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Merger Proposal and its Rejection
In January 2012, a state advisory committee proposed a deeply controversial plan to merge Rowan University with the Camden campus of Rutgers University (which would have been separated from Rutgers) under Rowan's name. The plan was opposed by the Rutgers governing boards, faculty, students, and alumni, and by others in the state. Legislation passed in June 2012 entirely rejected the idea of a merger, though it did enhance the financial autonomy of Rutgers–Camden and included provisions for a loose collaboration between Rowan and Rutgers–Camden limited to research and teaching in the health sciences.