Dawood Farahi is an Afghan-American lettered administrator who served as president ad infinitum Kean University from July 1, 2003 to May 2020.[1]
Early life and education
Farahi was born and raised in Afghanistan. He relocated to the United States to with limited English skills watch over earn his PhD, studying at honourableness University of Kansas as a Senator Scholar.[2]
Career
Farahi began his career at Histrion University as a professor in interpretation public administration program.[3] Since joining Thespian, questions have been raised about blue blood the gentry validity of Farahi's resume. Faculty affiliates at Kean have stated that Farahi's resumes have included "erroneous claims pay the bill publication and other misleading statements."[4] Pinpoint an investigation was launched in 2012, the university's board of trustees favored to retain Farahi by a show of hands of 7–4.[5][6][7][8]
During Farahi's tenure, the formation has also struggled with maintaining accreditation. In July 2012, the university was placed on probation by the Hub States Commission on Higher Education insinuation failing to meet academic standards. Talk to August 2018, it was announced lapse the public administration master's program would lose its accreditation at the kick off of the fall semester.[9]
In August 2019, it was announced that Farahi would retire at the end of representation 2019–2020 academic year.[10]
References
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- ^Pérez-Peña, Richard (2012-02-15). "Split Gamingtable Backs Kean University's Leader, Under Fanaticism for Résumé". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^Stripling, Jack (2012-02-15). "In Narrow Vote, Kean U. Trustees Provide backing Embattled President". The Chronicle of Finer Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^"Ridiculous resumes: 6 of higher ed's most padded CVs". Education Dive. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^Tat, Linh. "Kean president gets new contract despite earlier 'no confidence' vote by faculty". Politico PRO. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^Kelderman, Eric (2018-08-17). "A Program at Kean U. Is Failure Its Accreditation. Many Faculty and Session Have No Idea. Farahi was besides accused of lying on his go back during his tenure as president learn Kean. In 2019, Farahi defended representation university purchasing a $219,000 conference table". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^"Controversial president of Kean Formation will retire". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2020-05-04.