New Jersey City University has suspended all employees’ school-issued credit cards in a bid to rein in spending that faculty critics have called an “abuse of taxpayer money.” Chief Financial Officer Ben Durant Thursday night announced a handful of cost-cutting steps – including a moratorium on all non-essential spending and catered meals for employee-related on campus events — in an email to the NJCU community. The suspension of the credit cards, known as “purchase cards (P-Cards for short)” is long overdue, say faculty members who brought numerous examples of questionable spending to the sch…
