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Coordinates: 39°42′39.30″N 75°07′06.38″W / 39.7109167, -75.1184389

Rowan University
Image:Rowan seal.png
Motto: Eruditio spes mundi
Motto in English: Education, hope of the world
Established: 1923
Type: Public
Endowment: $176.4 million 1
President: Donald J. Farish
Provost: Ali A. Houshmand
Faculty: 441 2
Staff: 871 2
Undergraduates: 9,0372
Postgraduates: 1,2342
Location: Flag of the United States Glassboro, NJ, USA
Campus: Suburban, about 200 acres (0.81 km2)
Former names: Glassboro Normal School (1923-37)
New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro (1937-58)
Glassboro State College (1958-92)
Rowan College of New Jersey (1992-97)3
Newspaper: The Whit
Colors:      Rowan Brown4
     Rowan Gold4
Nickname: RU
Mascot: WHO R. U (Owl)
Athletics: 18 NCAA Division III sports teams2
34 intramural sports2
Website: www.rowan.edu

Rowan University is a public university located in Glassboro, New Jersey comprising 49 buildings. There is also a satellite campus in Camden, New Jersey. The school was founded in 1923. as Glassboro Normal School with the mission to train public school teachers. The land tract originally belonged in part to the family who owned the Whitney Glass Works during the 1800s. It opened with more than 200 young women entering to begin their training. The school became New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro in the 1930s, and later became Glassboro State College in 1958, gaining a national reputation in the fields of reading and special education. Starting in the 1970s, it grew into a multi-purpose institution, adding programs in business, communications, and by the 1990s, engineering. It was renamed Rowan College of New Jersey in 1992, after Henry Rowan and his wife Betty gave $100 million to the school, at the time the largest gift to a public college.5 It became Rowan University on March 21, 1997, when it won approval for university status from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education.6

Contents

School

Enrollment at Rowan from the fall semester of 2005 shows 8,120 undergraduates (6,853 full-time, 1,267 part-time), 1,218 graduate students, 59 doctoral students and 89 post-baccelaurate certification candidates. 7 It is divided into a Graduate School and seven academic colleges: Business, Communication, Education, Engineering, Fine & Performing Arts, Liberal Arts & Sciences, and Professional & Continuing Education. A moderately-priced, high-quality institution, Rowan is ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the "Top Tier" of northern regional universities. Kiplinger's named Rowan one of the "100 Best Buys in Public Colleges and Universities" and the Princeton Review included Rowan in "The Best Northeastern Colleges."

Acceptance

For the class of 2011, 51.7% of applicants were accepted.8

Athletics

A member of the NCAA in Division III, the sports teams at Rowan University have been moderately successful on a national level. The football team is regularly a contender for the national title, having gone to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl five times (1999, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1993) and the national semifinals in 1992, 1997, 2001, 2004 and 2005. The women's field hockey team won the national championship in 2002 and had a perfect season of 21 wins and no losses. The men's basketball team has made the Division III National Championship Tournament 12 times, winning the national title in 1996. The men's soccer team has made the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament 24 times, resulting in seven trips to the national semifinals. Rowan men's soccer has won national titles in both 1981 and 1990, finished second in 1979 and 2000, and third in 1980, 1985 and 1998. Rowan hosted the Division III National Championship Tournament Final Four for men's soccer in 2000 and Women's Lacrosse in 2002. Rowan competes in the New Jersey Athletic Conference.

West campus

A map outlining the new West Campus.

On March 20, 2006, President Donald Farish announced a joint venture between the university and Major League Soccer to construct a new athletic complex based around a 20,000 seat soccer-specific stadium on property owned by the campus at the intersection of U.S. Route 322 and Route 55. The stadium itself was planned to be complete for the start of the 2009 MLS season. The plan fell through and the stadium project was relocated to nearby Chester, Pennsylvania. 2006 budget problems in New Jersey resulted in cutbacks, including funding for infrastructure upgrades required to handle increased traffic that would have come with an MLS team. 9 The West Campus remains under development.

South Jersey Technology Park

Rowan University broke ground for the South Jersey Technology Park (SJTP) on April 10, 2006. The New Jersey Development Authority (NJEDA) gave Rowan University $5.8 million along with $1.5 million from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, $1 million from Samuel H. Jones, and $1 million from Rowan itself10. SJTP is planned to be a 188-acre (0.76 km2) site which will serve as an establishment for science and technology companies as well as academics. It is planned to have 25 buildings to provide competitively price, Class "A" facilities for budding entrepreneurs, start-up and established companies. SJTP was incorporated as a non-profit corporation, it has it's own board of directors.11 The first building, the Samuel H. Jones Innovation Center, is expected to be leased completely out and the revenue will help build a second building. The first floor will be controlled by Rowan and will pay a lease to the Tech Park Corporation and is divided up among the Rohrer College of Business and separate lab space for the College of Engineering.12

Oak Hall.

Student Life

Media Publications

There are two main publications on Rowan's campus, The Whit and Venue. The Whit is in the classic newspaper format and gets published weekly except during exams13. Venue is a more "alternative" publication that is uncensored and focuses on campus opinions and humor. Initial formed in 1968, Venue was a very political publication that only later changed its format. Venue puts out four issues a year in full color and is run completely by students.14 In addition to newspapers Rowan also has an award winning15 student-run radio station, Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM, which found its beginnings in 1977 on a $6,000 budget16. Rowan also has its own closed-circuit television channel, RTN, which got its start in 199217.

Housing

Rowan provides housing for 2,950 students in 12 buildings scattered around campus. Students have a choice between halls, apartments, or townhouses. After their first year freshmen are not guaranteed housing18

According to the Rowan University Master Plan released in December 2007 there are plans to expand on the current housing situation. Firstly removing Mansion Park Apartments and replacing it with upperclassman townhouses. Next building a new hall on the opposite side of Linden Hall and also building new residence halls around Bunce circle replacing Bole Hall and Bole Annex. There will be buildings added to Edgewood Park Apartments and Triad Apartments to fill them out more. It is outlined that any necessary additional housing after this will be provided by a new private development on Rowan Boulevard.19

Halls

  • Chestnut Hall - A freshman hall which houses up to 390 students on three floors. The rooms are arranged in suites that all share a bathroom and lounge.
  • Mimosa Hall - At full capacity 340 freshmen living on four floors with an adjoined 24/7 computer lab. The suites are made up of two to three rooms that share a common bathroom.
  • Evergreen Hall - Houses 240 freshmen, in two wings with three floors each, in suites that are joined by a bathroom.
  • Magnolia Hall - On three floors, 210 freshmen live here arranged in suites sharing a common room and bathroom.
  • Willow Hall - A freshman dorm housing up to 210 students on three floors.
  • Mullica Hall - 135 students on three floors where two rooms share a bathroom.
  • Oak & Laurel Hall - Each housing up to 65 students on three floors. The suites could share one or two bathrooms.20

Apartments

  • Edgewood Park Apartments - Four buildings, each with three floors and 24 apartments per house 480 students.
  • Mansion Park Apartments - Seven buildings housing 260 students in total.
  • Townhouses Complex - The townhouses have 113 units can accommodate 464 students in single occupancy rooms. There is a three story parking garage to accommodate its residents.
  • Triad Apartments - In three wings with three floors each, Triad's 100 apartments hold 378 students.21

University student organizations

12% of men and 7% of women belong to a fraternity or sorority at Rowan University. There are over 75 University sanctioned student clubs and organizations on campus, underneath the Student Government Association.

National Fraternities:

National Sororities:
The facade of Bunce Hall shows both the old and the new names of the school.

There are a myriad of other Chartered Clubs, all of which report to the Student Government Association including national award-winning programs such as the local PRSSA, the Rowan Democratic Club, and The Student University Programmers (SUP). Cinema Workshop, the University's student film club, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 200722.

Admissions

Students entering the University in 2008 had a mean SAT I range between 1090 and 1260 (math/critical reading only), and average GPA of 3.6, and were ranked in the top 21% of their high school classes. 23

Famous events

Hollybush Mansion, site of the Glassboro Summit Conference.

The Cold War Glassboro Summit Conference between U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin took place on June 23-25, 1967, in Hollybush Mansion at Glassboro State College. The college was chosen because of its location equidistant between New York City, where Kosygin was making a speech at the U.N., and Washington, D.C.

While not occurring on University grounds, a significant event occurred in 1986 at Glassboro High School (which exists on the outskirts of the campus). Ronald Reagan spoke at the Glassboro High School graduation. 24 This was the first time in American history that a sitting President spoke at a high school graduation ceremony. In the speech, Reagan reflected on the Glassboro Summit Conference and offered an optimistic analysis of the future of the Cold War. The event brought a high level of media attention.

Black Sabbath's first American gig was played at Glassboro State College on October 30, 1970. 25

In March 2006, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth from the TV show The Apprentice appeared at Rowan to give an hour-long presentation entitled "Being Successful." Roughly 35 minutes into the lecture, a student named Ian Dorety threw water balloons at her from the third floor.26 The balloons missed her but Omarosa walked off, cancelling the rest of the presentation.27

Social climate

Riots took place during Spring Weekend 1986, primarily off campus (though dominated by students) around the Beau Rivage townhomes and the Crossings apartment complex. As a result, Glassboro State College was ranked as the #28 Party School in the nation in the January 1987 issue of Playboy magazine.28 Coincidentally, in the Greek section of that same issue of Playboy, the Epsilon Eta chapter of Zeta Beta Tau was also named one of the Animal House Contenders.29

Though the alcohol-fueled Spring Weekend was cancelled by then-President Herman James (a non-alcoholic version continued for several years), Glassboro State College remained known for its hard partying culture. However in 1988, there began one of the biggest crackdowns in school history. As result of the drinking death of freshman James Callahan at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, Herman James decided to make GSC an example for the rest of the State colleges and universities to follow. He invited the NJ Alcoholic Beverage Control commission (ABC) to the school and began shutting down off-campus parties, and placing undercover agents in the local liquor establishments. This prompted Morton Downey, Jr., who was based in Secaucus, New Jersey, and very popular at the time, to do an untelevised show focusing on the drinking age and the classic argument that an eighteen year old can go off to war and die for their country, but they cannot legally buy and consume a beer. Needless to say, he sided with the student opinion on this issue. The following year, the ABC did not return, and the partying atmosphere that Glassboro State College was known for, returned in earnest and continued into the 1990s and early 2000s.

The Presidency of Donald J. Farish was noted for a continued crackdown on this partying culture which declined alongside a rise in SAT scores and class rank among the incoming freshman classes. The crackdown on the partying culture began in earnest in 2002 with the official banning of kegs for use by Greek letter organizations. 30 In 2006, two Rowan University students were found guilty for serving alcohol to minors that resulted in the death of a 16-year old male at an off campus party, with Rowan promising to follow up with its own penalties. 31

In 2007, the secret student organization named ABC, a title that mocks the actual Alcoholic Beverage Control, was involved with a dispute with the town of Glassboro over the purchase of land containing their house.`32Rowan's ABC felt due to not being an officially sanctioned organization, they were unfairly subject to removal as a result of President Farish's crackdowns. ABC is known for their ability to have parties that break many school rules, including the 1986 "Keg-a-Saurus Party" which fueled the Spring Weekend riots. 33

Campus violence

On November 11, 2008 three men, two of them armed, wearing hooded sweatshirts attacked a student at the Magnolia Hall gazebo. About ten minutes later another student was assaulted at Campus Crossings. The suspects fled in a tan sedan. 34 In the following December three men were arrested for their tie-in with the November crime.35

On October 27, 2007 (during Homecoming festivities) 19-year old sophomore Donald Farrell was robbed and beaten to death by unknown assailants while walking behind the Triad dormitory.36 Farrell was leaving a local convenience store with a group of friends when he was approached by three individuals. After asking Farrell where there was a party, the assailants then began punching and kicking him, knocking him down. They took his wallet, got into their car and drove away. University and local police arrived on-scene in less than 90 seconds37 and Farrell was rushed to Cooper University Hospital. En route, EMTs revived Farrell multiple times but he died in the hospital the next morning. Autopsy reports show that he died of blunt force trauma to the right side of his neck.38 A reward of $100,000 has been offered for information leading to the capture, arrest of conviction of the assailants.39

In January, 1998 Lynn Darren was found dead in her off-campus apartment in what was investigated as a homicide. Ms. Darren's body was found at the Park Crest Village, an apartment complex two miles west of the campus, after the police were contacted by her mother, who was concerned because she had not been able to reach her.40

On August 12, 1996 22-year old Cindy Nannay was fatally shot by her estranged boyfriend, who then killed himself. Nannay was so afraid of Scott Lonabaugh, 27, that when he arrived on the campus to see her, she asked friends to accompany her to the parking lot, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's office said. As her friends looked on, Mr. Lonabaugh shot Ms. Nannay twice with a shotgun and then shot himself in the head, prosecutors said. Both died at the scene.41

Notable alumni

References

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  38. ^ Fatal Beating Unnerves University in Quiet Town, The New York Times, November 5, 2007
  39. ^ $50,000 Reward in Homicide Investigation, Rowan University publication, October 2007
  40. ^ Murder Is Suspected In Student's Death, The New York Times, January 28, 1998
  41. ^ Murder-Suicide at Rowan, The New York Times, August 13, 1996
  42. ^ Patti Smith biography, Arista Records

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