Special Ceremony Held For Inaugural Class Of Cooper Medical School
Dr. Paul Katz, dean of the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, says it's a very special moment when a medical student puts on their white coat for the first time.
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Dr. Paul Katz, dean of the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, says it's a very special moment when a medical student puts on their white coat for the first time.
Some call it controversial, but both political leaders and many educators are calling it necessary.
The university's official mascot, "The Prof," which is short for "professor," is represented by an owl named WhooRU.
Governor Chris Christie joined legislative leaders in cutting the ribbon on the gleaming new Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission will conduct a study to determine the feasibility of a shuttle service between Gloucester County's two major educational institutions.
New Jersey legislators have approved a far-reaching reorganization of the state's higher education system. But it does not include a plan to, in effect, merge the operations of Rutgers-Camden and Rowan Universities.
Rutgers-Camden students who worried they would lose their campus to a merger with Rowan University, as initially proposed by the governor and some lawmakers, are relieved.
Proponents of a higher education restructuring plan are scrambling to get the measure through the Legislature and to the governor's desk by week's end.
Add the Rowan University Senate to the growing list of opponents to the current effort to reform higher education in New Jersey, an effort now making its way through the state legislature.
New Jersey Senate Democrats have come up with an alternative to the Christie Administration's plan to merge Rutgers-Camden with Rowan University.
A multi-million dollar housing complex at Rowan University's Glassboro campus, built less than 10 years ago, is now facing an expensive problem: mold.
Dr. Ali Houshmand went to great lengths on Thursday to stress that any merger would take years to complete.
The higher education committees of the New Jersey assembly and state senate got an earful on the highly charged proposal to have Rowan take over Rutgers University's Camden campus.
The donation was made to the Rowan Foundation by Comcast Corporation senior vice president Lawrence Salva and his wife, Rita.
Students, faculty and members of the Camden community gathered in a lecture hall on the Rutgers campus Tuesday night to discuss the impact of the proposed merger of Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University.
Dean Rayman Solomon says law school applications were already down nationally due to what he considers overblown worries about the value of a law degree.
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Amid all the debate over the proposed takeover of Rutgers University's Camden campus by Rowan University comes what could be a serious difference of opinion within one of South Jersey's most powerful political families.
Look for the battle to stop a planned merger of Rutgers-Camden with Rowan University to be stepped up a notch, with a newly formed non-profit group raising money to make its point in the court of public opinion, even as they prepare for a possible legal fight.
Chris talks about the 2008 speech from Rick Santorum about Satan, the GOP debate that will be held tonight in Arizona and Gov. Chris Christie's budget speech yesterday in New Jersey. Chris also chats with Dr. Dan Cook from Rutgers-Camden about the possible merger of two universities in New Jersey and Tom McGrath, editor of Philadelphia Magazine about the potential sale of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News.
It contains an income tax cut and more money in several key areas, including a massive payment into the public worker pension fund.
Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and Camden residents rallied outside the Rutgers-Camden library prior to a meeting of the school's board of governors in another building, where the issue was being discussed.
One new knock is a poll from the Rutgers-Eagleton people, who find that New Jerseyans dislike the idea of the Rowan takeover by a margin of 57 percent to 22 percent.
The over-the top villain in the play is "Gary Nearcross," with any resemblance to New Jersey powerbroker George Norcross not so coincidental.
"Given a choice... I seriously doubt that the Boards of Governors and Trustees would want to give up the Rutgers-Camden campus," says Rutgers president Richard McCormick.
