By Nic Corbett/The Star-LedgerIt wasn’t exactly the merger they had in mind.
Faculty at Rutgers University’s law schools in Camden and Newark have been talking about becoming one institution, but that concept has now been complicated by a proposed takeover of the Rutgers-Camden campus by Rowan University.
In a letter to the Rutgers president last week, Camden law school instructors said they recently met to discuss the next steps toward increased cooperation between the two schools. The ultimate goal would be to create “Rutgers Law,” which would have a presence in New Brunswick — the university’s largest campus — and raise the national stature of Rutgers’ legal education.
“Accepting the committee’s merger recommendation would not simply undo all of the progress that we have made in the service of Rutgers on this front, it would preempt this extraordinary opportunity for the university,” the faculty wrote in the letter to Rutgers President Richard McCormick and the chairmen of the university’s two governing boards.
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