Whats New at SUNY

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Operation Inform08
Whats New at SUNY?
The State University of New York
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• Todays Program
• This workshop will look at the expansion taking
  place in SUNY in academic programs, student
  life and construction.
• We will look at SUNY Schools In the News for
  new initiatives and special commendations.
• We will discuss SUNYs surge in the rankings in
  US News and World Report and
  beyond.

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• SUNYs Growing
• Community Colleges
• New regional Higher Education Center at
  Adirondack
• Sixty two million dollar building project at
  Finger Lakes
• New Allied Health building at Monroe
• Social Work program at Nassau
• Invasive Cardiovascular Technology at Hudson
  Valley
• Womens Lacrosse at Onondaga
• Womens Crew at Schenectady

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• Technology Colleges
• 150 bed Townhouse Complex at Alfred State
• Experimental Farm at Cobleskill
• Baseball Stadium at Farmingdale
• Cell phones given to all students at Morrisville
• Criminal Justice Program at SUNYIT
• Bioscience (Forensic DNA Technology) at
  Farmingdale
• Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State

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• Colleges
• Fifty six million dollar Campus Center at Oswego
• New 126 person Townhouse complex at Potsdam
• New Turf Field at Purchase
• Finance and Marketing at Brockport
• Communication Disorders at Fredonia
• Television Arts at Buffalo State

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• University Centers
• Sixty million dollar donation for new Simmons
  Geometry and Physics Center at Stony Brook
• Over three billion dollars in funding for
  Nanotechnology Department at Albany
• Cornell ILR internship program in Hong Kong
  featuring collaboration between Business and Law
• Renewable Energies program at ESF
• Biomedical Engineering at Buffalo

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• In the News
• Community Colleges
• Dutchess President named to Business Hall of Fame
• Tompkins Cortland named Best of NY for Mobile
  TC3 by Center for Digital Government
• Cayuga opened the First Niagara Entrepreneurship
  Center funded by First Niagara Bank
• Onondaga National Champions in Tennis
• Herkimer National Champions in Track and Field

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• Technology Colleges
• Canton takes 5th in nation at ASCE Steel Bridge
  Team competition
• Several Student Athletes Selected as All
  Americans at Alfred
• Cobleskill reaches Elite 8 in NJCAA Mens
  Basketball
• SUNYIT President announces eighty five million
  dollars in Campus enhancements

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• Colleges
• Fredonia receives US State Department Grant to
  teach Video Production and Film in Turkey
• New Paltz sends 14 students to Democratic
  National Convention
• Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown hosting
  exhibit from SUNY Purchase faculty
• Plattsburgh National Championship in Womens Ice
  Hockey
• Cortland 2nd in nation in Mens Lacrosse

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• University Centers
• Fifty Thousand donated by Minnesota Twins
  reliever Joe Nathan for new baseball field at
  Stony Brook
• Your Business Your UB at Buffalo (collaboration
  in training, marketing and research with local
  businesses)
• Carbon Neutral Bio-fuels project at ESF
• Think Binghamton new gathering point for
  Binghamton supporters
• Four new interdisciplinary majors at Stony Brook
  Southampton in Ecosystems and Human Impact,
  Environmental Design, Policy and Planning,
  Sustainability Studies and Business Management

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• SUNY Ranked
• 25 SUNY Colleges Ranked
• In US News and World Report
• For 2008!

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• Special Recognition
• ESF 15th for Great School at a Great Price
• Cornell Top Vet Med School in Nation
• Geneseo, New Paltz, Oneonta and Fredonia - top
  15 of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
• Old Westbury 2nd for Ethnic Diversity 18th
  for least debt
• Binghamton and Cortland 100 Best Values
  (Kiplingers)
• Binghamton Nations Most Green Campuses
  (Princeton Review)
• Stony Brook New York News profiles twenty nine
  MDs for Best Doctors of New York article

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• Questions
• and
• Discussion