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Empowering Our Future: Inside Kean University's Center for Africana Studies

Empowering Our Future: Inside Kean University's Center for Africana Studies

Discover the Center for Africana Studies at Kean University, a hub for cultural exploration and social justice. Join us as we honor history, forge our future and unite communities.

Mike Milazzo, wearing a dark suit and red tie, looks outward.
Kean Graduate Honors Parents, Professors with Endowed Scholarship

Kean Graduate Honors Parents, Professors with Endowed Scholarship

A 2011 Kean University graduate is giving back to his alma mater with a scholarship for communication students in honor of his parents and two of his former professors in the Department of Communication, Media and Journalism (CMJ).

Kean Theatre Conservatory production
Kean Offers Students New Options in Musical Theatre, Exercise Science

Kean Offers Students New Options in Musical Theatre, Exercise Science

New undergraduate program options offered at Kean will help students prepare for careers in two different fields, exercise science and theatre.
The Disney Logo with the words, Behind the Screens
Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution Technology Works with Kean Students

Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution Technology Works with Kean Students

A group of Kean communication students is getting an inside view of Disney and ABC Television as part of a virtual program that exposes college students from diverse backgrounds to what happens behind the scenes in network television.
Sandra Bodin-Lerner leads students through an exercise in Listening class
The Power of Listening

The Power of Listening

To be a better speaker, first learn to be a better listener.

Kean Adjunct Professor Sandra Bodin-Lerner, a professional communication coach who trains people in public speaking, shares that message with Kean students through the University’s Communication and Listening class.

Executive Director of the Kean University School of Social Sciences, Vicky Cannon, Ph.D.
Q&A: What We’re Learning as the Presidential Votes Are Tallied

Q&A: What We’re Learning as the Presidential Votes Are Tallied

Vicky Cannon, Ph.D., executive director of Kean's School of Social Sciences, says the presidential election results so far show some surprises and raise important concerns about the future of our democracy.
Kean history professors Dennis Klein, Xurong Kong and Christopher Bellitto
Kean History Professors Receive National Honors

Kean History Professors Receive National Honors

Three history faculty members at Kean have received national recognition and grant support for their scholarly research, bringing academic distinction to the University in the United States and abroad.
Daniela Derius Rodriguez, Kean Class of 2020, poses with a photo of her mother.
Amid COVID-19 Sickness and Loss, Kean Student Graduates with Honors

Amid COVID-19 Sickness and Loss, Kean Student Graduates with Honors

Daniela Derius-Rodriguez recently lost her mother and grandfather to COVID-19, but the Kean senior pushed through sorrow and her own bout with the illness to graduate with top honors, just as her mother would have wanted.
Jennifer Zuniga, Kean art history student, smiles in front of the Newark Museum
Newark Museum Internship Puts Kean Senior on Path Toward Arts Leadership

Newark Museum Internship Puts Kean Senior on Path Toward Arts Leadership

Kean University art history student Jennifer Zuniga is being groomed as a future leader in the art world with a prestigious three-year internship at the Newark Museum. The Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative internship exposes college students to the full range of museum departments, paying them while training them in all aspects of the business.
Theatre and Music Students Perform with Tony Winner Kelli O’Hara

Theatre and Music Students Perform with Tony Winner Kelli O’Hara

You know you’re having a good day when Tony Award-winner Kelli O’Hara insists on singing a second song with you before a sold-out crowd. That’s what happened to 20 Kean University theatre and music students who auditioned to perform To Build a Home from the Broadway show The Bridges of Madison County with O’Hara at her recent Kean Stage concert.