Board of trustees hands over report to Middle States Commission
By Cheryl Hehl, Staff Writer
With its monitoring report now in the hands of the agency that will determine whether Kean University is worthy of keeping the accreditation it held since 1960, university officials await a critical visit next week that could play heavily into the decision making process.
The Kean Board of Trustees met last week to share their final report that was sent to the Middle State Commission.
Commission on Higher Education, Kean officials have stressed they were working diligently to address the multiple standard violations that put the school’s accreditation in jeopardy.
Kean was put on probation by the commission because there was evidence the university was not in compliance with four of the 14 standards required to maintain accreditation. Those standards included 6, relating to integrity, 7, institutional assessment, 12 general education and 14, assessment of student learning.
Adding to the university’s problems, prior to the monitoring report being due to the accrediting agency, the commission sent a letter to Kean University president Dawood Farahi questioning issues involving standards 4, 10, 13 and 5. These standards specifically have to do with board of trustee policies involving the hiring of the university president, policies regarding faculty and staff and evidence the university is in compliance with the commissions policy on “Political Intervention in Education.”
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