Mimi Brooks will serve alongside other senior executives from companies including Uber, Microsoft, Google, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Capital One counseling the Transformative Leadership in Disruptive Times program offered by Stillman School of Business.

Rutgers University is ready to kick off with the rest of the Big Ten in October, after the 14-member athletic league reversed an August decision to cancel its fall football season.

"Our interdisciplinary master's ... will provide students with the needed skills to immediately begin a lucrative, rewarding career," said Elizabeth Hawthorne, an adjunct assistant professor of computer science/cybersecurity. "Cybersecurity professionals are needed in all industries and play a critical role in protecting organizations from cyber threats and attacks."

Handling a public health emergency requires strong responses from a variety of institutions. The role played by educators and researchers in ongoing efforts against COVID-19 is reflected here, with the top ten, in particular, indicative of just how crucial universities and medical schools were in getting New Jersey through the worst of the pandemic and – residents hope – on the road to recovery.

The dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health and the chancellor of Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences were handpicked by the Murphy administration to trail several hundred community contact tracers to isolate COVID-19 cases in order to prevent outbreaks.

Two other New Jersey four-year schools, Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, placed in the top 100 on the National Universities list.

New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said the “most recent increase began in August,” citing “anecdotal reports at social gatherings” such as “end-of-summer parties and back-to-school parties.”

Susan Cole, the university's first woman president, whose tenure saw the school transition from a master's level institution to a doctoral research university with an enrollment increase from 12,000 to 21,000, will step down from her post after 23 years at the school's helm.

Editor Jeff Kanige talks to Michael Scanlan, dean of administration at St. Benedict's Prep, who founded an investment club that connects high school students with alumni in the finance industry.

Students will pay 22 percent less at the Lawrenceville university beginning in the fall of 2021, and will be offered enhanced resources to get them ready for the world of work.

Rutgers researchers analyzed federal data to estimate minimum wage violations during the Great Recession, finding that every percentage point a state’s unemployment rate went up correlated with almost a full percentage point increase in the chances that a worker would experience a minimum wage violation.

The new technological- and analytic-focused designation is available to full-time, part-time or executive students in the Master of Business Administration program.