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What’s heartbreaking is that if you conduct a www.Google.com search on the term ‘college merger’, you will discover that these plans for mergers are rampant across this nation right now…What this means is the country is in a deep financial pitfall…and state lawmakers across the country are looking at mergers within institutes of higher education as a way to save money. My concern as both alumni and a current student of TESC, is if this does happen then will Rutgers have to reissue our degrees and transcripts, for education verification purposes? YES! I don’t like the fact that the Governor does not actually lay out a plan of action. I mean we are talking about two regionally accredited educational institutions of higher learning here…with plenty of current students and graduates’ records that would need to be transferred…all of the classes and grade inputs that will need to be done, and all of the updated diploma requests and official transcript requests that will be desired by graduates for their educational verification purposes…I just don’t see a cost savings in all of this. I mean to me Rutgers would be getting a huge headache, and the Governor and the Lt. Governor are fools to think that by cutting several staff jobs and overhead as the Lt. Governor stated regarding current TESC staff, that will some how save the state money over the long term, they are wrong. Because Rutgers and the State of New Jersey would be sued I’m sure of it, by tens of thousands of graduates of TESC and current students of Edison, if Rutgers wanted to charge them with the cost of sending them their first copy of these records for free which is the norm… So who will pick up the cost of printing all of these new diplomas…because I for one would demand one should this merger occur… I would want my records updated and my degrees attached to the active institution’s name, and I wouldn’t want to spend one red cent for that either… I mean for the life of me, I simply do not see a cost savings, when Rutgers will have the added costs of tens of thousands of student records information inputs, grades, classes…and diploma printing costs and so forth… This Governor needs to do more research into college mergers before trying to move this mountain.