The communication studies course will be offered through the School of Continuing and Professional Education.

Jeremy Snepar joins the West Orange-based organization as entrepreneur in residence, focused on developing new opportunities for innovation around student acquisition, curriculum delivery and job placement.

“FinTech is currently the leading disruptive force in financial services, and the industry expectation is that these forces will remain in place powered by the unabated forward pace of technology,” said Professor Elven Riley, the program designer and a former Wall Street executive and advisor to some of the world’s largest investment banks.

First-year students in the class of 2024 and juniors can be on campus for the fall semester. In the spring term, the school will welcome back sophomores and seniors.

“We have wanted very fervently to be able to resume some version of a normal semester,” university President Jonathan Holloway said in a message Monday. However, “because of the ongoing requirements for social distancing and guided by our paramount priority of safeguarding the people of our university community, we determined that most courses this fall will have to rely on remote methods of instruction – delivered both in real time and asynchronously.”

Students training in the organization's new STEAM Lab, which was supported by the developer, will use Apple computers to master the skills they will need to help expand a local economy.

New Jersey native Matthew Whelan's post began with a message to the school community highlighting the importance of the institution's excellence in education for the present times, and its plans for the fall semester.

Monmouth University Polling Institute reported that as of late June, 64 percent of respondents were worried that states were lifting their pandemic restrictions too quickly.

Jonathan Holloway, the former provost at Northwestern University, said his initial energy in the role will be on "repair and rebuilding.”

According to President Ali Houshman, since 2003 Tabbetha Dobbins has been awarded more than $2 million in research funding.

The school currently has more than 3,000 students enrolled at six locations in the state.

“This is an ambitious plan and we’re going to form partnerships all over the country to make it successful,” said Rutgers NJ/NYCEO Associated Director Jim Terez. “We will be talking to federal, state, and local agencies, business groups, chambers of commerce, community organizations, and universities to build awareness of these job-saving strategies.”