TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday proposed turning a former teacher’s college into New Jersey’s second major public research university under a planned major realignment of the state’s higher education system intended to raise the standing of the flagship Rutgers University and other institutions from “good to great.”
Fast-growing Rowan University in southern New Jersey, which 20 years ago was largely a teacher’s college known as Glassboro State College, would take over the Camden campus of Rutgers University, including its law school.
Rutgers, whose main campuses are 30 miles from New York, would absorb parts of the scandal-stained University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, gaining a medical school. The remaining parts of UMDNJ would get a new name: the New Jersey Health Sciences University.
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