was renamed Kean College of New Jersey for the Kean family, whose members include Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean, U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator John Kean of New Jersey, former New Jersey Governor and 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean, U.S. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean, Julia Kean, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State and New York Governor Hamilton Fish, First Lady of the United States Anna Symmes Harrison, New Jersey State Senator and United States Senate nominee Thomas Kean Jr., and John Kean of South Carolina, a delegate to the Continental Congress.
Elsa Gomez became the first female president of Kean College in 1989 and served until 1994. By the 1990s the student body of Kean College was among the most diverse in New Jersey.
=== Kean University ===
Becoming Kean University of New Jersey on September 26, 1997, Kean soon added the Nathan Weiss Graduate College. In 2003, Dawood Farahi was elected president of Kean University by the unanimous vote of the board of trustees.
Kean University has grown to …
