The Rutgers Board of Governors took the following actions at its December 14, 2010, meeting:
Three Rutgers Professors Honored for Distinction
The board named Joseph R. Blasi the inaugural holder of the J. Robert Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership at Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations. Blasi, who came to Rutgers in 1989, studies employee stock ownership, broad-based stock options, profit-sharing, and the social and economic history of the corporation. Read the full release.
The board named Alan Prince Board of Governors Professor of Linguistics. Prince is the graduate program director in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences. He teaches and conducts research in the field of phonology, the study of sound structure and its relation to word structure. Read the full release
The board named Alan Sadovnik a Distinguished Service Professor. Sadovnik, a professor of education, sociology and public administration and affairs, is a scholar in the sociology of education on the faculty of the School of Public Affairs and Administration and the Department of Urban Education. Read the full release.
Honorary Naming of Facility
The board approved the naming of the Rutgers University Science and Engineering Resource Center on Busch Campus as the “T. Alexander Pond Science and Engineering Resource Center.”
Pond served Rutgers from 1982 to 1989 as executive vice president and chief academic officer, and from 1989 to 1990 as acting president.
The visionary leader and physicist had a monumental impact on the development of excellence at the university. Pond died August 29, 2010, at his home in Vermont.
Restoration of Stained Glass Windows
The board authorized the university’s application for matching funds for the Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Chapel stained glass restoration. The chapel is one of the best known landmarks on the Queens Campus.