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January 19, 2012. Star Ledger. Kean women's basketball coach re-assigned despite 15-3 start to season. By Dave D'Alessandro and Mike Vorkunov
Michele Sharp, the accomplished women's basketball coach at Kean University whose program was charged with numerous NCAA violations in the past year, was forced to leave her position by the administration today and re-assigned within the athletic department.
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January 11, 2012. Union County LocalSource. Farahi who? Never heard of him. Letters from schools show no record of Kean president’s publication claims. By Cheryl Hehl, Staff Writer
January 9, 2012. Inside Higher Ed Kean U. Board Investigates Allegations About President.
January 9, 2012. Chronicle of Higher Education. Kean U. Board Investigates President Over Alleged Spurious Credentials.
January 7, 2012. Wall Street Journal. New Scrutiny for President of University By Heather Haddon
December 9, 2011. Union County LocalSource. The lying king of Kean.Teacher's union alleges school president falsified credentials. By Cheryl Hehl, Staff Writer
November 22, 2011. Union County LocalSource. The Kean mutiny: Faculty fights back. Teachers upset over direction of school, soaring debt; point finger at university president. By Cheryl Hehl, Staff Writer.
Kean University News
Kean University adults pass the buck by banning teams from playoffs
Published: Sunday, October 23, 2011, 4:45 AM
By Dave D'Alessandro/Star-Ledger Columnist
This is peak season of sensory overload for sports enthusiasts, so we like to get away from the high-volume stuff — the World Series, the weekly football blather, the latest NBA lockout piffle, and the start of hockey — by checking out the NJAC women’s soccer standings.
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Kean University professor: Remove President Dawood Farahi, board
Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 8:29 AM
By Letters to the Editor/The Star-Ledger
Ed Murray/The Star-LedgerKean University President Dawood Farahi
Kean out of control
Two articles published in The Star-Ledger on July 5 and 6 — “Colleges threatened with loss of accreditation” and “Hedden standing tall as NCAA investigates Kean” — should finally alert the rest of the media, the public, the New Jersey Commission of Higher Education and the governor’s office that management of Kean University is seriously out of control and needs immediate fixing. This must begin with the removal of Kean’s president, Dawood Farahi, and the leadership of the board of trustees.
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In Kean University lawsuit, a warning for other college sports programs
Friday, July 08, 2011, 6:16 AM
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
Patti Sapone/The Star-LedgerFormer Kean athletic director Glenn Hedden poses at his home in Manasquan.
Grade fixing. Laughable courses (poof!) invented just for women’s basketball players and (ssshh!) secretly added to the curriculum so players could boost sagging grade-point averages and meet credit requirements. A whistle-blowing athletic director fired. Teachers, coaches and administrators forming an unsavory cover-up alliance.
That’s some indictment. So, which win-at-all-costs college is facing these allegations? The University of Miami? LSU? Auburn? Michigan?
Nope, lil ol’ Kean University.
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Kean University, Essex County College issued warnings after failing reviews
Wednesday, July 06, 2011, 7:30 AM
Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger
Two of New Jersey’s largest public colleges — Kean University and Essex County College — could lose their accreditation for failing to measure student progress or their own institution’s effectiveness.
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As NCAA investigates Kean, former AD Glenn Hedden stands tall
Tuesday, July 05, 2011, 12:01 PM
By Dave D'Alessandro/Star-Ledger Columnist
Today we present a dichotomy that may be unprecedented in college athletics — big-time, small-time, any time.
It’s about an athletic director who took the requisite measures to preserve, protect and defend a university’s ivory tower reputation, while the educators around him allegedly decided the women’s basketball team was more important than the school’s academic integrity.
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John Legend earns $25K as Kean University commencement speaker
Friday, May 13, 2011, 11:36 AM
John Legend performs during the Kean University commencement. (John O'Boyle/The Star-Ledger).
UNION — Singer John Legend took the stage at Kean University’s graduation Thursday and gave an impassioned 15-minute speech calling upon the graduates to use their education to give back to their communities.
"Take that gift and go forth in the world with a mission for good," Legend said. "Find ways to give. Find ways to serve. Find ways to contribute to society."
Then, the nine-time Grammy winner sat at a piano in his graduation gown and played his hit "Green Light" and the 1970s social anthem "Wake Up Everybody" to a standing ovation from the record 2,730 graduates at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel.
Legend’s bill: $25,000.
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At Kean University, is the professor in?
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 6:31 AM
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
Filling out a time sheet might not sound like a big deal, but some full-time faculty at Kean University think otherwise. They’re indignant that, since last month, they’ve had to sign and submit a biweekly sheet showing they work 35 hours a week.
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Kean University to eliminate departments, majors to deal with budget shortfall
Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 5:22 AM
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger
UNION TOWNSHIP -- Kean University will eliminate nearly all academic departments and overhaul the structure of the state’s third-largest public university, despite objections from its faculty union, school officials said today.
The restructuring — which university administrators say will save nearly $2 million — will remove 38 department chairs from their posts and return them to the classroom. Under the plan, they will be replaced with executive directors and program coordinators who will manage 18 newly-consolidated schools on the Union Township campus.
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Kean’s board of trustees voted Monday to move ahead with the plan over the objections of several professors and students.
"Those voices were summarily ignored," said James Castiglione, an associate professor of physics and president of the Kean Federation of Teachers, the faculty union.
Kean’s professors have a long history of feuding with Farahi, who has been president of the 15,000-student university since 2003. Last week, the majority of the faculty voted against the president in a "no confidence" vote organized by their union.
Union leaders said the restructuring may violate the faculty’s contract and disputed it would save $2 million. They also questioned whether the overhaul was really designed to replace unionized department chairs with non-unionized managers.
"It’s not about saving money ... it’s about faculty control," Castiglione said.
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