Jonathan Alger

Vice President and General Counsel, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jonathan Alger is Vice President and General Counsel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he oversees all legal affairs for the University and advises its 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. 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 law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Alger has given hundreds of presentations on higher education law and policy for institutions and organizations throughout the United States and in Canada, Germany, and the West Indies. He is the current Second Vice President nominee for the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and has previously served on its Board of Directors. He serves on advisory boards or teams for the College Board Access and Diversity Collaborative, Association of American Universities, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Valuing Diversity initiative, and the University of Vermont’s annual national conference on “Legal Issues in Higher Education.” Alger graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School and High Honors from Swarthmore College.