Chris Agans

Chris Agans is Executive Director of New Jersey’s Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons consortium. He leads the NJ-STEP administrative team and oversees the delivery of NJ-STEP’s B.A. Program in Justice Studies. In this role he has managed the coordination of services for students attending college in New Jersey’s prisons and their bridge to college in the community since 2017. Prior to this he led the development of the transitional supports for formerly incarcerated students on Rutgers University campuses (now known as the “Rutgers Mountainview Communities” or MVCs) and facilitated their expansion across the Rutgers system over a five year period. Chris is the former Director of the federally funded TRIO Student Support Services program for Rutgers New Brunswick. There he managed all aspects of academic support services for low-income, first-generation college students. He has served at Rutgers since 1999 in a wide variety of  roles and is a graduate of both Rutgers College (B.A. English) and Rutgers Graduate School of Education (E.d.M. Educational Administration).