Rutgers University Reorganization Preserves All-Female Campus Presence
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.
The Rutgers University board of governors recently approved a major university reorganization, simplifying a complicated system of undergraduate colleges even as it preserved an all-female niche on the campus.
The plan, adopted by a vote of 10-1, mostly takes effect in fall 2007. It gathers four of the five colleges at the central New Brunswick/Piscataway campus and consolidates them into a School of Arts and Sciences with unified admissions standards and academic requirements. The remaining college, Cook College, will become the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
The changes are meant to streamline a university experience that Rutgers officials complained was confusing and unfair, with students considering some colleges better than others.
“We’re making one of the most significant transformations in the 240-some-year history of Rutgers and reorganizing ourselves on our largest campus, reorganizing especially the way we provide for our students,” says school president Richard L. McCormick.
“It assures that for the next generation at least, men and women coming to Rutgers will get an outstanding education,” he says.
