What lately looks like a lull should not be seen as a sign New Jersey’s university merger mania has abated.
As we speak, perhaps even as we sleep, one group of politicos is struggling to meet Chris Christie’s July 1 deadline for executing the forced divorce between Rutgers University and its Camden campus, thereby enabling a shotgun marriage between Rutgers-Camden and Rowan universities.
As you may have heard, our globetrotting governor insists that disrupting thousands of lives and livelihoods simply must happen so he can dismantle the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and divvy up the goodies.
Why amputating Rutgers-Camden is necessary in order to implement the more sensible components of Christie’s mega-plan is beyond me. I’ve heard the governor has decreed that Rutgers-New Brunswick must let go of Camden in order to obtain UMDNJ’s medical school — as if, say, Kean or Farleigh Dickinson also were being considered for that prize.
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