By Barbara Boyer, Inquirer Staff Writer
CAMDEN The growth of Camden’s medical corridor and academic expansion through a Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University partnership moved forward Monday with a full governing board being appointed and given broad power to act quickly.
The creation of the Rowan University/Rutgers-Camden Board of Governors grew out of a 2012 legislative attempt – contentious at times – to merge the two campuses. Under a compromise, Rutgers and Rowan remain independent but partners in “meds and eds,” which officials of each school on Monday vowed to support.
University officials and board members said they wanted research opportunities for faculty and students to try to attract biomedical grants and expansion, similar to the collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University in West Philadelphia.
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