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Kean University

Union, Italy

Kean University

Kean University () is a public university in Union, Elizabeth, Hillside, Jefferson, and Jersey City, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education and is a state-designated research university. The university was founded in 1855 in Newark, New Jersey, as the Newark Normal

School, then became New Jersey State Teachers College in 1937. In 1958, the college was relocated from Newark to Union Township, site of the Kean family's ancestral home at Liberty Hall. After its move to the historic Livingston-Kean Estate, which includes the entire Liberty Hall acreage, the historic James Townley House, and Kean Hall, which historically housed the library of United States Senator Hamilton Fish Kean and served as a political meeting place, the school became Newark State College, a comprehensive institution providing a full range of academic programs and majors. Renamed Kean College of New Jersey in 1973, the institution earned university status on September 26, 1997, becoming Kean University of New Jersey. Kean University is the fourth-largest institution of higher education in New Jersey and currently comprises five colleges and the Nathan Weiss Graduate College. Kean University...

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