College President Tackles Student Persistence, Campus Expansion: Dr. Carlos Hernandez has spent his entire career in higher education at New Jersey City University.And that doesn’t bother him one bit.
Hernandez joined the faculty at NJCU—then Jersey City State College—as a professor of psychology in 1972. Over the last 17 years as president, he has shepherded the largely commuter school of about 10,000 students through some monumental changes, including the achievement of university status and an increase in the number of minority students—specifically Latinos by 52.2 percent—on the urban campus.
