Edward Jerome Bloustein (January 20, 1925 – December 9, 1989) was the 17th President of
Rutgers University serving from 1971 to 1989.
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
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and received a
Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1950. Returning to the United States, he taught philosophy briefly at
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Being New York City's first publ ...
and spent close to a year in Washington, DC with the
Office of Intelligence in the
State Department
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, where he served as a political analyst, specializing in
Marxist theory
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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
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earning a
Bachelor of Laws in 1959. During that time, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the ''
Cornell Law Quarterly
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''.
Bloustein began his professional career as a
law clerk
A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person, generally someone who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court. Judicial clerks often play significant ...
to Judge
Stanley H. Fuld
Stanley Howells Fuld (August 23, 1903 – July 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1967 to 1973.
Life
Born in Manhattan, New York City, Fuld was the son of Eman ...
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
Mason Welch Gross (June 3, 1911 – October 11, 1977) was an United States of America, American television quiz show personality and academic who served as the sixteenth University president, President of Rutgers University, serving from 195 ...
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.
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Legacy
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers–New Brunswick is named in his honor. The Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar
Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars are recognized as the highest achieving graduating high school students in or from New Jersey and are granted awards regardless of need.
Students are selected on the basis of the following criteria:
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is named in his honor. Th
Bloustein Lecture in Law and Ethics
hosted by th
Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy
and funded by a gift Bloustein made t
Rutgers Law School
is also named in his honor.
References
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1925 births
1989 deaths
New York University faculty
New York University School of Law faculty
Presidents of Rutgers University
Cornell Law School alumni
People from the Bronx
James Monroe High School (New York City) alumni
Presidents of Bennington College
Brooklyn College faculty
20th-century American academics