‘Look Into Yourself to Gain Strength’: Former College President on the Importance of Resilience

From growing up the child of Jewish Yankee parents in the Deep South city of Florala, Alabama, to becoming the president of The College of New Jersey, Barbara Gitenstein shares her story with NTD. The author of “Experience Is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic” tells of the need to be resilient in the face of cultural and health-related challenges within the family, and recommends the following to young people: “Look into yourself to gain strength.”