Shim v. Rutgers-The State University

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is a statutorily defined “public institution[ ] of higher education[,]” N.J.S.A 18A:62-1, that traces its lineage to a royal charter dated November 10, 1766. N.J.S.A. 18A:65-2. From that genesis, its special position in New Jersey’s system of public higher education has been cemented as an institution “impressed with a public trust for higher education of the people of the state of New Jersey; and which is the instrumentality of the state for the purpose of operating the state university.” Ibid. In furtherance of Rutgers’s mission, the Legislature…