Kean University Teachers call for Audit — Politics Patrol

"Often, I have asked here and in the column how Kean University can hire former Gov. (and priest wannabe) Jim McGreevey to teach ethics and keep its accreditation.  Apparently a lot of the teachers there have serious questions as well. A poll of Kean University educators showed 92 percent of  those polled had no confidence in the university’s leadership. They cited President Dawood Farahi’s policies and fiscal management.  Today at 1 p.m., the Kean Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers’ president, Randi Weingarten, will hold a news conference to call for an external forensic audit of the school’s finances before a controversial reorganization proposal that would cut programs and classes goes before the Trustees.  “This situation demands an outside investigation into how taxpayer money is being abused by an administration that has grown 31 percent and exploded university debt from $48 to $350 million in only six years,” said Kean teachers union president James Castiglione. According to published reports, Farahi, a naturalized citizen who immigrated to the US as a college student, is paid more than $293,000 a year and his biggest supporter is Sen. Ray Lesniak to whom he has made political contributions."  (Click to read Full Article)