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Rowan University is a public research university in Glassboro, New Jersey, with a medical campus in Stratford and medical and academic campuses in Camden.Founded in 1923 as Glassboro Normal School on a 25-acre (10 ha) site donated by 107 residents, [9] the school was formerly known as Glassboro State College from 1958 until 1992 and Rowan College of New Jersey from 1992 to 1997.
Rowan University’s economic impact in New Jersey. Founded in 1923 as the Glassboro Normal School for teachers, and then later renamed Glassboro State College, the school gained national fame ...
In 1995, the airport's name was changed to Trenton–Mercer Airport in an effort to identify it with the city of Trenton (the capital of New Jersey and county seat of Mercer County). On March 11, 1998, an NWS / FAA automated surface observing system (ASOS) became operational at the airport, replacing the human weather observers that had ...
Glassboro is a borough within Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 23,149, [11] [12] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 4,570 (+24.6%) from the 18,579 recorded at the 2010 census, [21] [22] which in turn had reflected a decline of 489 (−2.6%) from the ...
“The renaming of our airport started a long time ago with the public rebranding us the State College Airport,” Centre County Airport Authority Executive Director James Meyer said in a statement.
With the 1992 name change of Glassboro State College to Rowan University due to a $100 million donation from industrialist Henry Rowan, WGLS-FM re-branded itself as "Rowan Radio". The station's antenna moved to the Glassboro city water tower in 1993, and the increased height boosted the station's power to an effective radiated power of 640 ...
Henry Madison "Hank" Rowan Jr. (December 4, 1923 [1] – December 9, 2015) was an American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist.. He was the founder of Inductotherm Corp. and the first person to give a $100 million donation to school of higher education in the US, which he gave to Glassboro State College of New Jersey, which was renamed Rowan College of New Jersey later Rowan University ...
New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two colleges in the colonial period. Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered on November 10, 1766, as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.