Jonathan R. Alger

Jonathan Alger is Vice President and General Counsel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he oversees legal affairs for the University’s three campuses in New Brunswick/Piscataway, Newark, and Camden. Before coming to Rutgers, he was Assistant General Counsel at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, Mr. Alger coordinated two landmark admissions lawsuits in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as legal work in areas such as intellectual property, cyberspace law, and media rights. He has also taught courses on higher education law and intellectual property and information law. Mr. Alger previously served as counsel for the national office of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in Washington, D.C., and as an attorney-advisor in the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. He began his professional career in the Labor and Employment Section at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Alger is a well-known speaker and author in higher education and has given hundreds of presentations throughout the United States and in Canada, Germany, and the West Indies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, as well as the Board of Advisors for the University of Vermont’s annual conference on “Legal Issues in Higher Education.” Mr. Alger graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School, and with High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College and its External Examinations Program.