By The Associated Press

Enlarge Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger Governor Chris Christie gets a high five with students at Trenton Catholic Academy in Hamilton where he discussed higher education on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger
Governor Chris Christie gets a high five with students at Trenton Catholic Academy in Hamilton where he discussed higher education on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie flatly rejected any alternative to Rutgers-Camden and Rowan merging today, such as a research consortium as suggested by a top lawmaker Monday.

“They’re gonna merge,” Christie said at a press conference in Hamilton.

On Monday, Senate President Stephen Sweeney told legislators at a panel on Rowan’s campus that he was open to other ideas, like a partnership or consortium.

But Christie today said he wasn’t open to a hybrid or any modifications to a plan that would fold Rutgers-Camden into Rowan University in Glassboro.

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