New faculty members highlight growth at New Jersey’s premier business school
October 22, 2009
22 new faculty members join Rutgers Business School in 2009See RBS Highlight for profiles of new faculty members.In the highly competitive world of faculty recruitment, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) is proud to announce the addition of 22 new faculty members with impressive track records to the RBS faculty. A few of these new faculty members are Rutgers alumni and the rest graduated from other premier schools around the country.With wide-ranging research backgrounds and strong industry experience, these new faculty members support the RBS unique multidisciplinary approach to business education: delivering the business, science and technology credentials to drive local, national, and global markets. By expanding the scope of business education to include other disciplines, students receive an unrivaled, well-rounded business education that breaks the mold.The faculty list is not the only thing growing at RBS. Student enrollment has increased and in fall 2009, the entire school moved into a new, state-of-the-art headquarters at 1 Washington Park in Newark. The new building has substantially improved the quality of the school’s facilities and classroom technology, while expanding its capacity to meet the rapidly increasing demand for business education and the needs of growing undergraduate and graduate student bodies.New faculty come from major universitiesBoston University (2) Columbia UniversityCornell UniversityNational University of SingaporeNJIT Pace UniversityPurdue UniversityRutgers University (3)S. Illinois University, CarbondaleThe Ohio State University (2)Tulane University University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Chicago (2)University of FloridaUniversity of MassachusettsYale University (2) By Hannah Redmondhredmond@business.rutgers.edu