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Release
UAlbany Welcomes Students,
Offers New Programs
Contact: Lisa James Goldsberry (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (August 27, 2004) -- Carrying
boxes of computers, notebooks, and CD players,
University at Albany dorm students today began
to arrive for the Monday, August 30 start of
the fall 2004 semester. Among the changes they
will encounter on campus are new academic programs,
new faculty, improvements in several campus
buildings, and expanded parking.
In addition to 31 new full-time faculty, UAlbany
students will be offered several new courses
and expanded programs. The College of Arts and
Sciences offers two new journalism courses,
�Public Affairs Reporting� and �Broadcast Journalism,�
as part of a continuing effort to give students
the most contemporary training in reporting,
writing and analysis, and to push toward instituting
the region's first major in journalism.
The College of Arts and Sciences will offer
a special graduate readings course in German
and the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs
and Policy will launch a new certificate in
public security, which includes course work
on terrorism.
UAlbany�s Science Research in the High School,
an outreach program which gives high school
students in nearly 150 high schools throughout
the state the opportunity to conduct their own
research, is formally launching a Scientist-in-Residence
program.
Improvements have been made to the physical
plant as well. The Parking and Mass Transit
Office has moved to a new location near the
Chemistry building. The old parking management
facility was demolished over the summer to make
way for Podium West, a new parking lot for students,
faculty and staff that will add some 216 spaces.
Other projects include the re-opening of Oneida
Hall on Indian Quad after substantial renovation,
completion of work on 10 more classrooms in
the Humanities building and three lecture center
rooms, and renovations to the first floor of
Milne Hall on the downtown campus.
The class of 2008 was drawn from about 17,000
applicants. The University will enroll about
2,060 students for fall 2004, and admitted about
150 fewer than fall 2003, facilitating its move
toward higher selectivity. Included among them
are more than 200 high-achieving Presidential
and Frederick Douglass Scholars, as well as
two National Merit Finalists. They bring with
them a high school GPA average of 90.7, up from
90.1 last year, and mean combined SAT scores
of 1166, 150 points higher than the national
average. Twenty-one percent of this class ranked
in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating
class.
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