New Jersey is one of 38 states requiring students be inoculated with the meningococcal conjugate vaccine.

In 2017, a 12-member group Gov. Chris Christie convened two years earlier issued a list of recommendations to universities on curtailing assault on campus. This week, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a measure to create a new body to continue that work.

Rutgers University-New Brunswick placed at No. 39 for its bachelor's programs, but state schools appeared throughout the rankings, which also evaluated Graduate Business, Nursing and Graduate Information Technology programs, among others.

Participants will perform 2,000 hours of paid, on-the-job training and classroom training based on the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council Logistics Technician Certification.

The measure would have allowed some school districts to exceed the 2 percent annual limit as a way of making up for lost funds, but the governor said his so-called millionaire's tax was a better source.

“Our relationships with NCYU and NTCU will provide Stockton students the opportunity to learn about another culture and enhance their educations,” University President Harvey Kesselman said. “As a result of our trip, Stockton will become a member of Taiwan’s preferred list of institutions to visit and partner with on exchange programs, academic symposiums and research conferences.”

“Funding decisions should not be made in a vacuum or through an ad hoc approach without consideration of the broader process of allocating resources to the competing programs, services, interests, and obligations of the state that our taxpayers ultimately fund,” the governor said on Jan. 13.

Business education innovator and information technology workforce issues scholar Monica Adya will take up the post in March.

The appointments of Rutgers-Camden Chancellor Phoebe Haddon and OceanFirst Bank Chairman, President and CEO Christopher Maher are effective this month.

Labor leaders criticize Rutgers University’s hiring of a football coach, and its search for a new president.

"I am swelling with hometown pride," Karen Cahn told NJBIZ. "The Feliciano Center’s commitment to women entrepreneurship makes this a no-brainer for me and iFundWomen. We share the same goals.”

Kathryn Jervis's appointment is effective July 1, 2020.