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In January 2012, a state advisory committee proposed a plan [42] to merge Rowan with the Camden campus of Rutgers University (which would have been separated from Rutgers) under Rowan's name. [43] The project was opposed by the Rutgers governing boards, faculty, students, and alumni, and by others in the state.
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In September 1923, Glassboro Normal School opened with 236 students arriving by train to convene in the school's first building, now called Bunce Hall. Dr. Jerohn Savitz, the institution's first president, expanded the curriculum as the training of teachers became more sophisticated. Despite the rigors of the Depression, the program was expanded to...
The University received worldwide attention when it hosted a historic summit conference between President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Hollybush. The University was chosen because of its strategic location midway between Washington, D.C., and the United Nations in New York City, where Kosygin was scheduled to speak. The meet...
The University's fourth president, Dr. Mark Chamberlain, guided the college through its next phase of growth as enrollment doubled and G.S.C. became a multi-purpose institution. As new majors and a Business Administration Division were added, four divisions grew into schools and a board of trustees was formed. In 1969, the University opened a campu...
In July 1992, industrialist Henry Rowan and his wife Betty donated $100 million to the institution, then the largest gift ever to a public college or university. Later that year, the school changed its name to Rowan College of New Jersey to recognize its benefactors’ generosity. The Rowans’ only request was that a College of Engineering be created ...
During this period, Rowan founded Cooper Medical School of Rowan University—the first new medical school in New Jersey in more than 35 years and the first-ever M.D.-granting four-year program in South Jersey—in partnership with Cooper University Health Care. The medical school welcomed its first class in the summer of 2012 into a new, six-story bui...
On July 1, 2013, Rowan again changed dramatically when the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act went into effect. The Restructuring Act designated Rowan as New Jersey’s second comprehensive public research institution, transferred the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s School of Osteopathic Medicine t...
Rowan has attracted the attention of national organizations that evaluate colleges and universities. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Rowan among the top tier Northern Regional Universities and among the top three public institutions in the category, and includes the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering among the best institutions where...
Rowan continues to expand its programs and partnerships. Among the most recent—and vital to higher education in New Jersey—was its June 2015 partnership with Burlington County College (now Rowan College at Burlington County) to improve access to affordable four-year undergraduate degrees. That move followed one two years earlier with Gloucester Cou...
As a result of the 1992 $100,000,000 gift from industrialist, Henry Rowan, the name was changed to Rowan College of New Jersey. This institution achieved university status on March 21, 1997. The College of Education faculty and students are very proud of this distinction.
Sep 1, 2023 · In 1937 its name was changed to New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro. A physical therapy program for disabled people opened in 1944, making the Glassboro school one of the first in...
Burlington County College followed, renaming itself Rowan College at Burlington County in 2015. With Cumberland County College’s 2019 merger with its Gloucester County peer, the two became Rowan College of South Jersey.
Nov 8, 2023 · “The book bring(s) my 52-plus years at GSC, RC and RU back into focus and revives a deep fondness for what was—and is—a major part of my life,” said Zazzali, referring to the school’s name changes during the last five decades from Glassboro State College to Rowan College to Rowan University.
Aug 30, 2024 · In 1934 the school became a four-year institution dedicated to training teachers, and in 1937 its name was changed to New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro. As its curriculum expanded in the 1950s, it became Glassboro State College (1958).
