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By Ruben Nieves | Published by May 3, 2021 This month Kean officially switched the way students register for courses from KeanWise to an all-new program called Student Planner. April 6 was the first day to start registering for courses in the new program. To access the student planner, students log in to their KeanWise account and the student planner […]
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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 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 Erin McGuinness | Published by October 24, 2019 The search for Kean University’s 18th president might not be the open, transparent process many campus constituencies urged during last month’s public Board of Trustees meeting. Consultants from Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates, the search firm hired to work closely with the Presidential Search Committee, have been meeting with various groups to discuss […]
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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 Rebecca Panico | Published April 17, 2017 New Jersey’s Senate president told The Tower that Kean University still needs to fulfill its promise made more than a year ago to let an outside auditor review its practices related to charges of institutional racism. Kean was at the center of a controversy last year after a coalition of black ministers […]
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By Joshua Rosario | Published April 7, 2017 The mayor of the Township of Union addressed Kean University’s Board of Trustees at its public meeting on Monday, March 6, about the university’s plans for construction of new residence halls on the grounds of the Campus School North buildings. Suzette Cavadas spoke against the University’s plans, claiming that the university did […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published March 7, 2017 Kean University’s Board of Trustees voted again on a resolution from December 2014 regarding job appointments, which recently gained scrutiny after a court ruled the trustees’ actions null and void. MORE: Read the full resolution An appellate division of Union County Superior Court ruled Feb. 8 that the university violated the Open […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published June 28, 2016 Kean University’s Board of Trustees approved Monday a 2.5 percent — or a $289 — tuition and fee increase for the upcoming school year and also raised another late fee. Any student who registers for classes after July 28, the payment due date, will be charged $105. Anyone registering on the first day of […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published June 21, 2016 Thirty-five immigrants hailing from countries as far away as Haiti to France were sworn in Monday as United States citizens at Kean University’s Liberty Hall Museum, the university announced in a press release. The naturalization ceremony was a first for Liberty Hall, which served as the home of New Jersey’s first governor, William Livingston, […]
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