What’s New at SUNY?

1. Operation Inform08 What’s New at SUNY? The State University of New York

2. Today’s Program: • This workshop will look at the expansion taking place in SUNY in academic programs, student life and construction. • We will look at “SUNY Schools In the News” for new initiatives and special commendations. • We will discuss SUNY’s surge in the rankings in US News and World Report and beyond.

3. SUNY’s Growing: Community Colleges: New regional Higher Education Center at Adirondack Sixty two million dollar building project at Finger Lakes New Allied Health building at Monroe Social Work program at Nassau Invasive Cardiovascular Technology at Hudson Valley Women’s Lacrosse at Onondaga Women’s Crew at Schenectady

4. Technology Colleges: • 150 bed Townhouse Complex at Alfred State • Experimental Farm at Cobleskill • Baseball Stadium at Farmingdale • Cell phones given to all students at Morrisville • Criminal Justice Program at SUNYIT • Bioscience (Forensic DNA Technology) at Farmingdale • Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State

5. Colleges: Fifty six million dollar Campus Center at Oswego New 126 person Townhouse complex at Potsdam New Turf Field at Purchase Finance and Marketing at Brockport Communication Disorders at Fredonia Television Arts at Buffalo State

6. University Centers: Sixty million dollar donation for new Simmons Geometry and Physics Center at Stony Brook Over three billion dollars in funding for Nanotechnology Department at Albany Cornell ILR internship program in Hong Kong featuring collaboration between Business and Law Renewable Energies program at ESF Biomedical Engineering at Buffalo

7. In the News: Community Colleges: Dutchess President named to Business Hall of Fame Tompkins Cortland named “Best of NY” for Mobile TC3 by Center for Digital Government Cayuga opened the First Niagara Entrepreneurship Center funded by First Niagara Bank Onondaga National Champions in Tennis Herkimer National Champions in Track and Field

8. Technology Colleges: Canton takes 5th in nation at ASCE Steel Bridge Team competition Several Student Athletes Selected as All Americans at Alfred Cobleskill reaches Elite 8 in NJCAA Men’s Basketball SUNYIT President announces eighty five million dollars in Campus enhancements

9. Colleges: Fredonia receives US State Department Grant to teach Video Production and Film in Turkey New Paltz sends 14 students to Democratic National Convention Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown hosting exhibit from SUNY Purchase faculty Plattsburgh National Championship in Women’s Ice Hockey Cortland 2nd in nation in Men’s Lacrosse

10. University Centers: Fifty Thousand donated by Minnesota Twins reliever Joe Nathan for new baseball field at Stony Brook Your Business… Your UB at Buffalo (collaboration in training, marketing and research with local businesses) Carbon Neutral Bio-fuels project at ESF Think Binghamton… new gathering point for Binghamton supporters Four new interdisciplinary majors at Stony Brook Southampton in Ecosystems and Human Impact, Environmental Design, Policy and Planning, Sustainability Studies and Business Management

11. SUNY Ranked: 25 SUNY Colleges Ranked In US News and World Report For 2008!

12. Special Recognition: ESF – 15th for Great School at a Great Price Cornell – Top Vet Med School in Nation Geneseo, New Paltz, Oneonta and Fredonia - top 15 of Public Liberal Arts Colleges Old Westbury – 2nd for Ethnic Diversity & 18th for least debt Binghamton and Cortland – 100 Best Values (Kiplingers) Binghamton – Nations Most Green Campuses (Princeton Review) Stony Brook – New York News profiles twenty nine MD’s for Best Doctors of New York article

13. Questions and Discussion