By James Osborne, Inquirer Staff Writer
Gov. Christie offered a proposal Wednesday to overhaul the state’s university system, merging schools from Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry, and creating a research university in South Jersey.
Rowan University – just 20 years ago a former teachers’ college known as Glassboro State – would take over Rutgers-Camden. The combined campus would include a soon-to-open medical school affiliated with Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
The mergers would represent a historic change to the structure of higher education in New Jersey. Whole institutions would shift between universities, and schools with decades of history and extensive alumni networks would disappear in name.
And staff at the universities, hospitals, and affiliated institutions – which numbers in the thousands – could face layoffs as programs are reconfigured.
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