ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2021 — Deans and directors
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2021 — Valedictorian
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2021 — Community colleges
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2021 — College presidents
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education 2021 — Honor Roll
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education — Deans and directors (M-Z)
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education — College presidents, on the honor roll
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education — Education associations
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education — Business partners
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...
ROI Influencers: Higher Education — Athletics
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...
