The Sweeney Center Event Calendar

Restructuring Higher Education in New Jersey: Thirty Years of Change, Future Challenges

This statewide conference examines the impact of the 30-year-old Higher Education Restructuring Act that freed New Jersey's public universities and colleges to compete and chart their own courses by replacing the central authority of the Chancellor and Department of Higher Education with a Council of College Presidents and Secretary of Higher Education. The conference also assesses the effectiveness of the 2012 law that merged the state's medical schools into Rutgers and Rowan universities, explores the challenges facing New Jersey's higher education sector in the years ahead, and reviews whether current governance structures are adequate to meet those challenges.  

Speakers include:

• Brian Bridges, New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education
• Senator Joseph Cryan, chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee
• Ali Houshmand, President of Rowan University
• Michael Avaltroni, President of Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Jonathan Koppell, President of Montclair State University
• Jennifer S. Higgins, President of the American Federation of Teachers, New Jersey
• Frederick Keating, President of Rowan College of South Jersey
• Henry J. Amoroso, State Monitor for New Jersey City University
• George Pruitt, former Thomas Edison State University President and former President of the Council of College Presidents
• Kathy Scotto, Vice Chancellor of Research, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
• Anthony Lowman, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs

The conference is sponsored by the Sweeney Center for Public Policy and the Rowan University College of Education.

The conference is free for both in-person and virtual attendees. Registration and breakfast open at 8:00 a.m. Lunch is included. T

To sign up for virtual attendance, please register here 

To sign up for in-person attendance, please email Mark Magyar at magyarm@rowan.edu.

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New Jersey League of Municipalities Conference: Shared Services and Regionalization 

Atlantic City Convention Center (Room TBD)
Thursday, November 21
Program: 10:45 a.m. to 12 noon

For the third consecutive year, the New Jersey Division of Local Government Services and the Sweeney Center for Public Policy are presenting "New Trends and Developments in Shared Services and Regionalization."

Panelists include New Jersey Community Affairs Commissioner Jacquelyn Suarez; Richard Richardella, Chief of the Bureau of Local Government Assistance, NJ Division of Local Government Services; Mark Magyar, co-chair of the Rowan School Regionalization Institute; Shared Services Czars Jordan Glatt and Nic Platt; and Marc Pfeiffer, Associate Director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center, Rutgers University.