New Building on Douglass
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So I see that the Douglass alumnae decided to keep contributing despite their upset over the abolition of Douglass College in its classic form. Good for them.
Its "classic form" was abolished more than 30 years ago, when they reorganized the faculties and left Rutgers, Douglass, Livingston and University Colleges as paper structures. The job should have been done then, but the political will wasn't there.
In Douglass residential college, the university has what it should have had all along: all of the programs that attracted female students to Douglass without a separate "college," real, as in the old days, or otherwise.
In Douglass residential college, the university has what it should have had all along: all of the programs that attracted female students to Douglass without a separate "college," real, as in the old days, or otherwise.
agree entirely. Douglass College, like the others, made no sense after 1982.
The ironic thing is that many of the students and alumni who complained about the overloaded bureaucracy (this would be during the late 1980s when I was there), were VERY strong supporters of keeping Livingston's and Douglass' "identities," i.e. fighting putting the business school on Livingston. What do they think made Rutgers overly bureaucratic?
Well, to be fair, that wasn't the only thing that made Rutgers seem overly bureaucratic. Part of it (and the University under McCormick tacitly conceded this) the staff did not think it was its job to help students.
