Whereas, the New
Brunswick Faculty Council (NBFC) is dedicated to the goal of bringing
New
Jersey public research universities, and Rutgers University in
particular, into
the top tier of public universities and believes that any restructuring
of
public higher education in the State must have the promotion of
excellence as
it primary goal, and
Whereas, the NBFC believes that a
well-planned and well-supported restructuring that would unite the
health
sciences with the arts and sciences and other professions in a single
research
university would be a major step toward achieving our goal of moving to
the
next level of excellence, and
Whereas,
the NBFC discussed at length proposals to merge all or parts of the
State’s
public research universities at its meetings of December 8, 2006 and
February
23, 2007, and
Whereas, an ad-hoc committee of members of the NBFC Executive
Cabinet prepared a statement on restructuring which represents the
consensus
reached at those meetings.