Dr. Saul K. Fenster President of NJIT and Christine Todd Whitman Governor of the State of New Jersey

NEWARK - N.J. - Gov. Christine Todd Whitman will sign the Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund Act at 11 a.m. Tuesday Sept. 21 in Room 1400 of the Guttenberg Information Technology Center on the campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

The $550 million provided under the bill is designed to help New Jersey colleges and universities repair or rebuild aging buildings. NJIT will receive $61 million under the legislation, with the balance to be shared by the state's other two public research universities, Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry; eight state colleges; and 14 private schools.

Schools in northern New Jersey will be able to watch the Governor sign the Higher Education Bond Act at 11:00 am today on their BAIDLS connection. Counties and channels are as follows:

Schools in the southern part of the state can call 973-596-3433 to obtain a telephone number to call into an ISDN bridge to watch the ceremony.

NJIT is a public research university enrolling nearly 8,200 bachelor's, master's and doctoral students in 76 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, multimedia, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science.

Yahoo! Internet Life magazine has ranked NJIT the "most wired" public university for two consecutive years, U.S. News and World Report's 1999 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT among the nation's top universities, and Money magazine's most recent issue of Best College Buys rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology schools and among the top 100 overall. In September 1999, Mademoiselle ranked NJIT as the second most Internet-connected university in the nation.