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The Restructuring Act mandates a line item in the state budget for each Rutgers campus .

Is Rutgers ’ central administration complying with the intent of the Higher Education Restructuring Act of 2012?. The Restructuring Act mandates a line item in the state budget for each Rutgers campus .

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The Restructuring Act mandates a line item in the state budget for each Rutgers campus .

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  1. Is Rutgers’ central administration complying with the intent of the Higher Education Restructuring Act of 2012?

  2. The Restructuring Act mandates a line item in the state budget foreach Rutgers campus.

  3. But Rutgers’ central administration submitted one number for the entire university.

  4. And Rutgers excluded the Newark campus in formulating a budget number for the university.

  5. Rutgers has even engineered aclause in the proposed statebudget to reinstitute onecentralized budget forallcampuses.

  6. If Rutgers’ central administration succeeds, it would gut the legislative intent behind theRestructuring Act.

  7. It would also gut the Statement of Principles passed by the Rutgers Board of Governors and Board of Trustees, which made threepromises:

  8. Transparency in University budgeting • More autonomy for each campus • Equity in resources across campuses

  9. The Restructuring Act is supposed to address the inequitable allocation of resources across campuses. How severe is the inequity?

  10. To the federal government, Rutgers reports that it spends $34,162 on each student in New Brunswick, versus $18,275 on each student in Newark.

  11. Rutgers’ own statistics discredit the argument that central administrative costs create the disparity.

  12. For instruction alone, Rutgers has told the federal government it spends $15,092 on each student in New Brunswick, versus $8,070 on each student in Newark.

  13. Is Rutgers continuing the inequity across campuses after the Restructuring Act?

  14. In December, the central administration proposed a working budget for the Newark campus of $24.6 million—again, without campus input.

  15. But Newark's fair share based on student enrollment would be more than $50 million, by the most conservative estimate.

  16. It gets worse.

  17. This winter, Rutgers “forgot” to inform the Newark campus of the state’s RFP for the $100 million EquipmentLeasingProgram. Rutgers-Newark discovered the RFP hours before the deadline.

  18. Over the past six years, Rutgers’ capital development projects in New Brunswick have totaled at least $1.14 billion, versus $163 million in Newark.

  19. In its annual filings, Rutgers reveals it invests 11.6 percent of its capital development in Newark. Yet Newark has 20.4 percent of Rutgers students.

  20. While students in Newark study in dilapidated facilities, Rutgers is promoting a new campus cinema in New Brunswick with three screens and stadium seating.

  21. To rationalize the inequitable allocation of resources across campuses, Rutgers’ central administration has begun to brand New Brunswick as the flagship campus.

  22. But branding New Brunswick as the flagship violates: • The 1956 Rutgers Act • The 2008 accreditation of Rutgers as having three main campuses • The 2012 Restructuring Act and Rutgers Statement of Principles

  23. Note that Rutgers’ central administration omitted“The State University of New Jersey,” part of the legal name.

  24. To bolster New Brunswick at the expense of Newark and Camden, Rutgers’ central administration now says only New Brunswick is part of the elite Association of American Universities.

  25. In 2013, Rutgers Executive Vice President Dick Edwards defended recasting New Brunswick as the sole AAU campus.

  26. Edwards on tape: “We are not pretty much equal, and we’re not ever going to be pretty much equal. I mean, let’s be real.”

  27. Again, a violation of legislative intent for three regional hubs of excellence.

  28. In fact, the AAU itself has included Rutgers-Newark in its own reporting.

  29. And Rutgers’ own Statement of Principles of 2012 refers to an AAU university that includes all three campuses.

  30. Why would Rutgers’ central administration even want to reduce Newark to second-class status? 

  31. For 15 years running, U.S. News has ranked Rutgers-Newark #1 in the country for diversity.

  32. Rutgers-Newark also ranks #1 in the country for outperforming predicted graduation rates.

  33. Rutgers-Newark ranks #2 in the country for “best bang for the buck,” according to Washington Monthly.

  34. Rutgers-Newark ranks #9 in the country for promoting social mobility.

  35. And in these tough fiscal times, Rutgers-Newark ranks #11 in the country for operating efficiency.

  36. It matters that the intent of the Restructuring Act is being ignored.

  37. At stake is the American dream for the nation’s most diverse student body.

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