State University of New York Community College an Investment in Knowledge Pays the Best Interest
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COMMUNITY COLLEGE AN INVESTMENT IN KNOWLEDGE PAYS THE BEST INTEREST. SUNY ADK BY THE NUMBERS Benjamin Franklin 40% 2017 OF SUNY ADK FINANCIAL 2017 FALL GRADUATES 3,964 ENROLLMENT TRANSFERRED AID TO A FOUR-YEAR AWARDED Chancellor’s Awards SCHOOL WITHIN UPWARD BOUND COLLEGE PREP LALE DAVIDSON ONE YEAR OF Distinguished Professor of English GRADUATION NOW IN 13 AREA HIGH SCHOOLS Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities COURTNEY REID Professor of English 761 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Excellence in Teaching ENROLLED IN EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAMS ANTHONY PALANGI 100% Director of Facilities RESIDENCE COLLEGE RECEIVED MORE THAN $13 MILLION Excellence in Professional Service HALL DEBBIE GODNICK $8,970,008 OCCUPANCY IN GRANTS SINCE 2013 Secretary II FOR PAST Excellence in Classified Service THREE THERESA BETZ YEARS Student Excellence 77% DEGREE 2018 STEPHANIE MCLAIN FULL-TIME PROGRAMS & 42 583 GRADUATES Student Excellence STUDENTS CONCENTRATIONS RECEIVING FINANCIAL President’s Awards AID MARYANN FALLER WILTON Professor of Mathematics VETERAN/ Excellence in Teaching, Senior Faculty 107 ACTIVE MILITARY 718 CENTER STUDENTS ENROLLMENT THOMAS BOBAL Associate Professor of History Excellence in Teaching, Junior Faculty ANGELA SPACKMANN Banner Functional Support Specialist 1+1 DEGREE TOTAL Excellence in Administrative Service PARTNERSHIPS 3 402 EMPLOYEES MELISSA FRENCH Secretary II Excellence in Classified Service EveryFrom year in May Ithe have Presidentleadership. Educating and training classrooms. The new space will help the honor and privilege of upstate New York’s workforce us educate and train the region’s watching SUNY Adirondack strengthens the region, making it workforce in the vital local hospitality students walk across the a better place for people to live and industry, as well as provide unique graduation stage, claiming thrive. Business Central, part of workshops and experiences for our their well-earned degrees and SUNY Adirondack’s recently community. certificates. Many are the first expanded Adirondack Hall, SUNY Adirondack continues to in their families to achieve college adds a new chapter to the evolve and grow as it responds to degrees and have overcome signif- college’s commitment to community needs. In the past growing and evolving the icant obstacles along the way. Our year, the college has added local economy. The Center for faculty and staff have been partners 10 new academic programs, Entrepreneurship is a resource for in this journey, and I am proud of all including agricultural busi- business-minded students and small of them for their hard work and ness, culinary and baking businesses to begin and expand. commitment to education. arts, cybersecurity, fine arts, The facility is a hub for services and physical education studies Since 1961, SUNY Adirondack has programming to develop, promote and mechatronics, a curric- “Each student’s success, made higher education more acces- and connect businesses of all sizes to ulum developed to meet the inclusive of all backgrounds, sible to residents of Warren, Wash- create, and retain jobs in our region. specific technological work- ington and Saratoga counties and Also in Adirondack Hall, Northwest goals and experiences, is a force demands of the region’s beyond. From students directly out of Bay Conference Center complements celebration of the strong top industrial employers. high school to adults looking to start Business Central with a state-of-the- commitment our faculty, staf f, a new chapter, the college has creat- art venue able to accommodate small SUNY Adirondack is committed to trustees and community partners ed opportunities for generations of meetings and support workforce the prosperity of upstate New York, have to higher education.” local residents. We are proud of our training, conferences and events. and we invite you to be an advocate rich tradition of a balanced curricu- for the valuable work we do. lum that challenges students’ views The new SUNY Adirondack and assumptions, with applications Culinary Center at 14 Hudson We thank you for your support. to the work world. Our goal is to Ave. in Glens Falls has gotten create lifelong learners who thrive a lot of attention, and we can’t Sincerely, in an ever-changing world. wait to introduce the public to Seasoned, our student-run gourmet Part of this college’s mission is to dining experience. The site also serve as a stimulus for economic features a bake shop, a gluten-free Kristine D. Duffy, Ed.D. development, partnerships and restaurant kitchen and standard DEGREES: Accounting // Agricultural Business // Business Administration // Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship CERTIFICATE: Entrepreneurship and Business Management “I got promoted to director of sales not even a full year Writing the Next Chapter after I got my degree, and they specifically said that it was because they saw me work so Yvonne Manso has fewer items on her bucket list. hard to get through college.” Graduating from SUNY taking classes part time “I wasn’t this great high Adirondack helped Manso around her work schedule. school student, but I made fulfill a lifelong dream — and the Dean’s list and I got two After seeing her commit- get ahead in the business awards of excellence in ment to education over world. college,” she said. two semesters, her “When I was 44, I was sit- employer, D.A. Collins Manso graduated in 2016. ting around the dinner table Companies, made a deal. “I was promoted to director with a bunch of friends and “They made me an offer to of sales not even a full year talking about our lives. My stay with the company and after I got my degree, and biggest disappointment was gave me a bump in salary,” they specifically said that it that I never got any kind of Manso said. was because they saw me college degree,” said Manso, work so hard to get through who lives in Stillwater. “My She switched her major to college,” she said. cousins and people I work marketing and began taking with had gone to college, business classes that would But her degree has earned and I felt like I was lacking.” help her in the workplace. her more than professional She scheduled classes at the success. Manso, an Army veteran, college’s Wilton Center, had a good job and a long which is close to her job. work history, but she want- "I feel like I have so much more inner ed to attain that educational Balancing a career and benchmark people tradi- school was a struggle at strength," she said. tionally start just after high times, but Manso, who "I really needed to school. She wasn’t going to often studied in the do this for myself. let age get in the way. conference room at work It gave me more during her lunch break, confidence." She registered for college in is proud that she put in 2010 with plans on pursuing the effort required to a nursing degree and began be successful. SUNY Adirondack recently launched an Fast-Forwarding accelerated degree in business administration to help busy adults pursue a college degree. Ryan Thomas adult learner coordinator Business SuccessRyan Thomas, adult learner coordina- degree in business administration will The new program, which tor at the college, has been working bring new energy to the program. closely with local businesses and civic Did You Know? is geared toward the busy “As a professor, I have found that organizations to connect working After completing an associate degree at working adult with career students who come to college later adults with the flexible degree SUNY Adirondack, graduates also have the and family obligations, in life are typically excellent students. program, which offers the college’s opportunity to transfer earned credits makes it possible to They are motivated and they come in existing business administration toward a bachelor’s degree. complete an associate prepared. They already have experi- degree at a faster pace. degree in 16 months ence on how to budget their time and SUNY Adirondack offers seamless transfer or less. “The local business community has they often serve as unofficial mentors to a number of four-year colleges, including been very enthusiastic, supportive and for other students,” Arpey said. SUNY Plattsburgh at Queensbury, Classes run two nights excited to hear that we have an option SUNY Adirondack’s business division SUNY Empire, University at Albany, Siena, a week, with additional for their employees to attain a degree has a strong track record, making it St. Rose and Excelsior College. coursework completed and manage other life priorities at the an excellent choice for people in the online. Course formats same time,” Thomas said. include both accelerated Capital District looking to advance Fast Facts John Arpey, distinguished professor their careers. (seven-week classes) Jobs in business-related occupations are of business and chair of the business “We run some of the biggest programs expected to grow more than 15 percent in and traditional (15-week division, is confident that making it in the state, and we have extremely Warren, Washington and Saratoga classes) semester formats. more convenient for adults with a qualified faculty. We have some very counties in the next 10 years. wealth of life experience to pursue a experienced people,” Arpey said. STUDENTS OVER THE AGE OF 25 ARE THE FASTEST-GROWING SEGMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION. From 2000 to 2012, the enrollment of students over the age of 25 increased by 35 percent nationwide. By 2019, the share of students over age 25 is projected to increase by another 23 percent. SUNY Adirondack alumnus Joshua Daly is leading the next generation of entrepreneurs. Theresa Betz is Honored proof that hard work Putting the Chicken First really does pay off. to Serve Joshua Daly, a SUNY In addition to having a big “They both really opened A recent graduate from “It is always important to Betz said SUNY Adiron- Adirondack alumnus who idea, Daly also did market my eyes.