The Federated College System

There were now five colleges in the Federated System, namely Rutgers, Douglass, University College, Livingston, and Cook. Each College had the following components:

• A dean and complete administration
• A faculty, comprised of faculty in each of the basic liberal arts areas (English composition, Sociology, Psychology, etc., with branches of science departments on each campus. The balance of the respective faculties was made up of those in the disciplines of specializations and professional strengths on each campus.
• A student body.
• Each college had its own student life program and dean of students.
• Each College faculty had considerable say about the admissions requirements for that college, the graduation requirements of that college, what majors would be offered. All colleges offered the basic liberal arts majors.
• All but Cook required 120 credits for a BA/BS degree; Cook required 128.

Technically, students admitted to and resident at any of the college campuses could major in areas not represented on their “home” campus - - for example, Livingston students could major in Cook majors. In reality this idea was only realized in some colleges with some majors.