In addition, New Jersey City University Board of Trustees acts on institutional personnel matters. State law removes the faculty, non-teaching professional staff and unclassified managerial staff from the authority once vested with the Department of Personnel (formerly Department of Civil Service). New Jersey’s previous higher education coordinating agency, the state Board of Higher Education (BHE), developed a personnel structure for unclassified and nonaligned professional employees, to govern state college trustee boards in the exercise of their duties and responsibilities relating to personnel matters. The Higher Education Restructuring Act of 1994 required that these and other personnel regulations remain in effect for one year (until July 1, 1995) while the new Commission on Higher Education reviewed state policy in this area. In 1996, New Jersey City University adopted the New Jersey City University Personnel Regulations which were amended in February of 1997.
Listed below are some of the Board’s powers and duties related to personnel matters.
- Presidential Appointment
- Appointment of Faculty and Campus Administrative Staff
- Appointment of Other Officers and Employees
- Labor Negotiations
- Fiscal Exigency/Reduction in Force Policies
Source: NJ State
College Trustee’s Reference Guide, 4th Ed., NJ State Governing Board Association,
Inc., Trenton, NJ, 1994.