Interim President Ali A. Houshmand told the Student Government Association that the “Rowan University name will remain the same” and “Glassboro…will become the main campus,” according to minutes of a November 21, 2011 meeting posted on Rowan’s website.
But it wasn’t until December 1 that Rutgers-Camden Chancellor Wendell Pritchett appeared before the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Advisory Committee, also known as the Barer Committee. It recommended the merger as part of a statewide higher education reorganization plan, dated January 25, 2012 — the day of Christie’s announcement.
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