Tonya Smith-Jackson, the current provost and vice chancellor at a land grant research university in North Carolina, was named Thursday to be the next Chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark. Her appointment, which was unanimously approved by the Rutgers Board of Governors, was announced jointly by outgoing Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway and incoming President William F. Tate IV. At the virtual meeting, Holloway said the search committee had an unusually easy time coming to an agreement on Smith-Jackson as their pick. “You are coming into this community with a wave of enthusiasm for those who have met you,” Holloway said addressing Smith-Jackson who
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