Opponent and advocates want more details filled in on sketchy merger plan
By Joe Tyrrell
Ali Houshmand, acting president, Rowan University
With far more questions than answers, the legislature’s higher education committees brought Gov. Chris Christie’s dramatic but sketchy higher education plans to one of its chief beneficiaries, Rowan University in Glassboro.
But once Rowan administrators made their best pitch to take over Rutgers-Camden, hours of subsequent witnesses at the hearing in Rowan’s student center pounced on flaws in the proposal. Some, such as union representatives, politely pointed out the lack of basic information needed to make a decision, such as the costs to taxpayers and students.
Others were more vehement, especially Rutgers-Camden students and alumni.
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