South Middlesex Times

Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway announced the launch of the search for a permanent chancellor for Rutgers University-Newark, naming Professor Salamishah Tillet and Prabhas Moghe, executive vice president for academic affairs, as co-chairs of the search committee.

“The search committee will gather feedback from stakeholders within and beyond Rutgers-Newark to inform the leadership profile and help them to evaluate candidates for the chancellorship,” Holloway noted in a message to the Rutgers-Newark community on Tuesday.

Students, staff, and faculty from across the university join members of Rutgers’ governing boards, alumni, and community partners to complete the search committee. The committee will cultivate, interview, and evaluate a pool of potential candidates and recommend a shortlist of finalists to Holloway.

The finalists will undergo additional review and ultimately, the top candidate will be presented to the Board of Governors for approval. Holloway said he intends to announce a new chancellor next spring to take office next summer.

“As the search progresses, I want to applaud Jeffrey Robinson for stepping forward to provide vital leadership as interim chancellor, helping Rutgers-Newark uphold and bolster its reputation as an engine of social mobility for our students, a hub of outstanding research and a model anchor institution,” Holloway said.

Holloway appointed Robinson, Rutgers-Newark executive vice chancellor and provost, as interim chancellor for the full 2024-2025 academic year following Nancy Cantor’s successful decade-long leadership as Rutgers-Newark chancellor. On Aug. 12, Cantor began her tenure as the 14th president of Hunter College in New York City.

Robinson joined the faculty at Rutgers Business School in 2008 and is the academic director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED), where he has applied his scholarship through social entrepreneurship and promoting minority businesses.

Isaacson Miller, assisting with the search process, has set up an email account for confidential nominations or other feedback: NewarkChancellorSearch@rutgers.edu. More information on the search will be posted on President Holloway's Administrative Searches page.

The members of the search committee are:

Prabhas Moghe (co-chair), executive vice president for Academic Affairs; Distinguished Professor at School of Engineering

Salamishah Tillet (co-chair), Henry Rutgers Professor; Director at Express Newark

LaToya Battle-Brown (senior vice chancellor)

Paul Boxer (professor)

Sherri-Ann Butterfield (senior VP)

Melissa Cooper (associate professor)

Jason Cortés (associate professor; chair)

Alex Gimenez-Santana (assistant professor)

David Harris (trustee member; retired partner)

Stefon Harris (associate professor)

Randi Mandelbaum (associate dean; professor)

Joy McDonald (associate director)

Tiffany Olivera (Ph.D. candidate; student representative)

Rosa Oppenheim (Dean’s Professor; interim chair)

Suzanne Piotrowski (professor)

Oliver Quinn (chair; retired VP)

Ashaki Rouff (professor)

Wardah Samad (undergraduate student; president)

Elizabeth Surles(archivist)

Brian Ballentine(senior VP)

Kristen Baker(senior project coordinator)