By Adam Clark, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Former Drew University President Robert Weisbuch made $1.1 million in salary and other compensation during 2012, making him the highest paid private college president in New Jersey that year, according to a study by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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| May 23, 2005 Board of Trustees |
| Emily Filardo and Vivian Rodriquez |
| Orlando Edreira |
| June, 2005 Board of Trustees |
| Dean Ana Maria Schuhmann |
| Orlando Edreira, Dean Kenneth Dollarhide, Chair Robert Cockren |
| May 19, 2008 Board of Trustees |
| Gema Castaneda |
| Robert Astuni |
| James McCarren |
| Bernard Weinstein |
| Gail Fraser |
| Irwin Nesoff |
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By Patricia Alex, Staff Writer, The Record.
Kean University faculty members criticized the school’s board of trustees at a meeting Saturday for spending $219,000 to purchase a conference table, but the trustees had no response.
It was the board’s first public meeting since news reports about the cost of the 22-foot circular multimedia conference table that was purchased without competitive bidding and installed in a new $40 million academic building on the main campus.…
Read moreCynthia Wade of the Newark Teachers Union and Carl Lindskoog of the Raritan Valley Community College Faculty Federation are interviewed about Black Friday action to support striking Walmart workers in North Bergen, NJ. …
Read moreBy Nicole Gaudiano, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are investigating whether academic freedom is being threatened at universities that are building campuses in China and partnering with the Chinese on “Confucius institutes” in the U.S., including Rutgers University.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., chairman of a House subcommittee focusing on human rights, said at a hearing before the panel Thursday that he will seek a Governmental Accountability Office study of agreements between U.S.…
Read moreBy John Mooney
Overall graduation rates are up slightly, as are those for African-American and Hispanic students
New Jersey’s graduation rate keeps inching up — at least for the time being.
The Christie administration yesterday released its annual report on the latest high school graduating class and said that 88.6 percent of the Class of 2014 graduated within four years, up a percentage point from the Class of 2013 and two points from 2012.…
Read moreBy Naomi Nix, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Five months away from the Newark Public Schools Advisory board election, Marques-Aquil Lewis says he plans to seek a third term on the board.
If elected, Lewis, 27, said he would continue to be a vocal critic of Superintendent Cami Anderson’s controversial reorganization plan, One Newark.
“I was considering walking away,” Lewis said.…
Read moreBy Naomi Nix | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEWARK — Newark mayor Ras Baraka released a letter today that he sent to Acting Education Commissioner David Hespe asking for state intervention into what he called “intolerable conditions” at the Barringer academies.
In a letter dated Nov. 19, 2014, Baraka said students were suffering from a host of issues including lacking textbooks, overcrowded classes and classes on core subjects taught by uncertified teachers.…
Read moreBy Tamar Lewin
The vast majority of students at American public colleges do not graduate on time, according to a new report from Complete College America, a nonprofit group based in Indianapolis.
“Students and parents know that time is money,” said the report, called “Four-Year Myth.” “The reality is that our system of higher education costs too much, takes too long and graduates too few.”…
Read moreBy Jim Norman, Staff Writer, The Record.
The $219,000 conference table that has brought Kean University into an unwanted spotlight focusing on purported academic excess is way more than a fancy table, the school’s executive vice president of operations said Monday in a letter to Kean students and faculty members.
The 22-foot circular table is not just a chunk of fancy woodwork, but is filled with high-tech electronics that make it “a conferencing system with the ability to connect people at up to 25 locations around the world for remote conference calls and to record meetings,” said Philip Connelly.…
Read moreBy John Mooney
Amid debate during first year of implementation, key juncture will be reached soon when teachers get their individual ratings
There’s been plenty of debate about the effectiveness of New Jersey’s new teacher-evaluation system during its first year. But the bottom-line verdict is likely to come in a few months, when final performance ratings are placed next to individual teachers’ names.…
Read moreBy Katie Lannan, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
For $219,000, Kean University administrators got not only a custom multi-media conference table, but also a good deal of controversy.
The purchase of the table has puzzled students, drawn criticism from lawmakers, garnered national attention and even spawned a parody Twitter account that satirically brags about the table’s famous “relatives,” like the desk in the Oval Office.…
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