Jeffrey Toney

Jeffrey Toney (Col ’81 CM) is currently Professor Emeritus at Kean University, where he previously served as the Senior Vice President for Research as well as Provost and Chief Academic Officer. He concurrently serves as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Toney is a Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, and has served on the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science and Human Rights Coalition since its founding in 2009. He has also published a wide range of peer-reviewed scientific publications and holds six U.S. patents.

Jeffrey Toney (Col ’81) has served as the chief academic officer at Kean University since 2011 and is currently provost and vice president for research and faculty. He was named visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy and Linguistics at MIT in June 2019, and he will be visiting scholar at Harvard University beginning June 2020.