Jonathan Alger is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he is as a member of the senior leadership team, oversees all legal affairs for the University, serves as chief compliance officer, and advises the governing boards and administration. He also teaches an undergraduate course on higher education law and a first-year seminar on diversity issues. Before coming to Rutgers, he was Assistant General Counsel at the University of Michigan, where he helped coordinate two landmark admissions lawsuits in the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Alger previously served as counsel for the national office of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in Washington, DC, and as an attorney-advisor in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. He began his professional career in the Labor and Employment Section at the international law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
Mr. Alger has given hundreds of presentations on higher education law and policy for institutions and organizations throughout the United States and in the UK, Germany, Canada, and the West Indies. He is First Vice President of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and a member of its Board of Directors. He also serves on advisory boards for the Association of American Universities, College Board Access and Diversity Collaborative, Sloan Foundation-funded American Association for the Advancement of Science Diversity Project, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Valuing Diversity initiative, and the University of Vermont’s annual national conference on “Legal Issues in Higher Education.” Mr. Alger graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School and High Honors from Swarthmore College.
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