Jonathan Holloway will resign at the end of Rutgers' academic year, ending a tumultuous five years as president of New Jersey's largest university.

Holloway, Rutgers' first Black president, navigated several rocky years with a faculty strike and student protests.

From a historic strike to pro-Palestine protests and an athletic director’s resignation, the first African American president of one the nation’s largest universities faced controversy atop controversy over the past two years.