Thomas Edison State College has received $700,000 in grants that will enable it to provide scholarships to about 50 nursing students over the next three years. They will participate in an intensive one-year program that addresses a looming nurse shortage in New Jersey — as older nurses retire and aging baby boomers need more medical care.

The New Jersey Medicinal and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act has, within its first year, brought changes that Rowan President Dr. Ali Houshmand is calling in a news release “the most tremendous and promising transformation we have celebrated in our 90-year history.”

Fairleigh Dickinson is welcoming a new dean into its midst, and this one has a focus in business.

Kean University announced this week its completion of a $2.4 million renovation of its Nathan Weiss Graduate College, which was funded in part by the Building our Future Bond Act of 2012.

For a time, it was a breeding ground for New Jersey's real estate industry. That's how George Jacobs recalls Rutgers Business School in the 1980s, tracing a “generation” of developers, finance experts and other executives to the Newark campus. About two dozen of them, in fact, led by former MBA professor Richard Marshall.

Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown will take over July 1 as chair of Rutgers University's Board of Governors, university officials said.