Pending Legal Actions
Against Rider University's Sale of Westminster

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• Two federal lawsuits brought by WCC students, parents, alumni, donors, and former trustees charge Rider’s violation of the merger agreement and that allege Rider perpetuated fraud in their secretive process to divest itself of Westminster. Their suits claim that Rider knew it planned to jeopardize the future of Westminster Choir College, kept this knowledge secret, and admitted students and accepted donations under the fraudulent pretense of “business as usual.” In one of the cases a federal judge in New York turned away Rider’s effort to have the case dismissed. For information regarding one of these lawsuits click here.
  
  
• On February 20, 2018, the Princeton Theological Seminary filed a suit in New Jersey Superior court against Rider claiming Rider violated the terms of the agreement reached by the Seminary, Westminster, and Rider when Rider and Westminster merged in the early 1990s. This suit accuses Rider of violating both the original restrictions in the original gift of land that established the Princeton campus and the 1992 merger agreement between Rider and the Westminster Choir College both of which gave rights to the Princeton Theological Seminary. If the proposed sale is not stopped, the result will be the wanton destruction of a New Jersey cultural gem.
  
  
• On March 29 arbitration proceeding initiated by the Rider AAUP relating to the University’s violation of its bargaining agreement with regard to the improper layoff of WCC’s unionized faculty will begin.