Kean president’s resume controversy under review by university officials

By Nic Corbett and Ryan Hutchins/The Star-Ledger

UNION — Kean University officials deliberated the fate of besieged president Dawood Farahi for about three hours in closed session tonight but reached no conclusion about allegations he lied on his résumé.

Returning to open session shortly after 10 p.m., the university governing board’s executive committee said it will discuss the matter again early next week.

The panel acknowledged the intense emotion — on both sides — surrounding Farahi’s situation but offered no further explanation to a roomful of people in Kean Hall’s conference room.

The board went into closed session when the meeting began at 5:30 p.m., then came out and took comments from the half dozen people who wanted to speak before going back into executive session. Most of the 100 people who attended the session stayed until the end.

James Castiglione, the head of the faculty union Kean Federation of Teachers, brought the résumé issue to the board of trustees in November. The executive committee later retained the law firm McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter to investigate and considered its findings last night.

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