1000-plus professors may not know what to do during a campus shooting

By: Rebecca Panico | Published October 22,2015 About 1000 Kean University adjuncts — part-time professors who teach the majority of classes on campus —are not paid nor required to take training for what to do in the event of an active shooter on campus. Additionally, it is unclear if Kean’s full-time professors are required to take emergency preparedness training. The information comes in […]

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Visual art of Katherine Ace: A poetic tale perspective

By Gabrielle Gale Prendatt-Carter | Posted September 29, 2015 A conjuror-artist, Katherine Ace’s paintings, displayed in “Behold Revelation: The Fairy Tale Paintings of Katherine Ace,” rearranges the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and brings magic to life. Located in Kean University’s Karl and Helen Burger Art Gallery in the Center for Academic Success until September 30th, 2015, Ace’s angle is one where visual art meets prose with […]

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Ursino temporarily closed for renovations, officials say

By Rebecca Panico | Posted September 29, 2015 Ursino, Kean University’s fine-dining restaurant inside the S.T.E.M. building, has been temporarily closed for renovations, according to the restaurant’s website. “Starting September 8, 2015, we will be closed while we undergo renovations,” the restaurant’s website homepage reads in big, bold text. “We will reopen late Fall 2015.” A spokeswoman for the university, Margaret McCorry, did not elaborate on the cost, […]

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Kean offers new, cheaper meal plan

By: Bhriana Smith | Posted September 29, 2015 Kean University created a new, cheaper meal plan option this semester in the wake of a proposed bill that would ban all colleges from requiring residential students to purchase expensive meal plans. Titled the declining balance option, the new plan option costs $1,500 per semester, according to the meal plan options page located on the homepage of the […]

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False alarm proves readiness of campus police

By Yuri Smishkewych | Posted September 29, 2015 Although the semester had not started yet, a false alarm proved the readiness of campus police in case of an emergency situation. On Freshman Move-In day, in the hubbub of students carting their belongings from the parking lot to their future homes for the semester, an alert Desk Assistant at Whiteman Hall promptly called campus police after observing a man with […]

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