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Written by Erin McGuinness based on reports from Rafaela Teixeira, Craig Epstein, Valencia Stevenson and Joshua Rosario || Published May 7, 2019 The Board of Trustees at it’s May 6 meeting took no action on Kean’s controversial decision to let go of four professional staff and 13 lecturers, including half of the lecturers in General Education, despite a raucous campus walk-out […]
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By Joshua Rosario || Published May 5, 2019 Kean’s top academic official told students in a mass email on May 2 that Kean did not reappoint lecturers — representing nearly half of the lecturers in the School of General Education including some who have worked at Kean for several years — because they did not meet the university’s “rigorous standards.” […]
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Published by May 5, 2019 Award-winning actor Jeff Daniels, known as the ethical TV anchor in HBO’s series “The Newsroom” and the lovable half-wit in the comedy “Dumb & Dumber,” among numerous other roles, is Kean University’s undergraduate commencement speaker on May 23 at the Prudential Center in Newark, according to a news release. Comedian and actress Nancy Giles, the […]
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By Salimah McCullough | Published by April 30, 2019 A post on the Kean University official Instagram account advertising a newly renovated and improved Miron Student Center was taken down by the university after it drew numerous negative responses. The post on April 9 showed an artist’s rendering of a newly-renovated MSC and said the improvements will include a larger […]
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By Joshua Rosario | Published April 22, 2019 Ten of Kean University’s 21 General Education lecturers who advise and oversee about half of the freshmen class as well as teach will be let go this summer and were not given a reason. The group of GE lecturers let go consist of all four of the GE lecturers in English, two […]
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By David Janes | Published by April 18, 2019 A vigil was held to commemorate the victims of the New Zealand attack, at 7 p.m. on March 26. A gunman targeted two mosques opening fire and killing at least 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, while streaming it live on Facebook. The video streamed live, with the shooter arriving and […]
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By Joshua Rosario | Published by April 18, 2019 Six students returned to their classroom in Bruce Hall on March 26 to find their laptops and wallets missing. They had been out on a lab assignment with their professor and had left their personal belongings in the classroom, which had been locked behind them. The ecology class left the lockedroom […]
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By Craig Epstein | Published by April 18, 2019 Podcaster and Adjunct Professor Anthony Nicoletti was a student at Manhattan College when he realized that he wanted to make a career out of talking about sports. “We had a radio show at Manhattan College as a three man show which included myself, my co host now, and our hockey insider […]
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By Kelly Contreras | Published by April 18, 2019 Every day an endless number of students and faculty enter and leave the buildings on Kean University’s Union campus, but it seems few know the real names of our buildings. Students and faculty may refer to some buildings by nicknames like “CAS” or “the library” rather than the actual formal names. […]
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By Anastasia Zhelezova | Published by April 15, 2019 Chances are you’ve probably heard about the recent college admissions bribery scandal. People, particularly wealthy people, went to extreme lengths to get their children into Ivy League and prominent American universities. Girls and boys who’ve never spent a single day playing a particular sport suddenly receive a scholarship for it. But […]
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