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NEW BRUNSWICK — Although there’s been no official order, it’s full steam ahead in planning for a proposal that would establish a medical school at Rutgers University.
“It is a complicated proposal,” Rutgers President Richard McCormick said of the proposed partial merger of medical facilities between Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
The reorganization, which has an “aggressive” target date of July 1, 2012, is not expected to lead to any significant faculty or staff layoffs or changes in salaries and tenure status, said Christopher J. Molloy, Rutgers’ interim provost for biomedical and health sciences.
Molloy, who gave a presentation to the Rutgers board of governors at Wednesday’s meeting, said the first objective is “to do no harm,” making sure there’s no interruption in education or accreditation issues.
Endorsed by Gov. Chris Christie, the proposal calls for three parts of UMDNJ’s New Brunswick-Piscataway campus — Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the School of Public Health and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey — to be merged with Rutgers.
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