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=Jonathan R. Alger=

Jonathan R. Alger is the sixth and current president of James Madison University. Alger became JMU's sixth president on July 1, 2012. Alger is the sixth president since the university’s founding in 1908. He was formally inaugurated on March 15, 2013.

Alger is also a scholar and speaker on higher education policy and law and currently co-teaches a seminar on leadership in the JMU Honors Program.

Career
Before becoming president at JMU, Alger was the senior vice president and general counsel at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Before working at Rutgers, Alger served as assistant general counsel at the University of Michigan, where he played a key role in in the university’s efforts in two landmark Supreme Court cases on diversity and admissions and coordinated one of the largest amicus brief coalitions in Supreme Court history.

At both Rutgers and Michigan, he taught courses, seminars and independent studies in law, higher education and public policy. He has also taught interdisciplinary courses for graduate students in law, education, public policy and information.

Prior to his time at University of Michigan, he served as counsel for the American Association of University Professors, where he advised institutions on policies, procedures and cases on issues such as academic freedom, shared governance, tenure, due process and discrimination.

Earlier in his career he served as attorney-advisor for the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. He also previously served as an associate in the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Because of Alger’s background in civil rights law, he has been credited with understanding the intricacies of how the Office for Civil Rights interprets and enforces Title IX.

Academic career
Alger was a Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore College where he received his B.A. with high honors in political science with a history minor and a concentration in public policy. He earned his juris doctorate with honors from Harvard Law School.

Boards, memberships and service
Current appointments:
 * Board Member, Division I Board of Directors for the National Collegiate Athletic Association

Past appointments:
 * President, Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys
 * Board Member, The American Bar Association’s Accreditation Committee
 * Board Member, The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health

Published works

 * Foreword for The Role of Intelligence in Ending the War in Bosnia in 1995
 * “A Supreme Challenge: Achieving the Educational and Society Benefits of Diversity After the Supreme Court’s Fisher Decision,” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
 * “From Desegregation to Diversity and Beyond: Our Evolving Legal Conversation on Race and Higher Education,” Journal of College and University Law
 * Weapons on Campus: Are We a Special Context?”, Leadership Exchange (NASPA/Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education: Winter 2009).
 * “Colleges Must Be Forearmed With Effective Policies on Weapons,” The Chronicle of Higher Education
 * “Effective Practices for Academic Leaders," Legal Issues for Academic Leaders
 * “Putting the Michigan Rulings into Practice,” The Chronicle of Higher Education
 * “You’ve Got to Have Friends: Lessons Learned from the Role of Amici in the University of Michigan Cases,” Journal of College and University Law

Personal history and family
Alger was born and raised outside Rochester, N.Y. His wife, Mary Ann, has a B.S. from Auburn University and an M.B.A. from the University of Miami. The Algers have a daughter named Eleanor.

Alger has sung with acclaimed choral groups that have toured internationally, made professional recordings and performed on national television.