New Rutgers University Alumni Association (RUAA) chair wants to ensure more than 600,000 Rutgers alumni feel connected to and welcome at their alma mater. Talib Morgan didn’t speak to many people when he carried his bag stuffed with books across campus as a freshman at Rutgers University–Newark in 1991. Morgan at the Rutgers Business School commencement in Newark in 1998“Having his support was critical to my success,” Morgan says. His mother, Pamela, an educational administrator who served as an assistant to the superintendent of the Newark Public School District, also was a major influence. When Morgan was a student at Abraham Clark High School in Roselle, he applied and was accepted to the Rutgers School of Engineering in New Brunswick and to Rutgers–Newark.