Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger. Second-year medical students at UMDNJ Perin Kothari and Matt Cully listen to speakers before the Assembly Budget Meeting at the Statehouse in Trenton last week.
By Kelly Heyboer and Steve Strunsky/The Star-Ledger
NEWARK — The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey began preparing for the beginning of the end Monday.
After more than four decades as the state’s health sciences university, the Newark-based school is slated to be broken up under higher education restructuring legislation approved in Trenton last week. Most of UMDNJ’s schools will be taken over by Rutgers University.
UMDNJ’s interim president joined Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex) at a press conference on the Newark campus Monday where they put a positive spin on the takeover.
They said the changes, including some last-minute provisions slipped into the legislation at the request of Essex County politicians, will help Newark and North Jersey in the long run.
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