LEADERSHIP
Rutgers Future Scholars
Creating Educational
Opportunity
Courtney
McAnuff
BY STACY STRACZYNSKI
The vice president
for enrollment
management at
Rutgers University
is leading efforts
to provide
motivation and
educational
foundations for
students with
potential—before
they start applying
to college.
When it comes to the war for tal- ent, Courtney McAnuff is down in the trenches. He has dedicated his career to preparing a more
diverse future workforce through higher educa-
tion and has expanded those goals to reach stu-
dents at the high-school level. The heart of what
he does is the Rutgers Future Scholars program.
An Ambitious Proposal
When the vice president for enrollment management at Rutgers University
first presented his proposal for the Rutgers Future Scholars program to
Rutgers Chairman Rev. Dr. M. William Howard Jr. and President Richard
McCormick, he didn’t think it would ever get approved. “It was so expensive
and ambitious,” recalls McAnuff. (Costs approached $2 million in 2011.) “But
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