New Jersey Governor Revives Plan to Merge State Universities

January 4, 2011, 3:27 pm

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey today unveiled a report with more than 70 recommendations on how to overhaul the state’s higher-education system. But the centerpiece of the report, compiled by a panel of college and business leaders appointed by the Republican governor, was a proposal to merge Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Similar recommendations, in 2003 and in 2006, to merge those institutions fell flat, according to The Star-Ledger.

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5 Responses to New Jersey Governor Revives Plan to Merge State Universities

johnlaudun - January 4, 2011 at 4:40 pm

Really, CHE. That’s a pretty good example of headline-baiting to generate page views. The substance of the story is rather banal compared to the headline, which suggests wholesale merging of any number of universities.

rmelton5 - January 4, 2011 at 4:50 pm

Yes, I’ve often thought that CHE steals its headline writers from the National Inquirer. I had images of Glassboro State becoming a branch of Rutgers.

firestaff - January 4, 2011 at 5:04 pm

New Jersey also needs to reform the unconstitutional speech codes at universities across the state (see http://thefire.org/spotlight/states/NJ.html); all seven public schools were warned about this problem last month (a sample letter is at http://thefire.org/article/12660.html).

skocpol - January 5, 2011 at 7:48 am

rmelton5 — FYI,

“In July 1992, industrialist Henry Rowan and his wife, Betty, donated $100 million to the institution, then the largest gift ever given to a public college or University in the history of higher education.”

It is now Rowan University. I know this because a Boston University Physics graduate student went there, after a postdoc at Argonne, as a faculty member about that time and is now a Professor of Physics there.

Bill Skocpol

sbarnett - January 5, 2011 at 8:47 am

Indeed. The headline and the article seem to be about two different things although I suppose they technically are not. CHE has a penchant for this sort of thing.