By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
The future of Rider University’s Westminster Choir College is expected to be decided this month, as speculation about whether the school leaves Princeton will finally be settled at a meeting of Rider’s trustees., Trustees are scheduled to meet March 28, with a decision expected that day, said Rider spokeswoman Kristine Brown by phone Thursday. No further details were released, and no decisions have been made., Rider has been studying the possibility of selling the more than 20-acre Westminster campus and moving the school to the main Rider campus in Lawrenceville. Rider President Gregory G. Dell’ Omo last year raised that prospect, at a time when Rider is facing projected budget shortfalls and missed enrollment projections., But alumni and students of Westminster have mobilized to keep that move from happening, even as the university said a decision was coming soon. A representative for the Coalition to Save Westminster Choir College in Princeton could not be reached for comment., Westminster has been located in Princeton since 1932, home to about about 430 undergraduate and graduate students., The municipality also will want to know what happens., Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, in February, disclosed that she had met with Dell’Omo to express the town’s desire for Westminster to stay in Princeton.
