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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by March 19, 2020 A state order forbidding in-person instruction at higher education facilities to restrict the further spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a loss of work for student employees at Kean University. Kean allows student employment in a variety of departments throughout the school, including the Office of Residential Student Services, the Center for […]
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By Alejandro Arcos | Published by February 20, 2020 The world’s people and their cultures contain many secrets and wonders that baffle, stupefy and amaze the populace with its intrinsic values and moral lessons. One practice, however, leaves empathetic people reeling and wincing from its mere utterance – Female Genital Mutilation, or FGM for short. As the name implies, FGM is the act of […]
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By Cindy Lazo | Published by February 14, 2020 Kean University has announced that it will not be sending students to the Wenzhou Kean campus for the spring semester due to health concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. The cancellation is a precaution as the virus, which originated in Wuhan, China and is 700 miles from Wenzhou-Kean University, continues to spread across the world, […]
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By Salimah McCullough | Published by February 14, 2020 Six General Education lecturers who say they were fired shortly after complaining about student privacy issues caused by a move to open office space have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of Union County on Jan. 13, includes six of 10 GE professors […]
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By Tasha Dowbachuk | Published by February 13, 2020 The eldest son of the late revered civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered an impactful calling for Kean University students to embrace the concepts of social justice and to empower themselves through the power of voting. Martin Luther King III implored Kean University’s students to “rise up” and seize the […]
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By Harold Carias | Published by January 30, 2020 Shock waves were felt across the world as the news of Los Angeles Lakers icon and five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash was reported in Calabasas, California on Jan. 26. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, Bryant, 41, was on board with eight other passengers, including […]
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By Zoe Strozewski | Published by January 29, 2020 Just days before Christmas, the students in Kean University’s Art History department found out that many of their courses were getting cut and their program was in danger of dissolution. Now, they are fighting a fight that they thought most students weren’t even aware exists. The students, all members of the […]
Read moreBy Siobhan Donaldson | Published by November 14, 2019 Five tenure-track professors have received letters from the Office of Academic Affairs not recommending their return next year despite having the full support of their departments. The affected faculty will lose their jobs on June 30 unless President Dawood Farahi chooses to overturn the decision, said James Castiglione, Kean Federation of […]
Read moreBy Erin McGuinness | Published by November 13, 2019 The battle over whether Ursino Steakhouse and Tavern are subject to property taxes is now going to the state Supreme Court. The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear the Township of Union’s appeal in the case of Gourmet Dining LLC vs. Union Township. Ursino, a full-scale restaurant attached to Kean University’s […]
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By Joshua Rosario || Published May 5, 2019 Kean’s top academic official told students in a mass email on May 2 that Kean did not reappoint lecturers — representing nearly half of the lecturers in the School of General Education including some who have worked at Kean for several years — because they did not meet the university’s “rigorous standards.” […]
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