Talent development starts in the trenches, saysRutgers University’s Courtney McAnuff, who grew up in a low-income neighborhood.He has dedicated his career to preparing a more diverse future workforce through higher education and has expanded those goals to reach students at the high-school level. The heart of what he does is the Rutgers Future Scholarsprogram.
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 it only took them 15 minutes to review it and give the go-ahead.”
