
JUNE 9, 2015, 7:01 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015, 7:40 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — You might think that after earning her fifth academic degree, Rosa Oppenheim would have taken some time off to relax.
Not this longtime Ridgewood resident and Rutgers Business School professor.
In May, mere days after receiving her third master’s degree, Oppenheim, 65, hopped on a plane bound for Singapore, where she’s spent the last few weeks teaching an international business class.
“I do try to make the most of my time,” said Oppenheim, who chairs Rutgers’ Department of Supply Chain Management and Marketing Sciences. “An old friend remarked a long time ago that my epitaph should be, ‘She never wasted a minute.’”
A continual learner, Oppenheim earned her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Brooklyn’s Polytechnic University in 1970. A year later, she completed her master’s in operations research at the same institution. Then, in 1973, she was awarded a doctorate from Polytechnic and joined Rutgers as an assistant professor.
“Although busy with teaching, research, and a young family, I had always loved being a student and literature had always been a passion that I wasn’t able to pursue in a rigorous, and rigid, engineering curriculum,” Oppenheim said.
So, upon reaching tenure in 1980, Oppenheim decided to enroll in the master’s program in English at Rutgers. She took one course a semester, and in 1985, had a second master’s degree under her belt.
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