TY - BOOK ID - 78143683 TI - Raised at Rutgers : a president's story PY - 2014 SN - 0813564751 9780813564753 0813564743 9780813564746 9780813564746 PB - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - College presidents KW - Presidents, College KW - University presidents KW - College administrators KW - Universities and colleges KW - Administration KW - McCormick, Richard L. KW - Rutgers University KW - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. KW - Rutgers--the State University KW - State University of New Jersey KW - Rutgers State University of New Jersey KW - University of Newark KW - Rutgers College KW - Presidents KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143683 AB - In Raised at Rutgers, Richard L. McCormick tells what it is like to run a major state university and vividly portrays the often contentious environment in which a university president operates today. He unsparingly recounts his decade of leadership, including his own missteps-those we know about and those we didn't-as he strove to obtain adequate resources for the university, to overhaul the often confusing organization of the New Brunswick campus, to manage the growth and success of intercollegiate athletics, and to deepen Rutgers's acceptance of its obligations as the state university of New Jersey. With understandable pride, McCormick recalls and relates Rutgers's academic achievements during his presidency, including a renewed focus on undergraduate education and a significant increase in funding for research. Most dramatically, he chronicles the University's protracted efforts to reclaim Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (and ultimately to acquire most of UMDNJ), a goal that was finally realized with crucial help from Governor Chris Christie and former governor Tom Kean. Among the most honest accounts ever written of a college presidency, Raised at Rutgers takes the reader inside one of the best, and liveliest, public universities in America and highlights many of the most critical issues facing higher education today. ER -