N.J. Governor Wants to Merge Thomas Edison Into Rutgers

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It sounds like it may not happen but it would've been an added bonus to go from an unranked school to a top tier school overnight.

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report

You seem to be missing the fact that there are 3 Rutgers campuses and that one of those is Tier 3. You better bet your bottom dollar that if TESC did get absorbed, there'd be a new diploma that may or may not say 'Rutgers' but its certainly going to be discernable from the Tier 1 campuses diploma...

Rutgers Alumni would have an utter fit, otherwise. Heck, they're having a fit now after the announcement because none of them seem to want to be associated with TESC. They'd probably take over the Museum and Library from TESC, but that is about all they would want.

good point, an elimination of funding would result in a sooner-than-later change. Doubt if TESC is completely scrapped because it has a business model that most larger schools are trying to integrate into their system.

Not really. Larger schools are trying to develop better DL programs than they currently have, yes. But as someone mentioned on another Forum, TESC has canned courses that don't have teachers but 'mentors'. And obviously they're not self-sustaining money-wise. In addition, traditional schools loathe the no-residency requirement. That's why there's the Big 3 (4 if you count Athabasca, but they have 3 yr Bachelors) and not the big 200.

So, no, larger schools are not trying to integrate TESC's business model.