Interim NJIT President Announced

The NJIT Board of Trustees announced today (June 11, 2026) that Dr. John A. Pelesko, NJIT’s current Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, was appointed to serve as NJIT's Interim President, effective August 4, 2026. Pelesko is a mathematician - he received his Ph.D. degree from NJIT in 1997. He taught mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology, and computing and mathematical sciences at California Institute of Technology. Since 2002 he was a faculty member at the University of Delaware, where he became in time dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He joined NJIT as provost on August 1, 2023.