By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger

NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University today named six alumni and board members to a task force that will study whether to overhaul the state university’s governance.

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The Rutgers Board of Trustees would be eliminated under legislation proposed by Senate President Steve Sweeney. In this file photo, the trustees meet with the Rutgers Board of Governors in New Brunswick last year. Patti Sapone/ The Star-Ledger
Rutgers officials said last month they would form a group to study ways to improve the university’s governing board system. The seven-member group will be headed by the Rev. M. William Howard Jr., pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Newark and a former chairman of the Rutgers Board of Governors.

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