Jonathan R. Alger is an American academic and the current president of James Madison University. Alger became the university’s sixth president on July 1, 2012. Alger is the sixth president since the university’s founding in 1908. He was formally inaugurated on March 15, 2013. Alger is also a scholar and speaker on higher education policy and law and currently co-teaches a seminar on leadership in the James Madison University Honors Program.