Maybe it’s “old school” where one thinks that integrity must prevail above all else when it comes to education. Well, four of the 11 members of the Kean University Board of Trustees must be “old school.” It was hardly unanimous. After deliberating for five hours, the trustees voted 7 to 4 to renew the contract of Kean University President Dawood Farahi (please see story on page 3), who was accused of trumping up his resume and curriculum vitae when he applied for the position in 2003. He said it was a “clerical mistake.” For someone being paid $300,000 a year and soon to get another big boost in salary, such a mistake is hard to ward off as clerical.
Nevertheless, seven trustees must have felt the
good he has been doing outweighs the “old school” issue of integrity. Or perhaps they felt that a clerical mistake is acceptable, even though the position for which he was hired would not be one where such a “faux pas” is acceptable. Is this “new school” and George Orwell’s newspeak?
The university has a lot of damage control re- quired as a result of the malaise. It’s more than it’s image. Education of the students is the most impor- tant issue ultimately — “new school” or not.
We hope it’s not the case: (Mark Antony: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”), Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
from http://www.goleader.com/12feb23/12feb23.pdf