Teachers upset over direction of school, soaring debt; point finger at university president
By Cheryl Hehl, Staff Writer
UNION — There has been a lot of change at Kean University since Dawood Farahi took over as president in 2003, including soaring debt that went from $48 million to $350 million in just six years and faculty that gave their leader an 83 percent no confidence vote in fall of 2010.
Farahi has mismanaged the college, increased its debt by more than $300 million and compromised the education of its students, according to claims by faculty members.
There are other charges by staff that are startling, including that student fees have surged more than 62 percent since Farahi came aboard and that the university budget has escalated from $140 million to $210 million.
According to faculty members, the money is not going into the classroom, because full-time faculty staff numbers have dropped from 400 to 310, while university administrators jumped 31 percent from 124 to 165.
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