The Black Male Initiative offers programs and supports, including a scholarship, at-risk student outreach, peer coaching, support group meetings, career counseling and more. ... MORE
Members of Voices Poetry Group, one of the college’s student clubs, attended the 2014 Student Academic Conference and met with keynote speaker Cristy Dwyer '08, '10, '13. ... MORE
Cristy Dwyer, a classically trained pianist, had left the business after playing the music of Frank Zappa and working with the Rolling Stones. At the suggestion of a friend, she took an unpaid internship helping counsel individuals who suffered from alcohol and drug addiction. ... MORE
Empire State College presents “Immigrants: Reinventing América,” a multimedia exhibit showcasing the work of current students and alumni sharing their views, contributions and experiences in the making of a new América. ... MORE
Domestic Violence has taken center stage in recent days, as the National Football League has struggled with disclosures of its players’ alleged domestic abuse, including that of Adrian Peterson, star running back for the Minnesota Vikings, and of Ray Rice, formerly of the Baltimore Ravens, and the video of his assault on his wife in a casino elevator. These events have sparked national discussion of the ongoing problem of domestic violence that affects 1.6 million women each year. ... MORE
Alison Dundy, a reference librarian at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, has co-translated a book, "The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman," by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, which has been published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Dundy and her co-translator, Nicholas Elliott, recently won the prestigious French-American Foundation translation award for their work on the English version of Kopenawa's words. ... MORE
The college recognized Deborah Gregory ’86, author of “The Cheetah Girls” book series, with the Distinguished Alumni Award at Empire State College's New York City Commencement. ... MORE
Smiles, greetings and good wishes for friends, colleagues and new acquaintances marked the event at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center, Albany. ... MORE
The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing's mission is to advance world health and celebrate nursing excellence in scholarship, leadership and service. STTI welcomed SUNY Empire State College as a new member of its Tau Kappa chapter at a formal chapter charter amendment ceremony, held earlier this month. ... MORE
The purpose of the SUNY CID-funded grant and conference was to explore, analyze and examine opportunities for adult women and minorities, an underserved, nontraditional student population, to pursue and succeed in STEM fields. ... MORE
Undergraduate students from 47 City University of New York and State University of New York colleges and universities showcased more than 100 research projects across a broad range of academic disciplines as part of the “Innovation Exploration Forum.” ... MORE
Catherine Collins, of Buffalo, an associate professor with the college, has been selected as the recipient of the Altes Prize for Exemplary Community Service, given by the college’s foundation. ... MORE
In this discussion, focusing on Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys, Hollis will present new ideas about how several of these goddesses developed and the roles they played in the early history of Egypt. ... MORE
Michael Merrill's review essay, "On Our Marx," is featured in the spring 2014 issue of Labor, the official journal of the Labor and Working-Class History Association. ... MORE
Jim Hall, founding president, will explore the quote from Ernest L. Boyer Sr., “Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.” ... MORE
As part of the college’s celebratory events for the inauguration of Merodie Hancock, the first webinar in the three-part series, “Three Voices That Shape Our Vision” takes place Thursday, March 6, from 10-11 a.m. EST. ... MORE
SUNY Empire State College made its strongest showing ever at the Academy of Human Resource Development’s annual conference, with five faculty mentors representing four centers across the college, at the 2014 Conference in the Americas, earlier this month in Houston, Texas. ... MORE
This presentation discusses the ways in which single women were portrayed in situation comedies of the 1960s and '70s, particularly in "That Girl," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Rhoda," and how these representations were both a reaction to and coincided with larger changes for women in U.S. society at that time. ... MORE
The Empire State College Center for Distance Learning and the Center for International Programs Global Strategies Task Force invite the community to participate in the first of the International Webcast Series. ... MORE
A two-time Newbery Award winner, Myers wrote more than 100 books aimed at children, middle-schoolers and young adults. Urban teenagers and young, economically disadvantaged African-Americans are frequent subjects. ... MORE
