President Holloway has some fun with the Scarlet Knight on stage at Excellence Fest, a community street festival featuring performances, games, food, and music, held on Thursday, November 4.

Jonathan Holloway poses with the cheerleading squad at Excellence Fest.

During Excellence Fest, student Dylan Sadiq (SOE '22) uses Rubik’s Cubes to create a portrait of President Holloway.

President Holloway poses with students for selfies at Excellence Fest.

Guests pose with President Holloway at the beginning of the Inauguration Dinner held in the President’s Tent the evening before the ceremony.

Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, speaks with President Holloway, his wife Aisling Colón, and another guest at the Inauguration Dinner.

The academic panel and webinar "…In Service to the Common Good" includes (l to r) Thomas H. Kean, former governor of New Jersey; Joan Gabel, president, University of Minnesota; Rajiv Vinnakota, president, Institute for Citizens and Scholars; and President Holloway as moderator.

Medical students display their Excellence T-shirts at the inauguration watch party held on Busch campus.

The inauguration processional participants include Rutgers faculty and staff and delegates of other colleges and universities from New Jersey and across the nation.

Chair of the Board of Governors Mark Angelson offers welcoming remarks to the inauguration audience.

On behalf of Rutgers students, Susan Badia, Class of 2022 and recipient of a Scarlet Promise Grant, delivers remarks at the inauguration.

New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy delivers remarks.

Rutgers University Voorhees Choir sings the hymn "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" under the direction of Brandon Williams.

Dwight McBride, president of The New School, gives the keynote address and leads the audience in the first verse of the Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," in an emotional moment during the ceremony.

Tilak Lal, chair of the Board of Trustees, presents the Presidential Medallion to Jonathan Scott Holloway.

Daughter Emerson Holloway and wife Aisling Colón at the inaugural ceremony.

Jonathan Scott Holloway delivers his inaugural address, sharing, “When I look at Rutgers, I want to see a place that aspires boldly to be both a leading engine of world-changing research and a vehicle for social mobility for students across the socioeconomic spectrum. This is what excellence looks like.”

President Holloway thanks the Rutgers community as he finishes his inaugural address.

President Holloway receives a standing ovation at the conclusion of his inaugural address.

The Rutgers University Glee Club performs "On the Banks of the Old Raritan," Rutgers’ alma mater, with Patrick Gardner conducting.

Kimberlee Pastva, secretary of the university, carries the university mace, an ornamental staff symbolizing the authority of the president, and leads the recessional at the end of the ceremony.