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In 1989, the New Jersey Council of County Colleges was created to promote the advancement of the state's county community colleges. In 2003, governor James McGreevey created the New Jersey Community Colleges Compact, through Executive Order No. 81, as a statewide partnership to enable cooperation between the colleges and various state departments.
Centenary University is a private university in Hackettstown, New Jersey, United States.Founded as a preparatory school by the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867, [6] Centenary evolved into a Junior College for women and later a coeducational university.
Of the nine colonial colleges, New Jersey possessed College of New Jersey, now called Princeton University, founded in 1746 and Queen's College, now known as Rutgers University (or officially as Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), founded in 1766. Princeton was established by the New Light Presbyterians.
In 1962, the state of New Jersey enacted the County College Act, empowering its counties to establish colleges and providing partial financial support for these colleges. [2] Ocean County College was established by the Ocean County Board of Commissioners in January 1964 following a 1963 public referendum, and classes were first offered in the ...
The total percentage of 44.9% was the third highest among the nineteen New Jersey County Colleges (NJCCs); the median was 35.3%. [58] Among all students in 2010, the percentage enrolled in remedial courses was 28.9% (seventh among the nineteen NJCCs; the median is 28.1%); among first-time, full-time students, the percentage was 63.3% (tenth ...
An enlargeable map of the State of New Jersey. Names Common name: New Jersey Official name: State of New Jersey; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: NJ; ISO 3166-2 code: US-NJ
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) was a state-run health sciences institution with six locations in New Jersey. It was founded as the Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1954, and by the 1980s was both a major school of health sciences, and a major research university.
Kean University (/ ˈ k eɪ n / [11]) is a public university [12] in Union, Elizabeth, and Hillside, New Jersey.It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education and is a state-designated research university.