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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.
It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum. Founded by Dorothea Lynde Dix on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey, [ 1 ] and the first mental hospital designed on the principle of the Kirkbride Plan . [ 2 ]
Hospitals in New Jersey Capital Health Regional Medical Center is a member of Capital Health System. [ 1 ] Located in Trenton , New Jersey , Capital Health Regional Medical Center, is a regional academic medical center and state designated trauma center that cares for both complex and routine cases.
Trenton Hall, the building houses the Office of Admissions and the School of Nursing, Health and Exercise Science. The college was established on February 9, 1855, by an act of the New Jersey Legislature mandating the creation of a state normal school, making the New Jersey State Normal School the first teacher training institution in New Jersey and the ninth in the United States.
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.
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 ...
In 1957, TCNJ, then known as Trenton State College, was a founding member of the NJAC (then called the New Jersey State Athletic Conference) along with five other state institutions. [3] Since then, and after the conference allowed women's sports in 1985, the school has been a powerhouse winning the most titles in men's cross country, women's ...
President of the New Jersey Senate and New Jersey Attorney General [35] Shirley Turner: Education New Jersey State Senate and New Jersey General Assembly: Daniel Van Pelt: Criminal justice New Jersey General Assembly: Connie Wagner: New Jersey General Assembly 2008–2013 [36] Madaline A. Williams