College Avenue campus design competition deferred
Archived article from Apr 10, 2006
By Greg Trevor
Rutgers will postpone the next scheduled steps in the international design competition to transform the university’s historic College Avenue campus.
Those steps – an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of submissions from renowned teams of architects and designers, a public presentation of those submissions and deliberations by a jury of experts as well as representatives of faculty, alumni and students – will be deferred until at least the fall 2006 semester.
The university learned recently that state funding may be cut significantly in the coming fiscal year.
“In this difficult environment, we feel that it would be inappropriate to continue the competition this spring and to embark on the next phase of the project while the budget is still being deliberated,” said President Richard L. McCormick in a statement last week.
McCormick added that the reductions proposed for higher education could affect Rutgers’ ability to implement new initiatives. “While we expected to bear our share of the state’s fiscal difficulties,” he said, “the amount proposed forces us to re-evaluate many of our programs, including the College Avenue campus project.”
The revised schedule allows university officials to consider the architectural teams’ proposals and make a decision informed by the final state budget, which by law must be enacted by June 30.
For more information, visit designcompetition.rutgers.edu.
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