Does Rutgers need 2 governing boards? Task force appointed to consider overhaul

By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger

NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University today named six alumni and board members to a task force that will study whether to overhaul the state university’s governance.

Rutgers officials said last month they would form a group to study ways to improve the university’s governing board system. The seven-member group will be headed by the Rev. M. William Howard Jr., pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Newark and a former chairman of the Rutgers Board of Governors.

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