SUNY New Paltz inaugurates Donald Christian as president
SUNY New Paltz should evolve to meet the challenges of a post-Great Recession America, and it can do so stressing educational quality, selective admissions and cross-disciplinary thinking, newly inaugurated collage President Donald P. Christian told his audience last weekend. “I tip my hat to the seven past presidents of the modern college at New Paltz,”...
Dr. Donald P. Christian will be sworn in as SUNY New Paltz president next Friday
Former provost and vice president for Academic Affairs Dr. Donald P. Christian has served as interim president of SUNY New Paltz since Steven G. Poskanzer stepped down from the post of president in June 2010. But apparently the trustees of the college saw him as no mere placeholder, since the requisite national search for a...
Students for Sustainable Agriculture prepare for the growing season
SUNY New Paltz students who were not satisfied with what they were eating at school decided to do something about it and organized the Students for Sustainable Agriculture club. The group formed around the idea of bringing local, sustainable food and community to the college. “It mostly got started around issues with campus food, but...
Sunny disposition: SUNY engineering students will be learning by doing
Like Superman, Resnick Engineering Hall at SUNY New Paltz now receives power from the sun. College leaders met last week to unveil Resnick’s new rooftop solar-panel array, a setup projected to save SUNY New Paltz $1000 per year for utilities on that building. For Daniel Freedman, interim engineering dean, the project is reminiscent of his...
New Paltz espouses power and hope in Multicultural Education Conference
SUNY New Paltz’s Humanistic/Multicultural Education Program in the School of Education will hold its 17th annual Multicultural Education Conference titled “Courage in the Face of Contradiction: The Power & Hope of Multicultural Education” on Friday, Nov. 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Student Union Building on the New Paltz campus. The deadline...
SUNY New Paltz makes up $5M of $6.3M shortfall
SUNY New Paltz will continue to have to focus its efforts and tighten its belt in the 2011-2012 school year, but hopefully the darkest days of the Great Recession are now behind them, college President Donald Christian said last week. A struggling economy forced the local branch of the State University of New York to...
SUNY New Paltz commemorates 9/11
Silent calm came over the crowd at SUNY New Paltz on the afternoon of Sept. 9, as a group of more than 100 people planted nearly 3,000 little American flags into the lawn of the Old Main Quad at SUNY New Paltz. Two campus police officers dressed in gray stood still amidst the sea of red,...
The new Old Main
There’s a wonderfully useful quote by some famous person or other — originally about the Nazi Holocaust, but with many less grim applications — that goes something like, “Heaven defend us from the things that one can get used to.” A recent case in point is the construction barrier that has been blocking the view...