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Kean University has launched "Urban Impact," a podcast featuring Kean scholars as well as community leaders and others that examines the complex issues facing urban communities. In the first episode, "What Is Urban Research Anyway?," Kean Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David S. Birdsell, Ph.D., explains Kean’s important role as New Jersey’s first urban research university. 

The University will receive more than $4 million for a series of new initiatives tied to its designation as an urban research university under the federal spending bill signed into law by President Biden.

Two teams of students from Kean's College of Business and Public Management will be among teams from 17 institutions nationwide competing in a simulation to increase export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products.

A recycling project with a tangible result had Kean students lugging plastic bags, plastic packaging and various plastic waste to class this semester.

As a docent at the Historical Society of Ocean Grove, Andrew McGeady combines wit and wisdom to lead tours and tell the stories of the town’s history.

Equity in Action Presidential Fellow Saran Nurse, Ph.D., who teaches in the College of Business and Public Management, has received a grant to research the resiliency of Black-owned businesses to four types of external disruptions: natural disaster, COVID-19, civil unrest and gentrification.

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education has reaffirmed Kean University’s accreditation following a two-year self-study process at New Jersey’s urban research university. The next self-study evaluation will occur in 2029-2030.

Kean is working to smooth the path to college for first-generation and minority students by piloting a new type of college admissions process from the Common App.

Kean’s College of Business and Public Management and the Department of Environmental and Sustainability Sciences hosted a forum on the role of businesses in addressing climate change.