The protests that have swept Rutgers-Camden since Gov. Christie announced last month that he planned to merge the school into Rowan University reached a crescendo Wednesday as opposition spread beyond the small inner-city campus to Rutgers faculty and students across the state.
Students from the university’s flagship campus in New Brunswick were bused in ahead of a board of governors meeting on the Camden campus. The president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly rallied students outside the library, while a faculty member of the university Senate spoke to oppose the plan, calling it “ill-advised.”
“I don’t think they foresaw the overwhelming opposition from the entire Rutgers faculty,” said Jeanne Fox, a Rutgers trustee and a commissioner of the state Board of Public Utilities. “I can’t imagine [the board of trustees] going against the faculty.”
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