Advisory committee chair says proposal will help state qualify for more research grants
By Colleen O’Dea
Is the president of Rutgers University willing to cede his school’s Camden campus to Rowan University?
The most accurate answer may be: It depends.
“Given a choice . . . I seriously doubt the board of trustees or the board of governors would want to give up Rutgers-Camden,” president Richard McCormick told a Senate hearing yesterday on the proposed restructuring of the state’s medical schools.
Yet McCormick also hinted that Rutgers might still give its approval to the merger if it meant the state university would take control over three central Jersey arms of the University of Medicine and Dentistry, whose restructuring is the focus of the plan.
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