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Provost-Gram

Letter from the Provost - Fall 2012

The new academic year arrives with an array of opportunities.  As you know, the Higher Education Restructuring Act provides for Rowan University to be reclassified by the state as a research university.  This change will create the opportunity to expand our offerings to include professional and doctoral programs and to expand our research capabilities.  Already, we have a proposal to create a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) and anticipate significant growth in health science related fields.  Our medical school in Camden has admitted its first class and application for next year’s class have already exceeded the more than 2900 applications for 50 seats that we received last year.  The restructuring act also awarded Rowan University the School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM) in Stratford.  This makes Rowan one of only two universities in the country with both osteopathic and M.D. granting medical schools.  The SOM faculty also operates six Master’s programs and a Ph.D. program in Cell and Molecular Biology.  We are working with our senate to create these programs at Rowan so that faculty may continue their research and students can continue their education without interruption.  We are working diligently with our new partners at SOM and with the leadership at UMDNJ to facilitate a smooth transition of the school into Rowan.

On our Glassboro campus, we are in the process of searching for 21 new tenure-track assistant professors and 34 new tenure-track instructors.  We have agreed to expand the adjusted load program so that all full time assistant, associate, and full professors with a significant research project will qualify to receive it and to allow applications for adjusted load for exceptional service.  In exchange, departments have agreed to concentrate their assistant, associate, and full professors in the upper division of the curriculum.    We are also moving to a centralized scheduling system that will provide more efficient use of our facilities and better insure that the appropriate number of sections of pivotal classes is available for all of our students – native and transfer.

These are exciting times that will require more effort and cooperation from all of us.  We have become accustomed to change, and I am confident that we embrace these opportunities to grow Rowan into an even more prestigious institution without ever compromising our core values of providing high quality education to all of our students at the most affordable price possible.

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