Status Report of Rutgers Comprehensive Communications ...

Presidential Leadership
President McCormick continued to advocate for Rutgers and to serve as a higher education
thought leader through speaking engagements with public policy and business leaders as
well as in key media outlets, including:
an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Home News Tribune on the Rutgers Future
Scholars Program;
a “Grand Rounds” PowerPoint presentation to physicians and medical staff at St. Peter’s
Hospital on “Rutgers and Health Care”;
a Star-Ledger op-ed on the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, entitled “Lincoln’s Leadership
Undiminished 200 Years Later”;
an essay on the benefits of campus diversity featured in the March/April 2009 issue of
DiversityInc magazine; and
a Bergen Record op-ed on the impact of the 2008 election on science, entitled “New
Administration, Congress Return Science to the Front Burner.”
In addition, more than 150 stories featuring President McCormick’s role as a regional and
national leader in higher education appeared in the media. The most prominent was a
Chronicle of Higher Education article about the President’s decision to donate his $100,000
performance bonus back to the university to support student financial aid.
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