Editing Rutgers University (section)

==Organization and administration==
===University president===
{{See also|List of Rutgers University presidents}}

Since 1785, twenty-one men have served as the institution's president, beginning with [[Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh]], a Dutch Reformed minister who was responsible for establishing the college.<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/jacob-rutsen-hardenbergh Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh – Queen’s College President, 1786 to 1790] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901175933/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/jacob-rutsen-hardenbergh |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref><ref name="FruscianoLeadership">Frusciano, Thomas J. "Leadership on the Banks: Rutgers' Presidents, 1766–2004", in ''The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries'' LIII(1) (June 1991).</ref> Before 1930, most of the university's presidents were clergy affiliated with Christian denominations in the [[Calvinism|Reformed tradition]] (either [[Reformed Church in America|Dutch]] or [[Reformed Church in the United States|German]] Reformed, or [[Presbyterianism in the United States|Presbyterian]]).<ref name="FruscianoLeadership" /><ref name="RutgersLeadersPastPresidents">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/past-presidents Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Past Presidents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901173923/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/past-presidents |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref> Two presidents were alumni of Rutgers College—[[William Henry Steele Demarest|William H. S. Demarest]] (Class of 1883) and [[Philip Milledoler Brett]] (Class of 1892).<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/william-henry-steele-demarest Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: William Henry Steele Demarest – Rutgers President, 1906 to 1924] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901175743/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/william-henry-steele-demarest |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref><ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/philip-m-brett Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Philip M. Brett – Rutgers Acting President, 1930 to 1931] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901175721/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/philip-m-brett |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref>

The president serves in an ''[[ex officio]]'' capacity as a presiding officer within the university's 59-member board of trustees and its eleven-member board of governors,<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-trustees/board-trustees-membership-listing Governing Boards: Board of Trustees Membership Listing, 2013–2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221012907/http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-trustees/board-trustees-membership-listing |date=December 21, 2013 }} and [http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-governors/board-governors-membership-listing Governing Boards: Board of Governors Membership Listing, 2013–2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221012956/http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-governors/board-governors-membership-listing |date=December 21, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref> and is appointed by these boards to oversee the day-to-day operations of the university across its campuses. He is charged with implementing "board policies with the help and advice of senior administrators and other members of the university community."<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/leadership-governance About Rutgers: Vision and Continuity – Leadership and Governance] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901172220/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/leadership-governance |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref> The president is responsible only to those two governing boards—there is no oversight by state officials. Frequently, the president also occupies a professorship in his academic discipline and engages in instructing students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the President |url=https://www.rutgers.edu/president/about-president-holloway |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.rutgers.edu |language=en}}</ref>

The current president is [[Jonathan Holloway (historian)|Jonathan Holloway]], who assumed the role on July 1, 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Freytas-Tamura|first=Kimiko de|date=January 19, 2020|title=Rutgers to Name Its First Black President, School Official Says|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/nyregion/rutgers-president-jonathan-holloway.html|access-date=April 29, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120225114/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/nyregion/rutgers-president-jonathan-holloway.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Governing boards===
Governance at Rutgers University rests with a board of trustees consisting of 41 members, and a board of governors consisting of 15 voting members: eight are appointed by the [[Governor of New Jersey]] and seven chosen by and from among the board of trustees.<ref name="Targeted">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/health/hset/chapter6.htm |title=Commission on Health Science, Education, and Training: Rutgers Targeted Assessment |access-date=August 31, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050831235722/http://www.state.nj.us/health/hset/chapter6.htm |archive-date=August 31, 2005  }} accessed June 20, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOTmembers.shtml Rutgers: Members of the Board of Trustees] accessed August 15, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901094715/http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOTmembers.shtml |date=September 1, 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOGmembers.shtml Rutgers:Members of the Board of Governors] accessed August 15, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205200723/http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOGmembers.shtml |date=February 5, 2012 }}</ref> The trustees constitute chiefly an advisory body to the board of governors and are the fiduciary overseers of the property and assets of the university that existed before the institution became the State University of New Jersey in 1945. The initial reluctance of the trustees (still acting as a private corporate body) to cede control of certain business affairs to the state government for direction and oversight caused the state to establish the Board of governors in 1956.<ref>[http://ur.rutgers.edu/magazine/article/View%20from%20the%20Inside/38/ "A View from the Inside"]  {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20060509173603/http://ur.rutgers.edu/magazine/article/View%20from%20the%20Inside/38/ |date=May 9, 2006 }} (an interview with Dr. Richard P. McCormick) by Thomas J. Frusciano in ''Rutgers Magazine'' (Winter 2006). Retrieved August 16, 2006.</ref> Today, the board of governors maintains much of the corporate control of the university.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Governing Boards of the University {{!}} |url=https://governingboards.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=governingboards.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

The members of the board of trustees are voted upon by different constituencies or appointed. "Two faculty and two students are elected by the University Senate as nonvoting representatives. The 59 voting members are chosen in the following way as mandated by state law: 20 charter members (of whom at least three shall be women), 16 alumni members nominated by the nominating committee of the board of trustees, and five public members appointed by the governor of the state with confirmation by the [[New Jersey Senate]].<ref>[https://governingboards.rutgers.edu Governing Boards], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Rutgers University is governed by a Board of Governors composed of 15 voting members vested generally with the government, control, conduct, management, and administration of the university. Rutgers also has an advisory Board of Trustees of 41 voting members empowered with certain fiduciary responsibilities over assets of the university in existence before 1956. The university president is a nonvoting, ex-officio member of both boards."</ref>

===Affiliations===
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* [[Association of American Universities]]
* [[Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools]]
* [[Big Ten Academic Alliance]]
* [[Universities Research Association]]
* [[Association of Public and Land-grant Universities]]
* [[Big Ten Conference]]