If selected, Brian Bridges would head an agency that oversees the state’s 81 colleges and universities, replacing Zakiya Smith Ellis, who stepped down from the post to join the governor’s office at the start of July.

“What a disconcerting time we are in that I write of rules and constraints rather than freedoms and wants,” Foster said. “I join you in yearning for a time before long when we can gather again as a community beyond Zoom. The coming three months will no doubt bring more issues and ideas to which we will respond.”

The partnership will rely on cooperation from and with anchor institutions like AtlantiCare, Exelon, the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, Ørsted, South Jersey Industries and Stockton University.

The 31,500-square-foot facility will offer education and training in a number of degree and certificate programs at the County College of Morris, and provide the industry with opportunities to update the skills of current employees.

The school's board of trustees unanimously agreed to renew Gregory Dell'Omo's tenure through July 31, 2024. Since his arrival, the university has developed more than a dozen new undergraduate and graduate academic programs, including its first doctoral program in educational leadership.

The Grace Y. Bissett and Louise Monez Hill Scholarship Fund will support the education of students in need pursuing a career in teaching, religion, social work or a similar field who are devoted to the cause. It coincides with the school's own efforts to enact a new strategic plan, one of whose pillars centers on fostering an inclusive environment on campus and in the surrounding community.

The clinical component of the university's School of Osteopathic Medicine will initially open six health care programs on the first floor of a two-story, 55,000-square-foot building, scheduled to debut in March 2021.

Providers are struggling with increased burdens for protective equipment, coupled with state-mandated restrictions on class size and already-inadequate state assistance.

The West Long Branch-based university reached a peak of 193 active cases on Oct. 6, which has been “effectively halved” to 96 cases, according to an Oct. 16 statement.

Mercer County Community College students can now put their associate degrees in Business Administration toward a number of programs at New Jersey City University.

The National Institutes of Health grant will allow the Rutgers-led New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science to launch outreach campaigns and expand access.

Remote collaboration and other pandemic-related obstacles haven’t stopped New Jersey engineering organizations – and institutes of higher education – from innovating, according to insiders. Instead, like any good engineer, they come up with a workaround.