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What is the Kean story?

The Office of University Relations today launches a Kean News email digest designed to showcase news, videos, photography and social media content about the students, alumni, faculty and staff who shape the Kean story.

The Kean University Gospel Choir is racking up more professional credits. The choir, which won McDonald's Gospelfest at the Prudential Center in Newark for the last two years, recently sang at Enlow Recital Hall with Sons of Serendip, the 2009 America's Got Talent finalists.

Kean University alumna Toni-Ann Palmisano got the best kind of surprise at work on Tuesday, December 19. In front of all of the students and faculty at Secaucus Middle School, where she is a math teacher, Palmisano learned that she has been honored with the national Milken Educator Award.

In keeping with Kean University’s tradition of increasing awareness and appreciation for diverse cultures, the Office of Africana Studies hosted their annual Pre-Kwanzaa Festival on Tuesday, December 19.

Kean University’s Office of Student Government implemented a “paws-on” approach to relieving the stress of finals — therapy dogs. Students were given two opportunities to pet, cuddle and talk to therapy dogs in between exams, project deadlines and portfolio reviews.

Be the Change, a community service and activism group at Kean University, held its fifth annual toy drive, collecting more than 1,700 toys and books for children in local communities, many of whom are at risk for gang violence and substance abuse.

UNION, N.J. – Two events at Kean University’s Miron Student Center on Friday, December 8, challenged students to expand their worldview.

Sophomore Jianna Pisa, of Williamstown, switched places for the day with Kean College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Dean Jonathan Mercantini, Ph.D. Pisa won CLA’s inaugural Dean for a Day, a competition designed to increase collaboration between university faculty, administration and students.

Amy Morales was sleeping when Hurricane Maria ripped through her home in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico last September, breaking windows and sending clothes and debris flying through the house and into the storm outside.

“It felt like a cyclone,” said Morales, 20. “It was horrible.”