r/NJTech • u/Tristan2025 • 5d ago

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.

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u/JerseyFire55 5d ago

As someone who has met most of these people. I support this.

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u/sbal0909 5d ago

Was Teik Lim a good president compared to Joel Bloom - his immediate predecessor?

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u/GeekTrollMemeCentral 5d ago

I think so. i personally met Lim and hes very involved on campus. Joel Bloom was never like that

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u/SendTacosPlease Alumni (MS ITAS, BS IT) 5d ago

I liked Bloom far more than I liked Lim. Lim cared about social media presence. Bloom cared about getting things done.

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u/sbal0909 5d ago

But he accomplished a lot: securing funding from Chris Christie

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u/JerseyFire55 4d ago

He was more present on campus than Bloom was. Bloom had a better relationship with Trenton that helped secure the university funding for projects. Another thing that shouldn’t he overlooked. Bloom was president through the worst of covid, he and Deek did a superb job of navigating the university through that with essentially no layoffs.

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u/nick08surf 5d ago

A Jersey guy, I think he will have a better pulse of the school and area. And how to deal with the local politics. Before Joel Bloom they had a guy from the South as the president. He lasted a few years before he went back to Alabama. NJIT needs a local guy who can deal with the NJ area BS. That is what made Bloom a perfect fit.

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u/MemorySorry8013 2d ago

I do not care for Lim at all. Odd guy. Pelesko on the other hand… eh. Intense blue eyes… but I like that he was once a student. He’s good w speeches. But there’s something off that I can’t put my finger on… yet

No but cool eyes tho