NEW PALTZ — A panel discussion on political activism and journalism will take place March 29 in SUNY New Paltz’s Parker Theatre from 7:30 until 9:30 p.m. Award-winning journalist and author Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News will highlight a panel which includes journalist and professor Karl Grossman,…
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New Paltz Student Wins Selective Journalism Internship
NEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz journalism student Tracy Vanstaalduinen has been awarded a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund 12-week summer internship in Plattsburgh, N.Y. She will perform writing, editing and page design for the daily newspaper Plattsburgh Press-Republican, which has a circulation of 23,000 covering the northeastern Clinton, Essex and…
Read moreDoctorate in Educational Administration & Policy Studies Set to Begin
NEW PALTZ — The University at Albany/SUNY Doctorate in Educational Administration & Policy Studies, being offered in collaboration with the State University of New York at New Paltz, is scheduled to begin in New Paltz this summer. Students must apply to the University at Albany by April 15, 2000 to be…
Read moreCherokee Indian Literature Talk to be Held at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — Ronald Welburn, associate professor of English and director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will speak at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, March 15. A Cherokee-Assateague Indian, Welburn will discuss Cherokee literature at a forum in the Jacobson Faculty Tower (JFT)…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz Hosts International Discussion of New Austrian Government
NEW PALTZ — On Wednesday, March 15, SUNY New Paltz will host an international panel of government officials and scholars to discuss the controversial new Austrian center-right coalition government, as well as reactions of other governments in Europe, Israel and the United States. The forum, “Austria 2000: Return to Fascism?”…
Read moreFleet Services Corporation Recognizes Public University’s Funding Needs
NEW PALTZ — Fleet Services Corporation has donated $20,000 to the SUNY New Paltz Foundation to establish the Fleet Bank Endowed Scholarship Fund at the university. Beginning in fall 2000, a scholarship in the amount of the annual interest earned will be awarded by the New Paltz Admissions Office to…
Read moreCollaboration Increases Scholarship Funding at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — College Auxiliary Services (CAS) and the SUNY New Paltz Foundation are committed to providing SUNY New Paltz students with increased scholarship support. The Jim Fredericks Student Employee Scholarship previously granted to student employees by CAS will now be awarded by the Foundation, according to Bill Long, executive…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz Hosts Scholars From Uzbekistan
NEW PALTZ — An educational grant awarded to SUNY New Paltz by the United States Information Agency’s (USIA) College and University Partnership Program is enabling New Paltz to host four faculty members from one of the most respected universities in Central Asia, Tashkent State Economic University (TSEU) in Uzbekistan. According…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz Teacher Candidates Excel in State Exams
NEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz education students scored higher on average in the 1999 New York Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTE) than students from other SUNY colleges and from colleges statewide. Robert J. Michael, dean of the School of Education, said that passage of the exams is required and preliminary…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz Scholarship Honors Baggerman Family
NEW PALTZ — The Baggerman Family Scholarship Fund, memorializing the lives of William and Susanna Baggerman, parents of William Jr. and Susan M. Baggerman, has been established at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The scholarship will be awarded for the first time this fall. The deadline…
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