On July 1, 2019 it was announced that Beijing Kaiwen was withdrawing from the proposed purchase.[12] This was followed by controversial news that Rider would relocate Westminster's programs to the Rider campus in September 2020 and monetize the sale of Westminster's Princeton Campus.[13] At Rider University's commencement exercises on August 29, 2019 Dell'Omo announced that the sale of the relocation of Westminster and the sale of Westminster's Princeton Campus would directly benefit Rider University's ongoing campus investments.