Seton Hall's new president Joseph Nyre shares his vision for the university.

The $10 million endowment from Ric and Jean Edelman marks the largest single gift to the school dedicated exclusively to scholarships for learners.

Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, clergy, alumni, regents, government officials, and representatives from other colleges are expected to attend the event in the Walsh Gymnasium.

The $110,000 contribution will launch the Dover College Promise, to prepare students for college and provide scholarships to cover tuition at CCM.

The initiative was established with $3 million from, and named for, J&J Snack Foods Corp. CEO Gerald Shreiber.

“Rutgers health science faculty are the only Rutgers faculty without a parental leave policy,” said AAUP-BHSNJ executive director Diomedes Tsitouras in a statement. “This is just one in a long list of ways AAUP-BHSNJ staff are treated differently – and worse – than everyone else at Rutgers. We should be treated like all other Rutgers faculty.”

José Miguel Román joins from New York University where he has served as assistant vice president of sponsored programs administration since 2010.

Melanie Willoughby’s days as a pioneer date to 1972, when she enrolled at Rutgers College as one of the first 400 women accepted at the school. Later, she became the first female president elected to lead the school’s student government. Today, she leads the New Jersey Business Action Center, assisting businesses in growing and navigating through governmental regulation.

New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education Zakiya Smith Ellis announced a five-year Title III Department of Education grant to help institutions serve low-income and minority students.

Danielle McMahan will report directly to the Hoboken-based research and education business’s President and CEO Brian Napack in her new role managing global human resources operations.

Although industry jobs offer an average salary of $107,260 in New Jersey, only 1,642 students with majors in the field graduated from state universities in 2017.

Through Miles on a Mission, the airline's MileagePlus members can contribute to the Newark-based organization's goal of raising 1.5 million miles by Nov. 21 to help students visit top colleges, fly home for the holidays, and afford staff the opportunity to visit college students on campus.