Medical school not only way Rutgers could improve

By Geoff Mulvihill. Associated Press.

NEW BRUNSWICK — New Jersey state officials are working on rearranging the state’s higher education system to give Rutgers control of a medical university in hopes that would help move the university, as former Gov. Tom Kean put it, from good to great.

Education experts see it as a step likely to help — but hardly the only one the state’s 246-year-old flagship university needs to take to become one of the nation’s elite public universities.

They say the school needs to prioritize which departments will be targeted to try to attract top faculty; find ways to cut bureaucracy for undergraduates; and find ways to sell itself to the state’s top high school students as a place they’ll want to spend the next four years.

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Associated Press article also in Gannett.