N.J. oversight could have kept university from financial peril

August 9, 2022

Bloustein Policy Fellow, and former chair of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University, Linda Stamato argues that the elimination of the state Department of Higher Education and the state Board of Higher Education has led to the current mismanagement of New Jersey City University (NJCU) in this letter to the editor of nj.com

“If we still had crucial state oversight of public colleges and universities, on those two counts alone, it is unlikely that NJCU would be in the perilous condition in which it now finds itself. ”

NJ.com, August 8, 2022

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