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By Anastasia Zhelezova | Published by April 21, 2020 COVID-19 is the reason that schools, bars, restaurants, and your favorite nail salon are now closed. To reduce the spread of the virus, the government advised everyone to stay home. So what does this insinuate in terms of internships for college students? And what is Kean University doing to assure that students get the credit needed […]
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By Wynter Aiken | Published by April 21, 2020 Inside the classroom to some students is a safe haven, an open door full of differing voices, identities, and perspectives, especially for students of the LGBTQ+ community. Members of the Diversity Council and Holocaust Resource Center came together on April 1 to present the LGBTQ+: New Approaches to Classroom Safety and Inclusion program, […]
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By Tasha Dowbachuk | Published by April 21, 2020 Kean graduate Eric Cruz, his brother Ryan Cruz, and their friend Kevin Zamora dove into the dangerous waters of business and succeeded on ABC network’s reality television show Shark Tank. The three pitched their shoe brand “Muvez,” a specialized engineered convertible shoe, and won over the sharks through the airing of the episode on Friday, April 3. “The […]
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By Alexander Valdes | Published by April 20, 2020 Not many people can say they have experienced a true life of hardship and strife, though not many people today were alive during the events of the Holocaust, except one individual who wanted to share her story, Maud Dahme. A Zoom meeting hosted by the Holocaust Resource Center on April 6 […]
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By Valerie Sanabria | Published by April 20, 2020 For Samantha Medrano, it feels like her trip from Ambato, Ecuador to the United States was such a long time ago, but in fact, only five years have passed since she emigrated. Besides studying Business and Management at Kean University, Sammy-as people know her- is an entrepreneur, a YouTuber, and a photography lover. It […]
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By Lena Zhu | Published by April 20, 2020 Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company at Kean University, announced a new writing initiative during the COVID-19 crisis. The writing competition, named “Senior Endeavor Awards” will offer $1,000 to a Kean University senior, a rising New Jersey high school senior, and a senior citizen who creates a one-act play related either […]
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By Lena Zhu | Published April 19, 2020 Many students are forced to self-quarantine during the COVID-19 crisis. Although this may be a slight inconvenience to some, there are still a number of struggling students not knowing when or where they are going to get their next meal. To Kean students who are struggling, Susan R. Figueroa, Managing Assistant Director for […]
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By Craig Epstein | Published by April 18, 2020 With Kean University being turned into a coronavirus testing site, the programming for the school’s radio station WKNJ 90.3 has become a continuous loop of a public service announcement explaining the steps that those who are being tested must go through. “Audrey Kelly from the president’s office contacted me to see […]
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By Tasha Dowbachuk | Published by April 18, 2020 Professor Gina Gili in the School of Communication, Media & Journalism, develops a social media documentary titled, Sheltered In Place, which captures the current realities that students are facing under quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were sent a mass email, urging them to answer in-depth questions on camera from the safety […]
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