Faculty and staff alike must appreciate—and demonstrate through our actions and attitudes—that meeting student needs is vital to the institution’s success. We must understand the services that students require to achieve their goals and our administrative processes and policies must help us provide those services….
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Central Elements of Our Vision for New Paltz
We will be a willing partner—and supplier of talent in the form of graduates and faculty expertise—to local business and industry, school districts, and social service agencies. With the exception of our MFA programs that have national reputations, meeting such regional needs will be the principal focus of our graduate programs…
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Our fine and performing arts events, athletic contests and public lectures should be magnets that draw friends and fans to the college. We will proudly proclaim our cultural and economic impact, and aim to be celebrated as a regional resource and gem….
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Most of our undergraduate students will live on campus and many faculty/staff will live in close proximity to campus. We want to offer a rich and lively co-curriculum that (a) reinforces what students learn in the classroom; (b) responds to students’ interests and (c) takes full advantage of New Paltz’s extraordinary…
Read more4th Annual College Clean Up Day
4th Annual College Clean-Up Day!! Wednesday, March 30, 2010 (Rain date: Thursday, March 31, 2011) 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Meet in SUB 62/63 to get your team assignment The College Clean Up Committee would like to invite ALL SUNY New Paltz community members (Faculty/Staff/Students and friends) to join us for the fourth annual spring cleaning…
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Our faculty’s excitement about their own research and creative activity should inspire students, both in the classroom and in focused capstone experiences for undergraduates (e.g., joint faculty-student research; faculty-mentored student research; internships; teaching practica; student shows and recitals). Connections between undergraduate student learning and faculty scholarship will be an important part…
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New Paltz students will be taught by faculty who take teaching and learning seriously, beginning with a general education curriculum (the proper focus of one’s first years at the college) designed by our faculty to impart content and build competencies grounded in the liberal arts. There will be regular dialogue among…
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New Paltz faculty will be gifted at (and care about) their teaching. But they will also be meaningfully and consistently engaged in scholarship and creative activity that is shared with (and evaluated by) scholars and critics in the broader intellectual community. The pace and volume of such scholarly/creative activity will be…
Read moreRay Suarez to appear at the State University of New York at New Paltz Distinguished Speaker Series
NEW PALTZ– The State University of New York at New Paltz welcomes Ray Suarez, author, senior correspondent for PBS News Hour, and host of Destination Casa Blanca, as a speaker in the College’s Distinguished Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 7, in the SUNY New Paltz Athletic and Wellness Center….
Read moreRecycleMania spreads across campus
The spirit of recycling returns to the SUNY New Paltz campus as the 2011 RecycleMania Tournament begins. The New Paltz campus will be participating in the friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities on their campus communities. The program, which runs from Feb….
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