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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by October 5, 2020 Dr. Lamont Repollet, Kean’s new president, is reversing the controversial retrenchment of music faculty in what may be a new era of cooperation between the university and the Kean Federation of Teachers (KFT). Additionally, an area that Repollet pinpointed for needing improvement in his Aug. 31 Opening Day Address was faculty […]
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By Erin McGuinness | Published by September 20th, 2019 The Kean University Board of Trustees appointed a Pennsylvania firm Monday to open a search to replace controversial President Dawood Farahi, who is stepping down at the end of the school year after 17 years at Kean’s helm. The announcement came after an hour-long public meeting at the new Liberty Hall […]
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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 Rebecca Panico | Published Jan. 30, 2017 Kean University President Dawood Farahi today asked the the Trump administration to reconsider an executive order which restricted immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. “The University community understands and supports the need of the federal government to protect U.S. citizens,” Farahi said in a statement sent to all students, faculty and staff. […]
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By Micayela Konviser | Published Sept. 27, 2016 Kean University President Dawood Farahi, in his Opening Day address kicking off the new school year, said the college will build a new dormitory on the grounds of the Campus School North buildings and will relocate the Child Care Center to the Technology Building. “Not only our students get the best facilities, […]
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Video produced by David Long | Published Sept. 27, 2016 The Tower quizzed students on Kean facts: Who is the university named after and what is the name of our university president? The university is named after the Kean family, which includes John Kean — who served as a member of the Second Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787 — and […]
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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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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 […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published April 21, 2016 A state Comptroller’s report looking into how students’ fees are used at Kean and two other colleges has yet to be released, although multiple officials say they were told it would be issued in late 2015. Former spokesman for the Comptroller’s Office Pete McAleer said the report — which would also review […]
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By Anthony N. Muccigrossi | Published April 7, 2016 With just over a month before Kean students cross the stage and become graduates, the commencement speakers who will be accompanying them have been announced. Photographer Brandon Stanton — the creator of Humans of New York — and astronaut Captain Mark Kelly, who has over 50 days in space with NASA, have […]
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