The Office of Institutional Advancement:
(845) 341-4725
Morrison Hall
Orange County Community College
115 South Street Middletown, NY 10940
publicity@sunyorange.edu
Contact:
Vinnie Cazzetta, VP, Institutional Advancement
Phone: (845) 341-4725 • Fax: (845) 341-4730SUNY Orange to hold Inauguration for President William Richards on March 19, 2004
Career Services Workshops at SUNY Orange
SUNY Orange offers “Just For You” Admissions Information Night
SUNY Orange offers Travel/Learn Trip to Poland
Financial Aid Workshop available to students and the public at SUNY Orange
MIDDLETOWN
– The Orange County Community College Presidential Inauguration Ceremony
to formally welcome new SUNY Orange president, Dr. William Richards, will
be held on Friday, March 19 at 6 p.m. in Orange Hall Theater on the Middletown
campus at 115 South Street.
Colleges and universities typically hold presidential inaugurations to officially recognize and welcome new presidents within the first year of taking office. Dr. Richards, who assumed the office of the president at SUNY Orange on Aug. 1, 2003, will be the keynote speaker.
Herbert Gareiss, Jr., chairman of the SUNY Orange board of trustees, will welcome the college community, legislators, community and business leaders, educators and other friends of the college. Other participants in the ceremony will include: Orange County Executive Edward Diana, Chancellor of the State University of New York Robert King, and President of the College Governance Dr. James Lynch. Following the ceremony there will be a reception for Dr. Richards and his family in the Orange Hall Gallery.
Prior to taking the president’s position, Dr. Richards was the C.E.O. of the Westminster Campus of the Front Range Community College in Aurora, Colo. He holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the University of Denver, an M.A. In English/Writing from St. Louis University, and a B.A. in English from Regis College.
He is a member of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), and has won the Quality Incentive Award from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, the Center of Excellence Award from the University of North Carolina, The Excellence in Community College Administration Award from the AACC and was a director of the Community College Leadership Institute.
Dr. Richards is the author of Technology in the Classroom, (AACC and League for Innovation in the Community College conferences, 2001), The Physics of Fine Arts (Professional Development Presentation, Colorado, 2000), and Advancing Technology Through Public/Private Partnerships. Prior to his position at the Front Range Community College in Aurora, he was President at the Higher Education and Advanced Technologies Center in Denver, Colorado
Dr. Richards and his wife Helen reside in Westtown. They are the parents of a daughter, Jennifer.
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MIDDLETOWN – You know you’re good at what you do.
How do you let the job market know?
You could hire a professional resume service, but since current conventional wisdom has it that you should send tailored, individual resumes out to each potential employer, that could get expensive.
You could, instead, learn how to do it yourself – for free – at SUNY Orange.
The Career Services Office will hold two workshops this month for job seekers. “Cover Letters and Resumes” will be offered on Tuesday, March 16 at the college’s Newburgh Extension Center, Room 208, at One Washington Center in the Key Bank Building, from 11 a.m. to 12 noon. “Naming Your Skills” will be offered on Thursday, March 18, in the College Commons, Room 337, at the Middletown campus at 115 South Street. The workshops are free and open to students and the public.
“Naming your skills is being able to recognize those abilities that are pertinent to the labor market, which are vital to your resume,” says Carol Wentzel, coordinator of Career Services at SUNY Orange.
This ability is especially important, she says, for individuals who may have been out of the workforce for some time. For example, stay-at-home mothers don’t always give themselves credit for skills they’ve developed through bake sales and volunteer activities: these skills can translate on a resume to time management and organization.
“Entry level college graduates often have a lot of book knowledge,” says Wentzel, “but they don’t understand how this translates to skills statements that are appropriate for a resume. Re-careering individuals sometimes don’t know how skills can transfer from one job to another, but they’re certainly most applicable.”
Wentzel spends at least an hour a day on a SUNY database of successful resumes – that is, resumes that have actually resulted in jobs for the seekers – to keep abreast of what works and what doesn’t. “You have to keep on top of it,” she says.
For more information about the workshops, please call the Career Services Office at (845) 341-4444.
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MIDDLETOWN – Adults returning to college after a long absence, or beginning college for the first time, face unique challenges – the kinds of challenges that Orange County Community College is well-suited to help students overcome.
To provide interested and prospective students the knowledge they need to get started on a college career, SUNY Orange will hold a “Just For You” Information Night on Monday, March 15, 2004 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the College Commons on the Middletown campus at 115 South Street.
Admissions counselors will begin the evening with a brief presentation outlining the many resources available to students, including the college’s Kindercollege child care program, Student Success Center, and Center for Adult Lifelong Learning programs, and other student support services.
Afterwards, there will be smaller group interaction for question and answer
sessions with admissions counselors.
For more information about this program, please contact the Admissions Office
at (845) 341-4030.
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MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College’s Field Studies program is offering an opportunity for students and the public this May 17-25 to travel to Poland, including Warsaw and the Baltic region. The trip can accommodate up to 25 travelers and will cost up to $1639, including travel, hotel and breakfast.
The major benefit of traveling with the college is not only the reasonable price, but the added bonus of traveling with a historian, which can enrich the experience.
The cost of the trip may be lower if there are a full 25 people traveling.
“This is a unique travel opportunity,” says Dr. Frank Kalesnik, the assistant professor at SUNY Orange who is sponsoring the trip. “This is an area rich in history and culture, and reasonable in price – and because of the collapse of Communism, this is an area of the world that was unavailable to visit just ten years ago.”
Kalesnik says Poland is putting a major effort into restoring its cultural landmarks, including Malbork Castle, the largest Gothic fortress in Europe and a stop on the tour.
“Warsaw is an impressive city,” he says. “It features architecture
from the medieval period all the way through the modern.”
Other cities on the tour include Golub and Gdansk. The deadline for sign-ups
is March 19.
For more information, please call Dr. Kalesnik at (845) 341-4344.
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MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College will offer a financial aid workshop in March for college-bound students in Middletown.
On March 10, 2004 at 6 p.m. at the Student Success Center in the College Commons on the Middletown campus, the Financial Aid office will offer a workshop to assist college-bound individuals in filling out financial aid forms. The workshop will begin promptly at 6 p.m., since it may run up to two hours, depending on the number attending.
Attendees must bring photocopies of their or their parents’ 2002 income tax returns, W-2 forms, and any other taxed or untaxed income information.
For more information about these workshops, please call (845) 341-4190.
MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College is proud to sponsor the Sojourner Truth Awards Program, an award program for elementary and secondary age students to promote positive consideration of college.
Students from grade six through 12 who have demonstrated skills in areas like language arts, mathematics, sciences, performing and media arts, athletics, citizenship and perseverance and effort will be recognized at an awards ceremony on Friday, March 5, 2004, at 7 p.m. In the event of snow the program will be held on Saturday, March 6, 2004 at 1 p.m. The event will be held at the Middletown campus in the Physical Education Building.
This program is named for Sojourner Truth in honor of this distinguished
woman, who lived in the mid-Hudson Valley region after escaping from slavery.
Ms. Truth is hailed as one of the most distinguished and highly-regarded women
of the nineteenth century.
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The college is currently accepting nominations from school districts. Corporate
funding support comes from Orange & Rockland Utilities. Additional financial
support is provided by the Orange County Community College Alumni Association
and the Educational Foundation of Orange County Community College.
To learn more about this program, please call the Office of Student Development at 341-4000 or e-mail bmedina@sunyorange.edu.