By Conor Skelding
Ursino, the fancy farm-to-table restaurant on the Kean University campus that opened amid great fanfare about four years ago, “is closed temporarily for remodeling,” university spokeswoman Margaret McCorry said Tuesday.
The restaurant, a pet project of university president Dawood Farahi, offered entrees between $25 and $33, with many ingredients sourced from a four-acre farm on the premises of Liberty Hall Museum, which is adjacant to the university’s main campus Union Township.
[…]James Castiglione, associate professor of physics and president of the Kean Federation of Teachers, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday, “It’s hard to understand why the university opened a high-end restaurant in a science building in the first place. And it wasn’t surprising that it was a money-loser for the university. The university should refocus its resources into the classroom and on academic and student services to provide a quality education for our students and the services necessary to help them graduate on-time.”
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