By James Osborne, Inquirer Staff Writer

Standing in a dense crowd of students and faculty in the lobby of Rowan University’s Wilson Hall on Friday, marketing professor Berhe Habte-Giorgis was ecstatic.

After a week of listening to the university – his home for more than 20 years – dismissed by some at Rutgers-Camden as a second-rate institution, Giorgis was pleased to see interim president Ali Houshmand bring the campus together to remind it of what a merger with Rutgers could mean.

“When I came here we were still Glassboro State, but look how far we’ve come since then,” he said after the question-and-answer session. “All this talk about Rowan, it’s unbecoming.”

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