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Kean University students eligible for state Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) awards will receive an average increase of 14% in their funding for the 2024-2025 school year due to Kean’s designation as New Jersey’s urban research university.

Prospective college students of art, architecture and design will be able to get feedback on their creative work at National Portfolio Day, hosted by Kean University on Sunday, September 15.

Kean University’s John S. Watson Institute for Urban Policy and Research celebrates the 100th birthday of its namesake, the late John S. Watson Sr., and will kick off a year of programs and events continuing the visionary leader’s legacy.

Kean University, the state’s urban research university, will serve as the New Jersey Education Partner for the 2024 HBCU NY Classic and host a series of events on its Union campus in advance of the annual football tradition in September. 

Six Kean University students created an Environmental Resource Inventory (ERI) for the Town of Westfield as their senior capstone project, saving the town time and money while also providing a foundation for future planning decisions.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently selected Kean University as the only four-year institution in New Jersey to join its Collegiate Training Initiative focused on the use of unmanned aircraft systems, or drones.

Growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, Lance Marquardt became interested in science as he watched the impact of selective breeding of cows and crops.

Nearly 30 years later, the Kean graduate has traded the rustic outdoors for work in a lab. 

Playwright and Kean University alumnus Benjamin V. Marshall ’73 brought the dramatic history of a New Jersey abolitionist to life for audiences at the Bauer Boucher Theatre Center on Kean’s Union campus.