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After delays caused by Covid, problems with supply chains, and even the weather, significant campus renovations are expected to be completed by the late spring. Major renovations include the Media Innovation Center, the Duane L. Jones Recital Hall, and the Clark Athletic Fields and Gym. The original proposal for the […]
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Good morning, Effective today, SUNY Old Westbury is launching a testing program as a means to survey the prevalence of COVID-19 in our campus community. This program is consistent with the recent SUNY policy requiring all campuses to conduct surveillance testing for COVID-19. In short, we are asking all at […]
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Old Westbury, New York…September 16, 2020… SUNY Chancellor James Malatras and the SUNY Board of Trustees officially appointed Calvin O. Butts, III as President Emeritus of the State University of New York at Old Westbury, in recognition of his 20 years of distinguished service to the college. The appointment was […]
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Good Afternoon! SUNY Old Westbury today posted to its website a campus COVID-19 Status page that provides information on the campus’ testing efforts, including test results and numbers of positive COVID-19 cases affecting members of the campus. This page was created to promote greater transparency about our shared progress in keeping the […]
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Albany – State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras today launched SUNY’s “Mask Up or Pack Up” campaign to promote universal compliance with evidence-based COVID-19 safety guidelines across SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities. Chancellor Malatras is issuing a call for creative video submissions from students urging their classmates to […]
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To the SUNY Old Westbury Community: I am writing to you today, my last day actively leading SUNY Old Westbury as president. As was previously announced, I am retiring from the day-to-day responsibilities as president and beginning a 10-month Presidential Study Leave. As I step away, I am proud to […]
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Both editors, Brianna Knibbs and Alanna Iacovetti are convincing students to get involved in the Catalyst through the upcoming Virtual Fall 2020 Club Bash happening on Wednesday, Sept 2nd during common hour from 2:40pm-3:50pm.
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Good afternoon, I am pleased to report that our campus-based efforts around the search for the next President of SUNY Old Westbury are complete. The College Council yesterday determined its list of three finalists for the position, and I have forwarded that list to SUNY. The Presidential Search Committee did […]
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Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth […]
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Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot.Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed-race women of African […]