Higher Education

The number of highly influential academics throughout the state is almost too high to count. That’s why we decided to pick just a few honorees in a small sample of disciplines  that are most...

Joel Bloom President New Jersey Institute of Technology It would be easy to call this a lifetime achievement award for Bloom, who has done so much in his 10 years as president of NJIT to elevate the...

Tony Iacono President County College of Morris CCM was judged the top community college in the state by Intelligent and Academic Influence — and the top school for salaries of graduates by Newsweek and Payscale. Recently, the...

Head of the class Chris Eisgruber President Princeton University The No. 1 school in the U.S. News & World Report national ranking — now a decadelong streak — certainly is impressive, but Eisgruber is honored here for his...

Nancy Cantor Chancellor Rutgers University-Newark In her seventh year at the school, she is now a veteran presence among government and business leaders, helping the school serve as an anchor institution in the community that preaches racial...

Bernard McSherry Founding dean, School of Business New Jersey City University As a former business leader, entrepreneur and governor of the New York Stock Exchange, McSherry brings real-world experience while grooming the next generation of business leaders...

Nancy Cantor Chancellor Rutgers University-Newark Cantor, the longtime chancellor at Rutgers-Newark, has been a longtime leader on diversity, equity and inclusion. She has made Rutgers-Newark an anchor in the city, respected by government and the business community. Kate...

Marie Blistan President NJEA So much of the success — and future success — of the state’s higher education system is built on the country’s top-ranked public K-12 system. Blistan heads the biggest education union in the...

Patrick Dunican Managing partner Gibbons P.C. Dunican, who is the chair of the board of trustees at Iona and on the board of visitors at Seton Hall Law, backs a higher education focus group at Gibbons that...

The success (and failure) of college athletics impacts the bottom line in higher education. That’s why — even though the Big Ten shut down its fall season — Rutgers Scarlet Knights football coach Greg...