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File photo of a Rutgers police officer speaking to motorists on College Farm Road as Hurricane Sandy approached New Jersey last year. Patti Sapone/The Star-Ledger

By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger

NEW BRUNSWICK — When Hurricane Sandy hit last year, Rutgers University did a good job following its emergency plan and evacuating thousands of students. But the state’s largest university made several key mistakes — including failing to communicate well with its faculty, staff and students, according to an internal report.

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Lucye Millerand, head of the Rutgers faculty union, criticized university officials last month for not publicly releasing the report.

“Neither the data, nor the conclusions, nor the recommendations seem to be available to those of us who were, shall we say, the subjects of this inquiry. Does that make sense? Can we, as a community, effectively prepare for the next emergency without the knowledge of what went right and wrong?” Millerand, president of the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers, wrote in a letter published in the Daily Targum, the campus newspaper.

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