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 […]
SUNY Old Westbury mourns the loss of first-year student, Tania Bonilla who died in a motor vehicle accident on Saturday, July 18th. Bonilla was driving on the eastbound on the Southern State Parkway heading towards Sagtikos State Parkway before 3 am when she left the roadway and struck a guardrail […]
SUNY Old Westbury announced its plans to hold instruction remotely for the fall 2020 semester after receiving approval from the State University of New York(SUNY). According to an email sent out to the campus community from the president’s office, classes in the fall will be taught in three different distance […]
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 […]
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 […]
Every day, nurses and doctors are constantly on their feet through long stressful hours, saving human lives during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While this past week was National Nurses Week, what special way to honor and give back to nurses by providing them a pair of Nikes. […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced during a briefing on April 27th that the medical centers being built on campus (along with the three other locations being built in the state) will be put on hold until the fall flu season, where it is expected for a second wave of the coronavirus […]
Given the unprecedented circumstances we have faced together this semester, the College’s Academic Standing Policy for Spring 2020 has been modified with the following provisions which expire after the Spring 2020 semester: If a student is currently in good academic standing, letter grading outcomes in which the semester/cumulative GPA falls […]
Dr. Llana Barber of the American Studies Department was recently awarded a Franklin Research Grant by the American Philosophical Society (APS) to conduct research for her project “No Refuge from Empire: Haitian Migration, Militarized Exclusion, and the Formation of the Nativist State.” The grant will support Barber’s research in Geneva and the Bahamas about […]
Visual Arts Professor Patricia Harris presents the “Semiotics of Typography” as part of the MALS Public Lecture Series.
