Kean and Montclair State (MSU) officials told The Jersey Journal it submitted proposals that will be presented to the NJCU Board of Trustees, expected sometime in February.
As The Journal prepares to end publication Feb. 1, we take a final look back at important Hudson County issues, controversies and people.The Jersey City school struggling to solve a massive financial crisis will certainly lose some of its identity when it merges with another of the state’s public universities. But it will also keep some of it, too.
Kean officials were mum on its plans, but several insiders with knowledge of the talks said NJCU would be absorbed into the university as “Kean Jersey City.” The Union County institution has $150 million of cash on hand. “We believe this can be achieved while maintaining NJCU’s culture and identity,” Koppell said. “We are not proposing making NJCU a Montclair satellite campus. Rather, it will be focused on providing an educated workforce that serves Jersey City’s and Hudson County’s needs.”
“Our response reflects Kean’s leadership and innovation in adapting to the evolving landscape of higher education, both here in New Jersey and beyond,” Smith said. It is still unclear at this moment how the partnerships will affect current NJCU staffers and students. McKnight is confident from her various discussions with state stakeholders, “NJCU can chart a path forward through this transitional period.”
“NJCU has realized who is their biggest audience and that is people in Hudson County,” Fernandez said. “So how do you recruit and retain those students? They really set out to create programs that meet that environment.” The university has $51 million in critical maintenance needs that officials say have been neglected since the late 1960s. In Amoroso’s report, the institution and its potential partner need to make “targeted” capital investments of $20 million by 2026.
During Henderson’s tenure, the school was focused on real estate expansions and bringing in international students to fill the void of declining students, he said.
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