By James Ahearn, Record Columnist

THE PLAN pushed by Governor Christie to merge the Camden campus of Rutgers University into Rowan University in Glassboro has met determined resistance by Rutgers trustees, professors, students and alumni.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, left, meets with President Lyndon Johnson in Glassboro, N.J., on June 23, 1967. Behind them is an interpreter.
In this event, however, Rutgers-Camden and Rowan could become partners in educational initiatives, with the Rutgers campus winning greater independence from the university’s headquarters in New Brunswick. The Newark campus could benefit in similar fashion. Also eligible for help would be a new Rowan medical school, opening this summer.

This alternative would be good news not just for Rutgers-Camden but for the university as a whole and for the state. The campus is now home not only to a respected College of Arts and Sciences but to a law school and business school. It is a significant institution.

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