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Suhit Gupta '00, Steve Jones '89, Curtis Minnis '77 and Monika Mohacsi '15 have been elected new members of the ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Board of Trustees.
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To members of the ºüÀêÊÓÆµ community, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ, our leadership and I will never condone violence. Our University will always support and endorse Americans’ constitutional rights to free speech and to peacefully assemble. The United States’ democratic republic is founded on the need for all voices to be heard and our civil liberties protected. I…
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Dear ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Family, Our amazing, hand-drawn holiday greeting this year conveys a lot of what I, and surely many of you, have felt in 2020—a little shaken up, sometimes upside down, and missing familiar connections with our campus and each other. What I love about the holiday season is how it has a way of…
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President Christine Riordan, PhD, has been named to City & State New York's Long Island Power 100 list—at number 66.
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Thankful for Our ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Family
CategoriesPublished:Dear ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Family, As we begin Thanksgiving week, and the last week of on-campus classes for the semester, I want to take this opportunity to express just how thankful I am to each of you for coming together to meet the challenges of 2020. It has been no small feat, but each of you has…
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Voting for the annual Bethpage Best of Long Island contest has begun and, as in recent years, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ is well represented among the nominations, including these “best” categories: College/University College President College Sports Program Concert Venue Theater Arts Center Mascot Public Garden College Sports Coach—with five Panther head coaches making the cut ºüÀêÊÓÆµ is…
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Dear ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Community, We are still reckoning with the impact of a global pandemic, one that has demonstrated the way we come together as a university community. And it is time, again, for us to rally together. Since June, we have had many conversations, open and individual, to hear the concerns and pain of our…
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When Provost and Executive Vice President Steve Everett, DMA, talks about the wealth of talent among ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's faculty, one name that emerges immediately is Pulitzer Prize-winning classical composer and University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA.
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President Christine Riordan is featured on an episode of the podcast about how she and 100 other university presidents worked together to prepare for Fall 2020.
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Dear ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Community, We are delighted to see that the firm advocacy and determination of ºüÀêÊÓÆµ and all our peers in higher education—coupled with support from representatives across the nation—have resulted in the reversal of the July 6 announcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to prohibit international students from remaining on campus…
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Dear ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Community, On Monday, July 6, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released guidelines prohibiting international students from remaining on campus if all of their classes are online. This was an unexpected and senseless policy that runs counter to what we stand for as a university. We write to express our unqualified support for our…
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Sylvia Frances Moss '64, Tomislav Kostadinov '10, Emily Ladau '13, Dottie Herman and Hilda Perez '11 have been elected as new members of the ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Board of Trustees.
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Christine Riordan, PhD, president of ºüÀêÊÓÆµ, is quoted in a Long Island Business News story about the impact of COVID-19 and safely reopening colleges and universities.
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ºüÀêÊÓÆµ remembers Jean Lau Chin, EdD, an accomplished and beloved member of our community.
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It is our priority to create a supportive, equitable, diverse, and fair home for every ºüÀêÊÓÆµ student, faculty, and staff member.
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In an op-ed on CNN.com, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Board of Trustees Chair Emeritus Steven L. Isenberg, DHL '00 (Hon.), argues that our democracy is under significant threat by hackers and others. He co-wrote the piece with Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., former president of The Rockefeller Foundation.
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ºüÀêÊÓÆµ President Christine M. Riordan shares her insights on reopening colleges and universities for Fall 2020 amid COVID-19 in a Nonprofit Quarterly story.
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Over the past few days, the tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, on the heels of other painful tragedies, has reminded us of the racism and prejudice that continues to exist in our society.
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Over the past several weeks, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's leadership, faculty and staff have been actively preparing for our Fall 2020 semester. We are anxious to welcome you back but are mindful that we must do so in a safe and healthy way.
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Congratulations, Class of 2020
CategoriesPublished:I am so proud to honor the resilient Class of 2020! With your entire ºüÀêÊÓÆµ family, I am thrilled to celebrate you today—what would have been your Commencement Day.
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President Christine M. Riordan will co-chair the Restart Plan for Higher Education, a task force that aims to formulate broad guidelines for restarting higher education in New York state as announced per the Cornell Chronicle.
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As we look ahead, I'd like to give an update on our plans for the fall semester and share the important factors that will guide our University's decisions moving forward.
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Every year, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ honors four exceptional employees with a President's Award for Excellence. One of the President's Awards for Excellence for 2020 was given to Bernadette Fitzpatrick, Administrative Assistant for the College of Nursing and Public Health.
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Every year, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ honors four exceptional employees with a President's Award for Excellence. One of the President's Awards for Excellence for 2020 was given to Samantha Bassford, Residence Hall Director of Waldo Hall.
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Every year, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ honors four exceptional employees with a President's Award for Excellence. A presence on the ºüÀêÊÓÆµ campus for four decades, Dr. Amador is the first recipient of the Presidential Award for Diversity and Inclusion for her commitment to advancing our goals for diversity, inclusion and multiculturalism.
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Every year, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ honors four exceptional employees with a President's Award for Excellence. Last year, Patricia (Patti) Veigl marked her 10th anniversary with the Alice Brown Early Learning Center (ELC)—not just as an administrative assistant but as the center's face.
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Every year, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ honors four exceptional employees with a President's Award for Excellence. In her five years at ºüÀêÊÓÆµ, Stephanie Espina, director of undergraduate admissions, has racked up an impressive list of accomplishments.