By Kelly Heyboer and Matt Friedman/ The Star-Ledger

PISCATAWAY — State Senate President Stephen Sweeney’s attempt to pass a law eliminating the Rutgers Board of Trustees ran into a legal wall today when experts in the Legislature’s non-partisan legislative services office determined the university board may have to consent to its own demise.

 Rutgers Board of Trustees
The Rutgers Board of Trustees would be eliminated under legislation proposed by Senate President Steve Sweeney. In this file photo, the trustees meet with the Rutgers Board of Governors in New Brunswick last year. Patti Sapone/ The Star-Ledger
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Rutgers’ faculty union sent an e-mail to the school’s professors Wednesday calling on them to phone and e-mail lawmakers to quash the “over-hasty measure.”

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