A look at the University Archives provides evidence of over 170 years of institutional history in Newark, Union, and the world. As an anchor institution and New Jersey’s first Urban Research Institution, Kean University creates and uses resources that improve our community's long-term health and social welfare. Students, alumni, faculty, and staff participate, facilitate, network, and collaborate to sustain a strong Cougar family. As people graduate or retire, accomplishments and achievements can be lost or forgotten. At SCRLA, we want an easily accessible space to help us remember.
This page grew from a pilot project to answer frequently asked questions and look for Kean firsts, milestones, guest speakers, theatrical and musical performances, clubs, sports, and more. Select results are posted here. Because SCRLA receives specific questions related to race, ethnicity, and other relevant terms, those keywords are included to aid in searching. The other pages in the University Archives, like student newspapers, may provide even more context to the material on these pages.
For a link to view the Kean Index spreadsheet or to share information that should be added, email Erin Alghandoor at .
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"Beyond Dreams Towards Glory - Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences on the Road to Progress - July 2002" - Shaoxing University Advertisement Video (1997)
Advertisment Department of the Party Committee of Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences
On September 19, 2002, the Provost Office for Academic Affairs for Kean University met lay out a plan for the creation of a sister university in Zhejiang Province of The People's Republic of China. Part of this project was to discover potential locations, colleges and universities will to enter into a sister-university relationship with Kean University to expand the educational cooperative projects Kean had at the time. One location they looked at was the Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences. During this time they acquired a letter with advertisement material for the college, including a CD-ROM, and a floppy disc.
The letter included a short overview of the University:
"Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences is a general full-time university approved by the Ministry of Education of China. The university offers 37 majors across eight disciplines, including liberal arts, science, engineering, medicine, law, education, management, and economics. It comprises eight secondary colleges and 20 departments. It currently has 8,700 full-time students and over 700 full-time faculty, including over 300 with the rank of associate professor or above. The Campus covers 170 hectares, with 300,000 square meters of building space. Currently, the university is actively implementing a new round of construction and over the next several years, aims to transform itself into a comprehensive provincial-level key university with a student population of 10,000."
This file was recovered from the CD-ROM and converted to an mp4 video file. The letter was received in 2002, and was dated as being from July of 2002, but metadata from the recovered video suggests it might have been originally created in January of 1997.
There is no transcript at this time.
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Bayard Rustin as art collector : a study of selections of African, Asian and European art in the collection of a prominent African American
Thomas M. Shaw
The following catalog features paintings and sculptures from the collection of Bayard Rustin, selected by Professor Thomas M. Shaw and displayed at Kean College of New Jersey. Bayard Rustin (1910-1987) was known for his public image as one of the founding Civil Rights leaders of the 1960s. He was also an art collector and musician.
This catalog is not in the University Archives collection. It was digitized with permission by Walter Naegle.
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The Program of Student Personnel Services at the New Jersey State Normal School at Newark
M. Ernest Townsend, Bertha R. Kain, Joseph A. D'Angola, Bruce B. Robinson M.D., Grace M. Kahrs M.D., Lois A. Meredith, Vera H. Brooks, Martha Downs, Wildy V. Singer, May Ewald, and Harriet E. Wetzel
The authors were members of the Personnel Cabinet of the New Jersey State Normal School at Newark. This book uses the term personnel in the broadest possible terms to nurture students who will excel as students and in the teaching profession. It details the administrative pattern of services, the functional set-up, accomplishments to date, and the tasks ahead.
The program was deemed a success, and there are many letters from other institutions requesting that a copy be mailed to their campus. It was republished in 1939.