The University has been given the opportunity to assist students facing economic and educational challenges. The Second Chance Scholarship Program, established by the Joseph J. Mastrangelo and Ralph Arnold Foundation, will support students who have the potential and desire — but not the financial means — to succeed in post-secondary studies.
Avaliable to 10 students each year, the scholarship provides assistance to help individuals realize their full academic potential while enrolled in a degree-granting program at Albany. The amount of the award is based on their academic performance and the number of credit hours successfully completed each semester, thereby challenging students to excel academically. The better their cumulative average, the larger their award, to a maximum of $1,500.
Interested students are being asked to contact Carson Carr, associate dean of Undergraduate Studies, at 442-3440 for application information and scholarship criteria. Application deadline is Oct. 15.
On Sept. 14 the University’s student chapter of the Financial Management Association was awarded the “Superior Chapter” designation by the Association’s international board.
The Association is a worldwide organization dedicated to promoting the exchange of ideas between financial practitioners and the academic community. Only 17 of 283 collegiate chapters received this recognition for their activities during academic year 1996-97.
The emergency repair performed on the University’s electrical feeder in August will become permanent through work on the Business Administration and Education buildings on Friday, Oct. 3, and then on the Academic Podium on Nov. 28.
As a result, electrical power interruptions of less than 15 minutes apiece will occur in the two buildings on the morning of Oct. 3, beginning at 6:30 a.m. A power outage of 12 hours will be required on Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving.
The Patroon Room’s Fall Buffet takes place Wednesday, Oct. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. For $5.95 per person, the menu includes entrees of Chicken Alexander, Cajun jambalaya pasta, and white fish Florentine; and side dishes of baked fall squash with cider, rice primavera and fresh broccoli. Antipasto and Patroon salad, pumpkin bread, apple crisp and sweet potato pie top off the autumnal regale.
For reservations, call 442-5985.
The New York Capital Region Chapter of the American Marketing Association has named the University’s School of Business as a finalist in its 1997 Mark of Excellence Awards for its graduate student-recruitment campaign.
Winners will be announced at the Association’s third annual Mark of Excellence Awards Dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Glen Sanders Mansion in Scotia.
The article “Educators Score at the Ballot Box” in the Sept. 17 Update unintentionally omitted some other elected regional leaders who are part of the University community. John Murphy, director of Judicial Affairs in the Office of Student Affairs, is the deputy mayor of the Town of Stillwater. Eugene Monaco of the Professional Development Program at Rockefeller College was a 14-year member of the Niskayuna Board of Education. Emeritus professor of computer science Edwin Reilly was long-time supervisor of the Town of Niskayuna.
The University Police Department (UPD)has received a three-year, $44,000 “COPSMORE” grant from the Justice Department to hire two communications officers. The grant will fund two new civilian dispatch positions by paying part of their salaries. This will allow two police officers who would normally have dispatching duties to be assigned to community policing patrol duties.
“I am delighted that this grant will result in additional uniformed officers interacting with the University community,” said James P. Doellefeld, vice president for Student Affairs. “UPD Chief Frank Wiley’s community policing philosophy will be advanced by these additional interactions.”
The awarding of this grant will allow UPD to increase police presence through foot and bicycle patrols and allow additional educational programming.
The tour, which is to last for three hours, will focus on The Albany Pine Bush Reserve, “deep dunes,” geological formations that have occurred through time, and the metamorphosis of the glaciers that once existed and are now considered the “Lake Albany Shores.”
“The Wetlands known to us as Indian Lake is the home of natural vegetation, fish, reptiles, amphibians and about 175 different species of birds,” said Robinson. “And around the Health Center can be found wild turkeys.”