The leaders profiled in this issue are responsible for managing organizations, making policies that directly affect the institutions or are themselves directly responsible for imparting knowledge to students, apprentices and the citizenry at large.

Keith Banks, vice chairman of Bank of America; North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley; and Robert Campbell, former vice chairman of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson, will be inducted on Nov. 7 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick.

The deal enables Raritan Valley Community College students who submit a letter of intent before completing 30 transferable credits to attend the Pennsylvania university with junior-year status, provided they have met certain requirements.

Under the Local Efficiency Achievement Program, or LEAP, each of New Jersey's 21 counties will receive $150,000 in grants to put toward creating consolidated programs.

The platform, called FABRIC, will help scientists re-imagine and redesign cyberspace based on today’s knowledge, providing a place to test networking and cybersecurity solutions.

The funding will support the construction of the new Gregory H. Olsen Center in Teaneck in recognition of his donations to Fairleigh Dickinson University, which total more than $10 million.

Peter Mercer has led the school through a campus-wide building and renovation program, which includes the opening of the Anisfield School of Business, since becoming president in 2005.

David Zald, set to join the university in May 2020, will also be a tenured professor and hold a Henry Rutgers Term Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

The Central Jersey Climate Coalition organized the Sept. 20 demonstration as part of the Global Climate Strike, a worldwide day of action to end fossil fuels and achieve climate justice for all.

NJBIZ spoke with new Monmouth University President Patrick Leahy, who began his tenure on Aug. 1, succeeding Grey Dimenna, about his visions for the school.