Kenneth C. Rogers

In August 1987 the United States Senate confirmed Rogers' appointment by Ronald Reagan as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The hearing for his appointment feel under the Environment and Public Works Committee in the preceding July and membership included Bill Bradley and Frank Lautenberg. Rogers ended his presence at the Institute after thirty years and immediately moved to Washington and remains there to present day.

Prior to becoming president of Stevens, Rogers was head of the Physics Department and obtained sizable grants under the last years of the Davis administration; a factor that largely led to him being chosen. Within his first two years in office the number of nontenured faculty was cut by ten-percent. Shortly there after the University followed a national trend in huge drops in graduate enrollment between 1968 and 1974, following the end of the Vietnam War. At the same time, the independent corporate "Stevens Alumni Association" attempted to raise funds in parallel with an initiative by the Board of Trustees and President." Both initiatives suffered as a result of the other and in 1973 the Association amended its bylaws to put "contributions to the [Association run] Stevens Fund under the direction of the Institute" and that said funds would "flow directly into the treasury of Stevens. Later that decade faculty of Stevens would become disgruntled and strike but be assuaged to come back under the pretense of the creation of a Faculty Council.

Kenneth Cannicott Rogers (born March 21, 1929) was the 5th president of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.