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By Ruben Nieves | Published by September 22, 2020 The Kean Ocean campus located in Toms River has been approved to offer a journalism concentration in their communication major starting in the Spring 2021 semester. Students from the campus will have the opportunity to be involved with Kean’s school newspaper, The Tower. The decision to add the journalism program to […]
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By Chelsey Jaipersaud | Published by September 22, 2020 Since the transition to complete remote learning, many are facing difficulties in keeping up with their assignments and requirements for each class, as Kean students will be using Blackboard Collaborate for all live sessions, assignment submissions, and engaging with other students through the discussion board as of the 2020 fall semester. Within […]
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By Tiye Bracy | Published by September 22, 2020 The Greek Senate held its first virtual Meet the Greeks event on Sept. 16. “This year, Meet the Greeks was 100% virtual using the feature of Virtual Fairs on Cougar Link,” said Graduate Intern of Greek Affairs Gabriella Lapointe. The Greek Senate is greek life which encourages members of the organization […]
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By Zoe Strozewski, Editor-in-Chief | Published by September 1, 2020 As we begin the fall semester, I want to impart a critical plea to my fellow students: do not treat this semester like semesters of the past because it is the opposite of ordinary. The consequences of irresponsible student behavior and a COVID-19 outbreak on campus could be devastating to […]
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By Zoe Strozewski, Editor-in-Chief | Published by June 5, 2020 Kean University frequently likes to tout its status as one of the most diverse schools in the country. In fact, that statistic is front and center on the Kean website’s home page. However, the Kean community only heard crickets from the school administration for days after George Floyd was murdered. […]
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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by May 13, 2020 Kean’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the university to suspend various academic programs and take other actions to offset a $20 million deficit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite pleas from faculty, students and alumni at its May 11 meeting. President Dawood Farahi, PhD, told the board and […]
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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by May 11, 2020 Lamont Repollet, Ed.D, New Jersey’s current commissioner of education, will serve as the 18th president of Kean. The Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution tonight at their May 11 meeting to approve his appointment. “I am delighted to lend my support one thousand percent to our next president, Dr. Lamont […]
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By Emily Robles | Published by May 11, 2020 The office of Student Government officially announced its election results for the new 2020-2021 school year. The results were posted on Cougar Link on April.16 with senior Lindsey Gonzalez being elected Executive Board President with over 300 votes and senior Alyssa Edgar elected as Executive Vice President with over 300 votes […]
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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by May 8, 2020 The Kean University Senate sent a letter to the Board of Trustees that meets on Monday to not allow a controversial retrenchment of the art history program’s tenured faculty and copied the correspondence to both the state and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which accredits the university. The Middle […]
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By Craig Epstein | Published by May 8, 2020 I can still remember walking around the Harwood Arena and meeting with the various clubs/organizations during Kean University’s freshman orientation. Going into college, I knew I wanted to be a journalist so I had to find out how I was going to get my start. And, after searching for a bit […]
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