In any successful organization, alignment is essential from the top all the way down. This is not a concept that has ever come easily at Rutgers. In the university’s defense, it’s as complicated an institution of higher learning as there is for many reasons including location, size, and politics to name a few. However, a lack of transparency and internal fighting in public over the years has certainly created issues that Rutgers has been challenged in overcoming.
There has not been a more polarizing issue at Rutgers over the years than athletics spending and no more vocal opponent of it than its own faculty.