The merger creates a new Rutgers School of Nursing, effective July 1. The school combines the Rutgers College of Nursing in Newark and New Brunswick with nursing programs in Newark that once belonged to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Rutgers took over most of UMDNJ's schools after that university was dissolved last summer.
Strom said in a later interview that the consolidation will not immediately affect staffing levels. Rutgers officials say the Rutgers School of Nursing will begin operations with approximately 100 faculty members and 1,800 students.
