private schools — along with all-star board — with mission to promote access, affordability and student success through public policy advocacy, corporate and individual philanthropy.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Liz Rich

Liz Rich Acting director, Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Montclair State University The Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation just celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Women Entrepreneurship Week, an event featuring dynamic entrepreneurial experts while recognizing and celebrating female founders.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Brian Strom

Brian Strom Chancellor, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Rutgers University In addition to all the work he has done and is doing with Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health, he has a long history of research: He has been the principal investigator or co-PI of 11...

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Sandra Suarez

Sandra Suarez Director of Ramapo College STEM Center & Upward Bound Math Science and McNair Scholars Program Ramapo College Program, which recently was awarded $1.3 million grant, aims to bridge the achievement gap for all STEM students, including first-generation and students of color.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Jin Wang

Jin Wang Dean, College of Business and Public Management Kean University Two teams he led from Kean’s CBPM recently ranked among the Top 3% of competitors in the 2023 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge, a competition that featured more than 300 schools.

ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2024: Deans, Directors & Key Officials — Peter Woolley

Peter Woolley Founding director, School of Public and Global Affairs Fairleigh Dickinson University He oversees operations of graduate school that operates in three countries on four campuses while maintaining local presence: He currently is interviewing all key gubernatorial candidates in public forum presentations.

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