Wanda Rutledge

Wanda L. Rutledge, Ph.D. is the first Assistant Dean and first director of graduate business programs for the School of Business at New Jersey City University (NJCU), and the former founding chair of the management department. An entrepreneur, sports management and sports marketing consultant, she has more than 30 years of experience as a senior global non-profit sports management executive, working on four Summer and one Winter Olympic Games. She formerly held the position of Deputy Executive Director for USA Baseball and President of the National Council of Youth Sports for more than 25 years. She has served as the Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for NJCU to the NCAA since 2017. In her first year as director of graduate business programs, Dr. Rutledge revamped the MBA, expanded the School of Business collaboration with Harvard Business School Online, secured the first corporate pipeline partnership with Fidelity Investments for employee graduate degrees, and launched graduate business programs at the university’s new location at NJCU @ Fort Monmouth in Monmouth County, New Jersey.