Editing Rutgers University (section)

===20th century===

With the development of graduate education, and the continued expansion of the institution, the collection of schools became Rutgers University in 1924.<ref name="years" /> Rutgers College continued as a liberal arts college within the university. Later, [[School of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)|University College]] (1945) was founded to serve part-time, commuting students and [[Livingston College]] (1969) was created by the Rutgers Trustees, ensuring that the interests of ethnically diverse New Jersey students were met.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" />

Rutgers was designated the state university of New Jersey by acts of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] in 1945 and 1956.<ref name="1956law">[https://archive.today/20121224170401/http://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=16046531&depth=2&expandheadings=off&headingswithhits=on&infobase=statutes.nfo&softpage=TOC_Frame_Pg42 N.J.S.A.] 18A:65–1 et seq. (Public Law 1956, chapter 61) repealing and succeeding P.L. 1945, c.49, p.115. Retrieved August 8, 2006.</ref>  Although Rutgers thus became a public university, it still retains—as the successor to the private college founded and chartered in 1766—some important private rights and protections from unilateral state efforts to change its fundamental character and mission.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dane |first1=Perry |last2=Stein |first2=Allan |last3=Williams |first3=Robert |year=2014 |title=Saving Rutgers-Camden |journal=Rutgers Law Journal 337 (2014) |volume=44 |pages=337–412 |ssrn=2302826}}</ref>

The newly-designated state university absorbed the University of Newark (1935) in 1946 and then the College of South Jersey and South Jersey Law School, in 1950. These two institutions became [[Rutgers University–Newark]] and [[Rutgers University–Camden]], respectively. On September 10, 1970, after much debate, the board of governors voted to admit women into Rutgers College.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" />
[[File:Rutgers University statue and tree in April College Campus.JPG|thumb|left|On the western end of [[Voorhees Mall]] is a [[William the Silent (statue)|bronze statue of William the Silent]], commemorating the university's [[Netherlands|Dutch]] heritage.<ref name="WillieFacultySpirit">Staff. [http://www.dailytargum.com/news/university/faculty-members-signify-spirit-of-william-the-silent/article_2d4d33ba-5e9c-11e1-ab12-001a4bcf6878.html?TNNoMobile Editorial: "Faculty members signify spirit of William the Silent"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140228192225/http://www.dailytargum.com/news/university/faculty-members-signify-spirit-of-william-the-silent/article_2d4d33ba-5e9c-11e1-ab12-001a4bcf6878.html?TNNoMobile |date=February 28, 2014 }}, ''The Daily Targum'', February 24, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2014.</ref>]]
There were setbacks in the growth of the university. In 1967, the Rutgers Physics Department had a Centers of Excellence Grant from the NSF which allowed the physics department to hire several faculty each year. These faculty were to be paid by the grant for three years, but after that time any faculty hired with the associate or full professor designation would become tenured. The governor and the chancellor forced Rutgers to lose this grant by rejecting the condition that tenure be granted.<ref>[https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/dept/history/robbins/chapt11.pdf "NSF Science Development Grant Peter Weiss (1964-1972)"], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

In 1970, the newly formed Rutgers Medical School hired major faculty members from other institutions. In 1971, the governor's office separated Rutgers Medical School from Rutgers University and made it part of [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey|New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry]], and many faculty left the medical school, including the dean of the medical school, Dewitt Stetten, who later became the director of the National Institutes of Health. As a result of the separation of the medical school from Rutgers University, Ph.D. programs that had been started in the medical center were lost, and students had to seek other institutions to finish their degrees. After the dissolution of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in 2013, the medical school [[#1982–present|again became]] part of the university.<ref name="Timeline">{{Cite web |title=Timeline |url=https://rwjms.rutgers.edu/about_rwjms/history#:~:text=Robert%20Wood%20Johnson%20Medical%20School,students%20entered%20in%20September%201966. |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=rwjms.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

Before 1982, separate liberal arts faculties existed in the several separate "[[residential college]]s" (Rutgers, Douglass, Livingston, University, and Cook colleges) at Rutgers–New Brunswick.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/education/rutgers-chief-said-to-plan-end-to-separate-womens-college.html|title=Rutgers Chief Said to Plan End to Separate Women's College|last1=Jones|first1=Richard Lezin|date=March 7, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 22, 2020|last2=Koblin|first2=John|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121011109/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/education/rutgers-chief-said-to-plan-end-to-separate-womens-college.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1982, under president [[Edward J. Bloustein]], the liberal arts faculties of these five institutions were centralized into one college, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which itself had no students. The separate residential colleges persisted for students, and while instructors for classes were now drawn from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, separate standards for admission, good standing, and graduation continued for students, depending on which residential college they were enrolled in.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rutgers.edu/about/history/past-presidents/edward-j-bloustein|website=www.rutgers.edu|access-date=January 22, 2020|title=Edward J. Bloustein &#124; Rutgers University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426153536/https://www.rutgers.edu/about/history/past-presidents/edward-j-bloustein|archive-date=April 26, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> In January 1987, around 2,800 non-teaching employees went on strike for increased salaries, which ended after nine days after an agreement with the administration was made.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Narvaez |first1=Alfonso A. |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=1987-01-20 |title=CLASSES DISRUPTED AS EMPLOYEES STRIKE AT 3 RUTGERS CAMPUSES |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/20/nyregion/classes-disrupted-as-employees-strike-at-3-rutgers-campuses.html |access-date=2023-04-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1987-01-29 |title=PACT ENDS THE RUTGERS STRIKE |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/nyregion/pact-ends-the-rutgers-strike.html |access-date=2023-04-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>