Preceded by Mason W. Gross Succeeded by Francis L. Lawrence | Name Edward Bloustein Phone +1 848-932-5475 | |
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Born January 20, 1925
Bronx, New York ( 1925-01-20 ) Died December 9, 1989(1989-12-09) (aged 64)
Nassau, Bahamas Spouse(s) Ruth Ellen Steinman (1923-1988) Relations Francis Bloustein, brother Alma mater New York University
Cornell University (B.A, J.D) Role University in New Brunswick, New Jersey Address 33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States Similar Rutgers University–New Brunswick, School of Environmental and Biolo, Ernest Mario School of, Rutgers University, Rutgers School of Nursing | ||
Edward j bloustein school nexus of planning and public policy
Edward J. Bloustein (January 20, 1925 – December 9, 1989) was the seventeenth President of Rutgers University serving from 1971 to 1989.
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- Edward j bloustein school nexus of planning and public policy
- New majors at the edward j bloustein school of planning and public policy
- Biography
- Legacy
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New majors at the edward j bloustein school of planning and public policy
Biography
He was born in New York City, and he graduated from James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1942. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in 1948 and subsequently traveled to the University of Oxford as a Fulbright scholar and received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1950. Returning to the United States, he taught philosophy briefly at Brooklyn College and spent close to a year in Washington, DC with the Office of Intelligence in the State Department, where he served as a political analyst, specializing in Marxist theory and international political movements in the German Democratic Republic. Later, Bloustein earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1954 from Cornell University, and entered Cornell Law School earning a Bachelor of Laws in 1959. During that time, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Law Review.
Bloustein began his professional career as a law clerk to Judge Stanley H. Fuld of the New York State Court of Appeals, serving from 1959 to 1961. He then joined the faculty of the New York University School of Law until 1965, when he was named president of Bennington College. In 1971, following the retirement of Mason Welch Gross he was appointed president of Rutgers University.
During his tenure as President of Rutgers University, Bloustein implemented programs that expanded the institution's research facilities, attracted internationally known scholars to the faculty, and achieved distinction as one of the major public research universities in the nation, leading to an invitation for Rutgers to join the Association of American Universities. Bloustein died in the Bahamas on December 9, 1989.
Legacy
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers–New Brunswick is named in his honor.