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Rutgers to merge Douglass College for women?(restructure plans of Rutgers University's Douglass College)(Brief Article)
The nation's only all-women's public college, Douglass College, may soon cease to exist if a plan to restructure Rutgers University NJ occurs as critics fear.
Rutgers is looking to merge four liberal arts colleges into a single unit with standard admission and graduation policies and with all courses and majors being open to women and men, said Barry Qualls, chair of the school's Task Force on Undergraduate Education. He called the current set-up a "Byzantine structure that students don't understand and the faculty doesn't understand."
The uniqueness of Douglass would be lost if the merger occurred, said Rachel Ingber, executive director of the Association Alumnae of Douglass College. "They're sacrificing ...
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