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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by May 11, 2020 Lamont Repollet, Ed.D, New Jersey’s current commissioner of education, will serve as the 18th president of Kean. The Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution tonight at their May 11 meeting to approve his appointment. “I am delighted to lend my support one thousand percent to our next president, Dr. Lamont […]
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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 Zoe Strozewski | Published by May 5, 2020 Kean University’s administration is requiring all faculty to become Blackboard-certified to teach this summer or next fall in case the pandemic crisis continues — stricter guidelines that some say is already resulting in fewer course offerings in the summer sessions. An April 30 email from Suzanne Bousquet, Ph.D. and vice president […]
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By Emily Robles | Published by April 19, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, especially in the United States, Kean University is now recognized as an official testing site for the coronavirus in the state of New Jersey. On March 23, the county of Union opened the testing site in the Vaughn Eames Parking Lot […]
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By Erin McGuinness | Published by April 17, 2020 As the number of positive COVID-19 cases rise in New Jersey, some Kean University students are on the front lines working to keep their communities safe. Kean Students Mouaaz Hassan, a sophomore majoring in business, and Samantha Miller, a junior majoring in communications are emergency medical technicians with their local first aid squads. […]
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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by April 17, 2020 Kean University’s announcement that students may choose a pass/fail grade for up to two courses this semester because of its move to online classes amid the coronavirus pandemic is getting mixed reactions from students. A University Relations email on March 26 informed all students, faculty, and staff of the new grading […]
Read moreBy Siobhan Donaldson | Published by March 22, 2020 Kean University along with many other universities have suspended their student trips abroad due to concerns about the COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus, outbreaks across the world. On February 29th, students registered for travel abroad programs, also known as Travelearns, received an email from The Center of International Studies that their trips would be […]
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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by March 22, 2020 Kean University students have launched two separate petitions that call for modifying this semester’s grades because the move to online instruction in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic has upended lives and created undue hardships. As of March 21, the petitions have garnered more than 3,000 signatures in a two-day span. One […]
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By Salimah McCullough | Published by March 21, 2020 In late February, students launched a petition that was sent around campus in hopes of changing the minds of President Dawood Farahi and the Kean Administration regarding the changes in class sizes scheduled to come next semester. Caitlyn Magee, a Kean junior pursuing a degree in Communication/ Public Relations created the petition titled, Take Back […]
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By Cindy Lazo | Published by March 21, 2020 Kean University announced that all in-person classes will be suspended until the end of the semester as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase in the state and nationwide. The announcement sent out to students, faculty, and staff on Mar. 19, cited the new guidelines from the state and federal government for […]
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