Proposed reconfiguring of N.J. universities to be discussed by state Senate committee

This article is from the New Jersey Real-Time News  

New Jersey lawmakers are trying to join the conversation about whether to reconfigure some state universities.

The state Senate's Higher Education Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today about a plan endorsed by Gov. Chris Christie that would fold Rutgers University's Camden campus into Rowan University.

Rutgers' main campus in New Brunswick and Piscataway would absorb three units of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The remaining parts of the medical university would be renamed the New Jersey Health Sciences University.

There's been protest from Rutgers-Camden officials, students, faculty and alumni who object to a name change for their campus.

Christie has not laid out a process for making the changes.