Students protest governing board’s decision to keep school president despite resume controversy

Dozens of Kean University students walked out of their classes this afternoon to protest the governing board’s decision to support the president despite finding mistakes on his resumes, NJ.com reports. The 1:30 p.m. walk-out was organized by the Occupy Kean group, which students began last semester as an off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street. But the organization has “transformed into a movement to get the students here aware of what’s happening with our school’s administration,” said Katherine Arzig, 22, a junior psychology major, who described herself as the “reluctant leader” of the group. She said they are “absolutely appalled” of the trustees’ announcement Wednesday night expressing confidence in president Dawood Farahi’s leadership, in spite of discovering instances–most decades old, they said–where Farahi showed “carelessness” with his resumes…

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Christie names Rochelle Hendricks N.J.’s first secretary of higher education

For decades, New Jersey had a powerful chancellor of higher education who oversaw a large and formidable department that kept a tight rein on the state’s colleges and universities, reports NJ.com. But in 1994, then-Gov. Christie Whitman vowed to give New Jersey’s colleges and universities more autonomy and abolished the chancellor job and the entire department…

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Christie proposes education reform bills that would eliminate current tenure system for teachers

Gov. Chris Christie sent a package of education reform bills to the Legislature Wednesday that would eliminate tenure as teachers know it and offer job protection only to those who consistently show a high level of performance based on new statewide evaluation system, reports NJ.com. Under the tenure proposal, teachers would be given one of four ratings–highly effective, effective, partially effective or ineffective–based equally on student performance and classroom observations. Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf first unveiled the evaluation system during an address at Princeton University in February…

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