A Rutgers reprieve?

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2006 | by Rita Giordano and Elisa Ung

Calling it a compromise, Rutgers University president Richard L. McCormick released his proposal for far-reaching changes in structure and curriculum that would allow a modified version of Douglass College, the historic women's school.

McCormick called for combining Douglass, Rutgers, Livingston and University Colleges into one school of arts and sciences, doing away with multiple and at times confusing graduation, admission and curriculum requirements.

The Douglass campus, in turn, would become home to the Mabel Smith Douglass Residential College, providing single-sex housing, women's programs and, with the new school's approval, special academic offerings. Douglass would also retain its dean, McCormick said, and he encouraged creating more learning communities....