New Jersey Athletic Conference

The New Jersey Athletic Conference was founded in 1985 when the New Jersey State Athletic Conference, a men's sports conference, merged with their corresponding institutions in the Jersey Athletic Conference, a women's sports conference. The 10 founding member institutions were Kean College (now University), Montclair State College (now University), Jersey City State College (now New Jersey City University), Glassboro State College (now Rowan University), Ramapo College, Rutgers University-Camden, Rutgers University-Newark, Stockton State College (now The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey), Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), and William Paterson College (now University).