[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 166 (Monday, November 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S7862]
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 SENATE RESOLUTION 311--HONORING RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW 
          JERSEY, AS RUTGERS CELEBRATES ITS 250TH ANNIVERSARY

  Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. Booker) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:

                              S. Res. 311

       Whereas on November 10, 1766, the Royal Governor of New 
     Jersey, William Franklin, granted a charter in the name of 
     King George III for the establishment of Queen's College;
       Whereas in 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers in 
     honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, a university trustee and 
     Revolutionary War veteran;
       Whereas in 1864, Rutgers was designated as a land-grant 
     college, offering educational access to a wide range of 
     students who would become the new workforce for expanding 
     businesses, factories, and farms of the United States;
       Whereas in 1869, Rutgers became the birthplace of college 
     football by hosting a game against Princeton University and 
     winning 6 to 4;
       Whereas in 1946, the University of Newark became part of 
     Rutgers, laying the foundation for Rutgers University-Newark;
       Whereas in 1950, the College of South Jersey became part of 
     Rutgers, giving rise to Rutgers University-Camden;
       Whereas in 1945 and 1956, the New Jersey State legislature 
     designated Rutgers as the State University of New Jersey;
       Whereas in 1989, Rutgers became a member of the Association 
     of American Universities, an association of the top research 
     universities in the United States and Canada;
       Whereas with the integration of most of the University of 
     Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey into Rutgers School of 
     Biomedical and Health Sciences in 2013, Rutgers undertook the 
     largest merger in the history of higher education in the 
     United States;
       Whereas in 2014, Rutgers joined the Big Ten Conference, 
     bringing the long history of collegiate athletics at Rutgers 
     into the storied conference comprised of highly regarded, 
     research-intensive flagship universities;
       Whereas in 2014, Rutgers joined the Committee on 
     Institutional Cooperation, the premier consortium of top-tier 
     research institutions in the United States;
       Whereas as of November 2015, Rutgers--
       (1) educates more than 65,000 students at 31 schools;
       (2) employs more than 22,000 faculty and staff;
       (3) records more than 1,700,000,000 patient visits 
     annually; and
       (4) boasts more than 460,000 living alumni worldwide;
       Whereas the 250th anniversary of the establishment of 
     Rutgers is November 10, 2016;
       Whereas the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the 
     establishment of Rutgers begins on November 10, 2015, with 
     Charter Day festivities on the lawn of Old Queens and will 
     continue through November 10, 2016; and
       Whereas Rutgers exemplifies all of the traditions of higher 
     education in the United States because Rutgers is the only 
     university in the United States that is--
       (1) a colonial college;
       (2) a land-grant college; and
       (3) a comprehensive public research university: Now, 
     therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate honors Rutgers, the State 
     University of New Jersey, as Rutgers celebrates 250 years of 
     rich history as a colonial college, a land-grant institution, 
     and a great State university that has been a source of pride 
     for New Jersey and the people of the United States since 
     1766.

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