Dr. Tillis, 55, will lead RU–Camden, the southernmost campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with more than 7,200 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in 39 undergraduate and 29 graduate programs. Tillis most recently served as interim president of the University of Houston–Downtown, a comprehensive urban institution. Widely known and respected in his own field and beyond, Tillis holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in Spanish literature from Howard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American literature (with an Afro-Hispanic emphasis) from the University of Missouri at Columbia. More.
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