At a glance
“Blue Chair Stories will cover different themes in the installments for an authentic view of the college from current students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It has been fun to see the first couple episodes come together, and I look forward to seeing where we can take this series."
Stephanie LaFever
Associate Director of Marketing Communications
Alfred State students often enjoy relaxing, studying, and hanging out with friends in Adirondack chairs around the scenic Southern Tier campus. The multi-colored chairs along with clusters of hammocks provide comfortable places for students, faculty, and staff to kick back and be themselves.
Seeing how comfortable and at home Pioneers are when relaxing around campus, it’s a natural place to get to the real stories and opinions that people have about Alfred State. The content creation team at ASC, composed of staff and students, started bringing a blue chair with them to events around campus to ask questions. The iconic blue chairs are a great place for people to share their personal thoughts and insights, to relax and tell it like it is.
Blue Chair Stories debuts with students and faculty answering if they share a closeness in the community and if they even love Alfred State. The sincerity in the answers and sense of awe for it being a special place are evident with participants across both the Alfred and Wellsville campuses. These blue chairs go into labs, dining halls, and all over as a sort of confessional to videotape a variety of stories and points of view.
“This is one of two new video series that our office has undertaken this semester,” commented Associate Director of Marketing Communications Stephanie LaFever. “Blue Chair Stories will cover different themes in the installments for an authentic view of the college from current students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It has been fun to see the first couple episodes come together, and I look forward to seeing where we can take this series. Later this semester we will also debut Class with Carrie as our VP of Academic Affairs visits tons of different locations to check in with faculty and students.”
These video installments will be available on the Alfred State YouTube channel. The first episode, Why I Love Alfred, is now published.
LaFever continued, “students and faculty should be on the lookout for our content creation team and the blue chair. We are excited to hear the answers to our future questions.”