News Archive

Occupational therapy students from Kean have been making house calls to help make senior citizens safer in their homes and communities, teaching fall prevention, conducting home assessments, and getting the elderly patients out into their communities.

Things are a little different in AnnMarie Bacino’s American Sign Language (ASL) class. Bacino, who was born deaf, communicates in class via ASL and by writing on the whiteboard. Her classroom was largely silent one recent morning as eleven students worked in pairs, practicing ASL slang. Laughter broke out repeatedly, however, as Bacino, moving from her desk to a whiteboard, helped correct the class on expressions such as “love it!” and “trumps.”

New state-of-the-art equipment in Kean’s on-campus TV studio is giving communication students hands-on TV production experience. The University recently replaced the TV studio equipment with new high-definition equipment that is the standard in studios and newsrooms around the world.

Kean University adjunct professor Irisa Leverette helps her students learn algebra, encourages them to do homework, and reduces “math anxiety” by rapping in the classroom.

Kean University offers students many ways to get valuable international academic experience, through study abroad programs at our own English-speaking campus in China and dozens of other locations around the world. Watch and hear from our students directly about how these programs changed their lives.

Criminal justice professionals got a small sense of just how difficult it can be to rebuild your life after getting out of a prison during the recent Re-Thinking Re-Entry simulation event held at Kean.

The young students in Keirah Tompkins preschool class at the Kean Child Care and Development Center recently got a lesson in community policing, courtesy of a runaway hamster named Teddy.

Art and the public good come together for graduate student Cristina Fittipaldi at Kean University Galleries where she combines her two passions — art and improving the public welfare.

The Empty Place at the Table exhibition gave the Kean community the opportunity to read stories of victims of domestic violence, while showing the impact of not having loved ones at the table. 

Four occupational therapy students at Kean decided to postpone their final fieldwork on the path toward graduation so they could spend more than two weeks volunteering their healthcare skills in Costa Rica on a TraveLearn adventure.