October 8, 2007

Trustees of NYU and Polytechnic U. Will Vote on Merger This Week

By Katiherine Mangan

More than three decades after New York University disbanded its engineering school, sending dozens of faculty members to what is now Polytechnic University, trustees of both universities are expected to vote this week on a merger that would reclaim an engineering school for NYU and give the financially strapped technical university the clout of the NYU name.

While some small colleges and vocational schools have turned to mergers, or, at the very least, joint academic programs

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