Angel Gonzalez was selected after an extensive national search that included input from faculty, staff, students and board members. According to the school, he will be a critical addition to New Jersey City University's senior leadership team and will provide transformative leadership to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion as part of its core mission.

The founder and owner of Hoboken Children's Theater talks about how she and her staff dealt with the untimely shuttering of the theater, her plans for the next few months and how the arts community in general has been hurt by the pandemic.

Univesity President Jonathan Holloway said the new role will support and advance academically centered leadership in New Brunswick, Rutgers’ largest campus and a member of the Association of American Universities.

Vice Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor will become the first Asian-American woman dean at the school and the first Filipina-American dean of any law school in the United States.

The goal of the “NJ Wind Turbine Tech Training Challenge” is to put up the money for a community college to develop and roll out a program that could address the labor “gap” for the sector, fueled by the lack of any relevant training program.

Four alumni who currently work for Pfizer at its Pearl River, N.Y., facility experienced first-hand the excitement of the company’s announcement last fall that its mRNA vaccine was 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 infections. And not only do the graduates have their college and workplace in common, they also studied under Professor Paramjeet Bagga, a co-founder of the Bioinformatics program at the New Jersey public liberal arts school.

Despite relatively high unemployment, workforce shortages abound in several industries nationwide. In the roofing industry, 90% of contractors have experienced some sort of labor shortage in the last year, according to the National Roofing Contractors Association. As the largest roofing manufacturer in North America, Parsippany-based GAF can’t ignore the problem. “If we don’t have labor to install our product, our product will not get installed,” said Brian Cornelius, program director at GAF Roofing Academy.

“Atlantic City has always been a top destination for entertainment in New Jersey, so establishing the city as an epicenter of the growing esports industry is a logical and exciting step forward," said Lt. Gov.Sheila Oliver.

Effective July 1, Yeurys Pujols will assume his new role at the institution where he currently serves as executive director of the HCCC North Hudson Campus. He began his career at the college in 2006 as a counselor and history instructor and was appointed director of enrollment and student services in 2010.

To combat summer learning loss, grants of $1,000 and $5,000 will be available to any of the 250 Out-of-School-Time learning programs within the campaign's network, which kids attend outside of normal schooling hours or days.

Effective June 28, 2021, Peter Ubertaccio, an accomplished political scientist and faculty member, as well as an experienced administrator, will take the reins at the private, Catholic coed four-year university.

“Our message today is simple. We believe the path to normalcy is through widespread vaccination and we want our entire community to commit to reaching the goal of widespread vaccination,” Rowan President Ali Houshmand said in the university-wide announcement.