Campus News

Alfred State is hosting a poetry reading with acclaimed poet Dr. Juliana Gray on Wednesday, Feb. 20 in the Allegany Room in the Central Dining Hall on the Alfred State campus. The evening event is free and open to the public. The program begins with a short reception at 6 p.m. followed by a reading by Dr. Gray and a discussion from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Dr. Gray is an associate professor of English at Alfred University and the recipient of the 2010 Orphic Book Prize from Dream Horse Press and the 2010 Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry.

Alfred State is participating in SUNY Financial Aid Day, Saturday, Feb. 9. beginning at 9 a.m. in the EJ Brown Business Building, Room 414, on the Alfred campus.

SUNY Financial Aid Day is held annually to help prospective students and families understand the financial aid process and give them assistance with filing the financial aid application and understanding the types of aid available and the award process.

An exhibit of architectural models and process oriented digital prints is on display at the Hinkle Memorial Library Gallery on the Alfred State campus throughout the month of February. Created by Alfred State architecture students, the models are each roughly 2ft. by 2 ft. in size and were produced from sketches that were transformed into digital designs and turned into 3D models. The exhibit is free and open to the public during normal business hours. Visitors are welcome to park in parking area no. 8 on the college loop.

Alfred State’s exclusive vendor of campus dining, vending and transportation, ACES (Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services), has been awarded the 2012 Outstanding Multimedia/Emerging Technology award by the National Orientation Director’s Association. This is the second year ACES has earned the annual NODA distinction which recognizes excellence in the development of tools designed to help colleges and universities provide effective orientation services to new students.

Dr. Ron Rhoades, curriculum coordinator for Alfred State’s financial services associate degree program, has been elected chair of the Steering Committee of The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard (CFS). The CFS seeks to help inform and nurture a public discussion on the fiduciary standard and encourage its adoption by all providers of investment and financial planning advice within the securities industry.

The technical education practitioners and scholars who are defining sustainability in higher education will gather at Alfred State this summer for the college’s second sustainability conference, June 6-8. These leaders will present on innovations related to sustainable agriculture/food systems, renewable energy and energy efficiency, green construction, and more.

Six architectural technology students from Alfred State presented at the annual Appalachian Teaching Project (ATP) conference last month in Washington, DC.

The six seniors presented on the work they did last semester as part of a course called Design Studio 5: Urban Design in which they worked closely with residents and community leaders in the nearby community of Bath. The students created architectural plans for the community which were well received and may be considered for future implementation.

Alfred State is featured in the December 2012 issue of Sustainability: The Journal of Record (pdf) for earning the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) Award last fall at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Alfred State announces the appointment of Greg Sammons to the position of Vice President for Student Affairs.

Fourteen Alfred State Building Trades students have been recognized by the City Council of the City of New Orleans for work they performed this fall as part of the 12-week “Semester in the South” project-based learning/civic engagement experience.