Tight budgets force N.J. colleges to lay off employees - Kelly Heyboer, The Star-Ledger

Rutgers and Kean will be among the local universities handing out layoff notices as students return to class for the fall semester, campus officials said Tuesday. Pink slips have already begun going out at Kean University in Union, where 26 positions will be eliminated, a school spokesman said. At Rutgers, employees will be notified about layoffs within the next few weeks. But officials at the state university declined to say how many of the school’s 13,000 employees will lose their jobs.