Leaky ceilings raining down on chemistry equipment. Power failures. Classrooms originally built for elementary-school students. Steam plumes exploding out of the sidewalks. The infrastructure woes of New Jersey's public universities have emerged as a serious problem for the 467,000-student system, causing state schools to lose students and top professors to other states. But the higher-education money has snagged on an issue roiling New Jersey politics: a proposal by Gov. Chris Christie to merge two public schools in the Philadelphia area, Rutgers University-Camden and nearby Rowan University. Read more at:
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