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By Rebecca Panico | Published June 2, 2016 A state Comptroller’s report showed Kean University broke state law and its own internal policies when purchasing a lavish $250,000 table from China that sits in the sixth floor of the Green Lane Academic building. More: Read the full report President Dawood Farahi “gave the green light” to officials at the Wenzhou […]
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Short documentary by Yuri Smishkewych. By Rebecca Panico | Published May 22, 2016 Tower News Editor Yuri Smishkewych, who graduated this May, leaves his mark at the student newspaper with this short documentary about his perspective on climate change. Smishkewych explored how scientists can explain the complex issue of climate change to those outside the science community by interviewing Kean faculty such as […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published May 18, 2016 Emily Cubilete, the newly elected Student Organization president, said the Board of Trustees’ May 9 decision to increase late fees and the cost to enroll in a tuition payment plan will “help students” once Kean takes over payment services. More: Being a broke Kean student just got more expensive The vote comes at […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published May 15, 2016 The presidents of the three college that were audited in a recent state Comptroller’s report which assessed student fees testified Thursday at a legislative hearing in Trenton. More: Watch the live stream of the hearing Kean University, William Paterson University (WPU) and The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) were named in the […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published May 11, 2016 Kean University’s Board of Trustees voted Monday to increase late fees and the cost to enroll in a tuition payment plan without any public discussion, though the adopted resolution omitted some important facts. More: Read the full resolution here The unanimous vote follows a state Comptroller’s report issued two weeks ago that […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published May 10, 2016 A report released yesterday by the university at a Board of Trustees meeting concluded that African American students and employees at Kean are “not subject to institutional or structural discrimination.” More: Jump to a summary of the data in the report by clicking here The report comes after a coalition of black ministers led […]
Read moreBy Elijah Tarik Powell | Published May 10, 2016 A sunny and carefree day at Kean University was eclipsed by one guest speaker’s story of sexual abuse and depression. On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 12, Kean University students, mostly those who were members of various Greek sororities and fraternities, sat in the Miron Student Center’s theater to watch Tim […]
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By Bhriana Smith | Published May 9, 2016 Kean University held its third annual dance marathon on Friday, April 15, 2016 from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. in Downs Hall on Kean University’s main campus. The dance marathon is a 12-hour fundraising event hosted by Kean’s Greek Senate. The marathon is a celebration which commemorates the year-long fundraising efforts of the students benefiting […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published May 3, 2016 Assemblywoman Mila Jasey (D – Essex/Morris) called for a legislative hearing looking into the fees public colleges charge students following a Comptroller’s report released last week. MORE: Kean rejects most of Comptroller’s findings in student fee report The report tracked how Kean, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and William Paterson University (WPU) […]
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By Babatunde Dahunsi | Published April 29, 2016 Student Organization selects the commencement speakers each year, but they do so without taking a vote from the student body and must get approval from the university. The designated undergraduate commencement speaker for 2016 at Kean is Brandon Stanton photographer and founder of Humans of New York, a prominent blog that presents […]
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