Welcome to the 2010–11 Academic Year at Rutgers

September 1, 2010

Dear Students:

First, let me join Chancellor Pritchett in welcoming all our new students to the university community. We are very glad that you have chosen Rutgers. We hope that you will take advantage of all the resources available at the university, starting with our superb faculty, and have a deeply rewarding experience, both in and outside the classroom.

To all our returning students, and especially those who will be earning a degree this academic year, welcome back! We hope you have had a wonderful summer.

As the 2010–11 academic year begins, there are several new people and programs of note on the Camden Campus:

• Jai Ganesh takes over as dean of the Rutgers School of Business–Camden, the fourth dean in the school's history.
   
• For the first time, students have enrolled in the four-year nursing program—soon to be our School of Nursing—directly from high school.
   
• We welcome the first students to the Ph.D. programs in computational and integrative biology and in public affairs.

The university will be conducting a national search for a new permanent dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while we continue to benefit from the outstanding leadership of executive dean Margaret Marsh and interim dean Michael Palis. Let me also take this opportunity to thank School of Law dean Rayman Solomon for serving as executive dean of the School of Business during the term of that search.

As I do each year, I encourage you to attend my Annual Address to the University Community, which will take place Friday, September 24, at 1:10 p.m. at the University Senate meeting in the Rutgers Student Center on College Avenue on the New Brunswick Campus. If you cannot attend, the address will be webcast at http://www.president.rutgers.edu/address10.shtml.

I hope this is a year of discovery, excitement, and joy for each of you—and I thank you again for choosing Rutgers.

Richard L. McCormick
President
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey