January 2006
SUNY Orange
to hold second annual All-Alumni Reunion
MIDDLETOWN - Orange County Community College will kick off its
second annual All-Alumni Reunion on Feb. 4, 2006 at the 1 o'clock
men's basketball game against Queensborough Community College at
the Physical Education Building on E. Conklin Avenue at the Middletown
campus. A reception will follow at the Orange Hall Gallery in the
inner campus.
The event is free and open to the public, especially all alumni
of the college. Former basketball athletes will be honored. Halftime
events will include an iPod raffle and a chance for game-goers
to win a car from Healey Brothers in Middletown. Also on display
will be the SUNY Orange custom-built Orange County Chopper motorcycle.
Tickets to win the chopper will be available at the event.
For more information about the All-Alumni Reunion, please call
Elizabeth Bushey at 845-341-4728 or e-mail ebushey@sunyorange.edu,
or call Wayne Smith at 845-341-4261 or e-mail wsmith@sunyorange.edu.
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Financial Aid Workshop available
to students and the public at SUNY Orange
MIDDLETOWN - Orange County Community College will offer a financial
aid workshop at 6 p.m. on Feb. 15 for college-bound students in
the Student Success Center in the College Commons on the Middletown
campus at 115 South Street.
This free workshop, which is open to both students of SUNY Orange
and to the public, will assist students in filling out financial
aid forms.
The workshop will begin promptly at the times stated, since they
may run up to two hours, depending on the number attending.
Attendees must bring photocopies of their or their parents' 2004
income tax returns, W-2 forms, and any other taxed or untaxed income
information.
For more information, please call (845) 341-4190.
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SUNY Orange Admissions at
the Galleria at Crystal Run
MIDDLETOWN - The Admissions Office of Orange County Community
College will be at the Galleria at Crystal Run on Sunday, Feb.
5 from noon to 4 p.m. so prospective students can learn about SUNY
Orange and its many programs and services while they're out and
about. The booth will be located at the lower level atrium in front
of J.C. Penney.
For more information, please call (845) 341-4030.
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SUNY Orange offers
Ireland trip this spring
MIDDLETOWN - Orange County Community College's department of
English and foreign languages is sponsoring its second annual trip
to Ireland this spring from May 16 to May 24, 2006. The trip, which
is open to all members of the community, may be taken for one college
credit, and includes round-trip flights from JFK Airport to Shannon
Airport, full breakfasts, guided transport by luxury motorcoach
for eight days, tea and scones at a traditional Irish farmhouse,
a medieval banquet at an Irish castle, guided tours of Dublin,
a performance at the Abbey Theater and more.
The cost is between $2,299 and $2,599 per person sharing twin
rooms, and includes all airline departure taxes. Single rooms and
travel insurance are available.
For additional rates, and all other questions, please call Dr.
Kathy Malia at (845) 341-4005 or e-mail kmalia@sunyorange.edu.
» Read more about this trip
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SUNY Orange staffers chosen
for prestigious education symposium
This February, five selected Orange County Community College
staffers will be flown to San Antonio, Texas to attend the prestigious
fourth annual USA Funds Symposium of 55 minority-serving postsecondary
educational institutions nationwide. All expenses for the SUNY
Orange representatives will be paid for by USA Funds, the nation's
largest education-loan guarantor.
Paul Broadie, vice president for student development; Christine
Work, coordinator for academic assessment; Madeline Torres-Diaz,
coordinator of student support services; Eileen Burke, coordinator
of learning assistance services and Joseph Cutshall-King, coordinator
of grants will attend the Symposium from Feb. 22 to Feb. 24.
USA Funds is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to support "preparation
for, access to and success in higher education," according
to last year's annual statement. According to their web site, at http://www.usafunds.org/,
the 45-year-old organization "links colleges, universities,
private career schools, private lenders, students and parents to
promote financial access to higher learning."
The Symposium covers topics relevant both to educators and to
students. Last year's theme was keeping students in school. "Implementing
Collaborative Strategies" took place in Scottsdale, Ariz.,
and gathered 150 administrators from 55 institutions to discuss
student retention. USA Funds debt management team gave an additional
21 workshops to almost 400 higher-education representatives about
retention's role in loan default prevention, as well.
For more information, please contact Fontaine McNamara at 845-341-4337
or e-mail her fmcnamar@sunyorange.edu.
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Gov.
Pataki announces additional $15 million for SUNY Orange Newburgh
campus
1/12/2006
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NEWBURGH - When Gov. George Pataki announced to the crowd gathered
today at the Orange County Community College Newburgh Extension
Center Assembly Room at One Washington Center that the budget he
would submit next Tuesday would contain a proposal for an additional
$15 million for an annex campus, he received a standing ovation.
Focusing, he said, on intelligent growth in Orange County, Pataki
said it has long been a priority of his office to provide more
funding for economic development. "Today," Pataki said, "we
take another step."
Pataki made mention of his commitment to "bringing downtowns
back," alluding to SUNY Orange president Bill Richard's determination
to locate the Newburgh campus in downtown Newburgh.
Pataki also referred not only to the role the College plays in
the economic development of the city, noting that the presence
of the institution makes the area more attractive to companies,
but also to the long-range role the College plays in the education
of its citizens.
"We have to make sure our great State University system gets
better and better," Pataki said. "Community colleges
play a critical role in allowing people to develop the skills they
need to get out into the workplace."
The governor also thanked Senator Bill Larkin for his tireless
efforts on behalf of the College and the city of Newburgh, and
the Kaplan family for their generosity toward the project. "You
have the most passionate fighter – not just for this project,
but for Orange County. This just doesn't happen without dedication
and passion," Pataki said of Senator Larkin.
William Kaplan spoke briefly, mentioning his family, and the various
terms throughout the generations that would have described the
moment, finally settling on the word, "Awesome."
"One of the great community colleges we have is Orange County
Community College," Pataki said. "It's outstanding."
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SUNY Orange
Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE) offers lifetime learning
for your career
Orange County Community College's department
of Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE) is offering
morning and evening classes at the Newburgh Extension Center
at One Washington Center in all major computer applications,
information technology, bookkeeping, office procedures and job
readiness to prepare people to enter the workplace or to advance
their careers. There is also a one-month CDL truck driver training
course, which has a 90 percent job placement record.
Classes are ongoing and prospective students can register any
time for low-cost, high-results learning. Day classes meet from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; evening classes meet from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30
p.m.
For more information on these and other courses, please contact
Lou DeFeo at 845-341-4532, or via e-mail at ldefeo@sunyorange.edu
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SUNY Orange counts
girls in for National Girls in Sports Day
MIDDLETOWN - Orange County Community College's department
of Movement Science will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of
National Girls in Sports Day on Feb. 11, 2006 by holding an all-day
event for the first 125 local girls ages seven to 14 who pre-register
for sports, swimming, wellness activities and more.
"It's a great thing," says department chair Sheila Stepp. "It's
a wonderful opportunity for us to bring girls in and let them see
competitive sports and explore areas of health and wellness."
To participate, girls can call 845-341-4885 or e-mail Sharon Ahearn,
coordinator of recreation at SUNY Orange at sahearn@sunyorange.edu.
The event begins at 9 a.m. at the Physical Education Building
at East Conklin Avenue at the Middletown campus, where the girls
will participate in various fitness, wellness and sports activities,
and can attend a SUNY Orange women's basketball game.
After the game, the girls will be able to swim in the College's
Olympic-size pool.
Organized by the National Girls and Women in Sports Coalition,
National Girls and Women in Sports Day involves over 5 million
members across the country. This year's theme is "Count me
in."
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SUNY Orange Adopt-A-Family
Program bring holiday cheer
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A U-Haul truck filled
with gifts from SUNY Orange faculty, staff and students to be
delivered to needy families throughout Orange County in partnership
with the Family Empowerment Project
Left, James Schueler,
project manager, and right, Sharon David, service coordinator,
for the Family Empowerment Project. Together with SUNY Orange,
the Adopt-A-Family program delivers gifts to families in need
throughout Orange County.
MIDDLETOWN - On Wednesday, Dec. 14, James
Schueler, project manager, and Sharon David, service coordinator
for the Family Empowerment Project loaded a U-Haul full of gifts
from SUNY Orange faculty, staff and students as the third annual
Adopt-A-Family program wrapped up in the bitter cold.
"It's totally unbelievable," says Schueler of the donations. "It's
really because of [the college] that we're able to take care of
the whole families."
"It floors you," says David. "It really does. You
get requests in, and they're granted."
Through the Adopt-A-Family program at SUNY Orange, nearly 70 needy
families are provided gifts, food and other necessities by almost
every College department. Each department adopts one or two families.
"The mother asked for a bathrobe," says English professor
Anne Sandor, whose department regularly adopts a family, "but
we always throw in something extra that she would never buy for
herself."
Schueler, whose organization provides necessities year-round to
families in need, works with several other organizations throughout
the holidays to provide gifts for families, but for the neediest
families, he turns to SUNY Orange. "The really desperate ones," he
says, "need OCCC."
The most stirring story this year was that of one boy, who was
blind, and so severely disabled that ordinary gifts would be unsuitable.
His family was "adopted" by the College's department
of Health Services. The director, Mary Mulrooney-Kenny, R.N., learned
his lifelong dream was to attend the Radio City Music Hall Show.
The department not only bought tickets for him and his mother
- they bought a third ticket for a nurse to accompany him, and
researched Radio City Music Hall to make sure that there were sufficient
accommodations for his disability. Additionally, they gave him
spending money.
The Family Empowerment Project, according to Schueler, started
off over a decade ago with simple holiday baskets, and has grown
since to the large-scale giving project it is today. Still, says
Schueler: "It's really through OCCC that we're able to take
care of the whole family."
Eileen Lux, grants coordinator for human resources at SUNY Orange,
who coordinates the Adopt-A-Family project with Schueler, loves
to talk about it, but cannot do so for long. "I get tears
in my eyes," she says with a smile.
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SUNY Orange Offers Instant
Admissions
Orange County Community College's department of Admissions is
offering the opportunity to get admitted to college immediately
with its Instant Admissions program, available now both at the
Middletown and Newburgh campuses.
Prospective students can come in and fill out and application
at the Admissions Office on the third floor of the College Commons
at 115 South Street in Middletown, or at the Newburgh Extension
Center at the Key Bank Building at One Washington Center, where
they will receive specific directions for admission, assessment
and registration for the spring semester.
Application fees are $30 for new students, $20 for re-admitted
students. For more details on this program, please visit the SUNY
Orange Admissions web site at http://www.sunyorange.edu/admissions/apply/instant.shtml or
call the Office of Admissions at 845-341-4030.
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