URA-AFT Newsletter – Week of 6-4-2012
Higher Education Mergers: Newark & New Brunswick Join the Debate
URA members at Newark and New Brunswick campuses have joined the debate about higher education merger that has already galvanized Camden.
All agree that the costs and the educational benefits of merger between Rutgers, Rowan or UMDNJ have not been spelled out clearly enough to support any proposal. Email your legislators today and tell them not to rush through any Higher Education re-organization proposal before July 1. You can find your New Jersey state legislature at this link.
An Outlook on the Newark Legislative Breakfast
As a speaker at the UMDNJ United Legislative Breakfast on May 16 in Newark, NJ, URA Executive Board member reported back on the climate at the breakfast
URA’s Sue Nemeth Running for Assembly in the 16th District
Sue Nemeth, a Public Relations Specialist at Eagleton Institute on Douglass Campus and a 2012 URA delegate to AFT’s state and national Convention is a candidate in the special June 5 primary election to select a Democratic Assembly candidate in the 16th Legislative District.
