Christie Calls for Restructuring of Research Universities

Governor plans to create N.J. Health Sciences University in Newark, merge Rutgers-Camden into Rowan University

By Mark J. Magyar

Sol J. Barer, chairman of the UMDNJ Advisory Committee

Governor Christie yesterday outlined a sweeping overhaul of higher education that would create a New Jersey Health Sciences University in Newark to replace UMDNJ, place Newark’s University Hospital under nonprofit management, and fold Rutgers-Camden and its law school into Rowan University to give South Jersey its own research university.

Combined with the shift of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the School of Public Health from UMDNJ to Rutgers University in New Brunswick last fall, Christie’s plan represents the most important restructuring of New Jersey’s higher education system since the creation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1970.

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