Mordechai Rozanski (b. 1946) became Rider University’s sixth president on August 1, 2003. In his first year, he has built upon both the foundation of his predecessors and Rider’s rich history. Rider University is a private university located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. ...

President Rozanski’s 30-year record of higher education leadership includes service at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Wagner College, on Staten Island, New York until his appointment as president of the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada, where he served from 1993 to 2003. During his tenure as Guelph’s president, President Rozanski led the University to national prominence as Canada’s top rated comprehensive university on three occasions; academic and research excellence among its faculty, students, staff and programs; and two successful capital campaigns, increasing Guelph’s endowment by 300 percent. Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded in 1942. ... Wagner College is a college located on Staten Island. ... Established in 1964, the University of Guelph is a moderately sized university located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. ...

President Rozanski’s life story evokes his philosophy that education has the power to transform lives. Born in Poland, the son of Holocaust survivors, his family fled to Israel, lived in France and immigrated to Montreal in 1953. Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II, starting in 1941 and continuing through 1945. ...

He was the first in the family to complete elementary school and went on to study at McGill University in Montreal, earning a B.A. in Chinese history and a Ph.D. in Chinese history/American East Asian relations at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. He variously held summer fellowships at Columbia University and Stanford University and a year-long fellowship in Chinese language studies and research in Hong Kong. McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn, although the former is the preferred and recognized nickname of the University) is a private university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a member of the Ivy League. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ...

President Rozanski held the rank of professor and taught Chinese and Asian history at several universities and colleges. He has published and lectured on Chinese history, Chinese-American relations, international education, higher education, and other related topics.