College News – Campus News

December 20, 2024

NCC class helps the homeless

By Regina Pinkhasov Special to Campus News On Saturday, December 7, 2024, Professor Sophia Aidiniou and her dedicated students from the Health courses she…

December 5, 2024

STAC partners with Rockland County to offer courses for employees

St. Thomas Aquinas College announced a new partnership with the County of Rockland designed to make affordable undergraduate and graduate degrees accessible for the…

November 29, 2024

The Top Overplayed Holiday Songs vs. The Songs I Can Tolerate

By Darren Johnson Campus News Recently, I did a radio show on “The Top 10 Holiday Songs I Can Tolerate.” Here it is as…

November 21, 2024

SUNY grants for technologies tackling serious illnesses, the environment

State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr. yesterday announced $425,000 in seed funding through the Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) has been…

November 21, 2024

RCC Launches ASAP Program

State and local lawmakers, students, and SUNY officials this past month joined Rockland Community College leaders in highlighting the benefits and expansion of the…

November 7, 2024

STAC students to help provide Thanksgiving meals to seniors in need

St. Thomas Aquinas Students will host “STACsGiving” on Tuesday, November 19th, from 1:00–2:25 PM in the Romano Student Alumni Center at St. Thomas Aquinas…

June 21, 2024

A political science student, from community college to getting a master’s at the CUNY Graduate Center

By Janna Rojas Special to Campus News Born and raised in the Bronx, Justin Castro didn’t plan to go to college. His idea was…

June 19, 2024

SUNY Adirondack president to retire

The SUNY Adirondack Board of Trustees has accepted a letter of resignation for the purposes of retirement from Kristine D Duffy, Ed.D., the seventh…

June 7, 2024

Rápalo is out at RCC

Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo and the Board of Trustees of Rockland Community College have agreed to part ways. Negotiations of the specific terms…

June 5, 2024

Nassau adds ASAP program to promote college completion

Nassau Community College, a campus of the State University of New York, is accepting students into its new ASAP (Advancing Success in Associate Pathways)…

June 5, 2024

Chancellor announces new civics component to SUNY education

Following State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr.’s second State of the University address, Chancellor King today announced actions to advance…

May 23, 2024

Students create urban farm at LaGuardia CC

Sustainable Urban Agriculture students at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY have begun cultivation of the new LaGuardia Urban Farm and Research Laboratory on campus. On May…

May 23, 2024

Rockland CC celebrates Commencement

Rockland Community College (RCC) hosted its 64th Commencement Ceremony on Monday, May 20, 2024, at Clover Stadium in Pomona, New York. The ceremony honored…

April 7, 2024

NCAA athletes can now cash in — talking to an expert on NIL

By Nancy Scuri Campus News As of 2021, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) revised their decades-old prohibition on a student athlete from marketing…

February 6, 2024

Colleges hope for enrollment boom

By Tristan Brown-DeVirgilio Campus News Will things return to normal? Enrollment in New York State has not been looking up the past decade. Overall…