The president of New Jersey’s flagship university says he will step down next year. Jonathan Holloway became the first Black president of Rutgers University when he took office in the summer of 2020.

Holloway, the university's the first Black president, will take a year-long sabbatical and then become a Rutgers professor.

The president of Rutgers University has announced he will resign next summer. Jonathan Holloway would have completed five years in that role on June 30, 2025. He is the university’s 21st president. “This decision is my own and reflects my own rumination about how best to be of service,

The Rutgers University president, who led the school through the pandemic and Palestinian solidarity camps, will return to academia.