The late Clement Alexander Price, the Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History.

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Photography: 
Nick Romanenko

At the conclusion of the 35th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture in February, always one of the highpoints of the year  at Rutgers University–Newark for attracting top scholars, who address overflow crowds on the issue of race, Rutgers president Robert Barchi had an announcement. The lecture’s sponsoring organization, the esteemed Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, would now bear the name of the man who cofounded it: the late Clement Alexander Price, the Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History. Since the untimely death of Price GSNB’75 on November 5, 2014, at age 69, more than $5 million in donations has been given to support the Clement Alexander Price Endowment for the Humanities at Rutgers–Newark. Four members of the Rutgers community gave $1 million each: Rutgers–Newark chancellor Nancy Cantor and her husband, Steve Brechin; Paul V. Profeta, founder of the Profeta Urban Investment Foundation at Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick; Marc E. Berson RC’66, NLAW’68; and Raymond G. Chambers SB’64.