New students disembark at New Paltz
In a packed line leading to a service door of Shango Hall, parents, siblings and students waited last Thursday to bring loads of gear into the SUNY New Paltz dorm. Nearby a cluster of sorority girls from Sigma Delta Tau, giggling and talking amongst themselves, stood under the shade of a tree in a tight...
College welcomes 1,850 new first-year and transfer students
SUNY New Paltz will welcome 1,155 new first-year students to the College during the annual Moving-in Day beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 23. The new students will be joined for the start of classes on Monday, Aug. 27, by 695 transfer students, for a total of 1,850 new students. According to L. David...
Renovation to be ongoing at SUNY New Paltz as students return on Aug. 23.
College students and visitors to SUNY New Paltz will see at least some construction work going on when they return to campus at the end of the month. Also, the Mohonk Walk — a cross-campus pathway — will be open to pedestrians for the first time even while landscaping continues, college officials said. The most...
More than 1,500 graduate at SUNY New Paltz commencement
Families, friends and educators flooded the Old Main Quadrangle this past Sunday morning to celebrate the 2012 SUNY New Paltz commencement, which included 1,291 undergraduates and 231 graduate candidates. As the graduates marched into the Old Main seating area outdoors, people crowded against the exterior fencing to try to wave to their graduate, take a...
SUNY New Paltz to celebrate commencement on May 20
SUNY New Paltz will hold its May undergraduate gommencement ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. this Sunday, May 20, on the Old Main Quadrangle. The graduate ceremony will be held on Friday, May 18 at 6 p.m. in the same location. This year, there are more than 1,900 undergraduate and 605 graduate degrees being conferred. There...
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...
New Paltz aims to be “zero waste” leader
New Paltz will have a lot to prove on its road toward becoming a “zero waste” community, but doing so successfully will make the college town a leader both locally and nationally, said Judith A. Enck, the Region 2 administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. Enck’s comments came as she addressed a crowd during SUNY...
Student Vendor Festival at Water Street Market
The SUNY New Paltz chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), an international organization, is on the move, with several community-based projects in the offing. The group is currently preparing for its Student Vendor Festival slated for this Sunday, April 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Water Street Market in downtown New...
Educators and residents join occupy New Paltz rally
More than 50 people participated in a march and rally last Saturday, organized by Occupy New Paltz. The group marched symbolically — armed with signs, drums, tambourines and penny whistles — demanding that state and federal funding for schools receive higher priority in government budgets. The group marched down Huguenot Street, through the SUNY New...
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...