By Adam Clark | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University officials said they wanted State Senate President Steve Sweeney to leave campus Thursday afternoon with a sense that the university is “on the move.”

After touring the first building the university constructed with the help of the state’s $750 million higher education bond issue, Sweeney had that feeling and more, he said.

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The $116.8 million price tag will be covered in part by $43 million from the state’s bond.

Though Sweeney was impressed, he said the state’s investment should not be measured only in buildings. He hopes the updated facilities go a long way toward ending New Jersey’s annual exodus of high school graduates to colleges in other states.

“The one thing you don’t want to do is export them,” Sweeney said of students. “They are our future.

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