99bet It’s Easy to See What Drove Jonathan Holloway to Quit

Last week Jonathan Holloway99bet, the president of Rutgers University, announced he would be stepping down at the end of this academic year — the latest in a series of university president departures.

Given the widespread discord and protests on campuses, the past academic year was tough for any college president. But unlike others who left their posts, like Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and Claudine Gay of Harvard, Holloway isn’t leaving the kind of elite institution that tends to attract outraged headlines and ire. Nor was he resigning in a heated moment of backlash or scandal.

So why did he do it?

“It’s a punishing job in normal times,” Holloway, a scholar of African American history, told me when I spoke to him last week. “But the standards we’re being held to are impossible. I had to ask myself, ‘What is it I want to do, how can I do it, and is this the right position?’”

Holloway, who previously served as a dean at Yale and a provost at Northwestern, said he struggled with how to balance the role of a college president today, which demands quick responses, with what he described as his own values — listening to people, carefully weighing potential actions and having the freedom to speak his mind.

The pressures on university leadership currently make delivering on those propositions extremely trying: The politics of accusation and the world of social media are seemingly out to wreak havoc. Problems don’t have clear solutions but need decisions anyway. Universities can’t respond at the pace of a tweet. You need time to determine facts and consult with many constituencies, especially at a massive state operation like Rutgers, which employs nearly 30,000 people and serves 67,620 students.

That’s all par for the course. But Holloway faced a hellish series of unfortunate events. His tenure began during the crisis of Covid and, after only a year’s respite, endured a protracted union conflict with university workers that ended with an intervention by Gov. Phil Murphy.

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