By Patricia Alex, Staff Writer, The Record
An in-house review — for which Kean University had hired a consultant with a criminal background — has absolved the school’s administration of racial bias charges, but failed to convince critics, who renewed calls for an outside inquiry.
“Taxpayers across the state should be infuriated that Kean’s board of trustees paid $15,000 for a flimsy report written by someone who was clearly paid to see no evil and speak no evil,” said the Rev. Ronald Slaughter, the leader of a ministers coalition that has alleged that African-American students and staff are not treated fairly at the Union campus.
[…]“The report is an internal report and does not have the legitimacy that an independent, external report would have,” said James Castiglione, president of the union representing the faculty.
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