Mordechai Rozanski (born 1946) served as Rider University’s sixth president from August 1, 2003, until he retired on July 31, 2015.
During Rozanski’s presidency, Rider University introduced fourteen new undergraduate and seven graduate degrees that helped grow overall enrollment by 8%.
Rozanski considers his greatest legacy to be the more than 45,000 students who graduated during his 22 years as a university president, 13,000 at Rider alone.
Born in Poland, the son of Holocaust survivors, Rozanski's family fled to Israel, lived in France and immigrated to Montreal in 1953.
Rozanski received American citizenship on January 19, 2008, making him a dual citizen of both Canada and the United States of America.