Fighting toxic crosscurrents from all directions, Holloway concluded that he didn’t sign up for needing a constant police detail.

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano is “sad” that university president Jonathan Holloway is stepping down, but he has “blind” trust that the school’s Board of Governors — led by chairwoman Amy Towers — “will do the search and get us a great president.

Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway will step down from his position after his contract expires at the end of the 2024-25 school year. Holloway, 57, said Tuesday he has been exhausted by a toxic political environment and ever-present demands of a major university president.

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.