By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Trenton Bureau
TRENTON – The day that he took over as president of Rutgers University in September, Robert Barchi faced the organizational equivalent of building a giant skyscraper.
His mission was to bring most of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, a sprawling health sciences institution that trains medical and dental students and conducts scientific research, under the Rutgers umbrella – while reengineering its deficit-ridden Division I sports program.
And all of that in less than a year.
[…]Adrienne Eaton, a professor of labor studies and employment relations, said hopes were high among faculty and students when Barchi took over in September. Since then, she said, relations have soured.
“People are not warming up to him,” she said
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