School of Arts and Sciences

When someone you love needs help, you don’t think about the cost of helping…you jump in with both feet to see what you can do.

Karen M. Young, associate professor and chair of the Computerized Design and Manufacturing Department of Alfred State College, has been elected chair of that body’s Faculty Senate. The chair is elected for a two-year term and may serve two consecutive terms.

Alfred State College students of years past may remember long cafeteria lines where white-clad women ladled portions of sometimes unidentifiable food onto their plates as they passed chafing dishes holding pre-cooked breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. 

But fall semester 2009 ushers in a whole new era of fresh, customizable, and delicious all-you-care-to eat dining at The Terrace at Central Dining Hall. Following a major rehab—in structure, equipment, and decor—students may now select from among six unique specialty serving areas (or they may sample them all!).

Dr. Richard Kellogg, professor of psychology, Alfred State College, participated in an Open House at the historic Higgins-Ballard-Wylie home in Rushford, Sept. 6, 2009.  The current owner of the home, Ronald Beverly, played the role of NYS Gov. Frank Higgins, who was born in the home and spent his early years in Rushford.  The role of Dr. Ballard, the village physician who occupied the home for many years, was played by a member of the Ballard family.  Kellogg impersonated author Philip Wylie, who spent summers in Rushford from 1938, the year in which he married Dr.

Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Alfred State College, pursued several academic activities recently:

Yatani has had a paper titled “With Us or Against Us: American Images of the Enemy” (presented at the 20^th Oxford Round Table in March 2008) published in Terrorism and Global Insecurity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (Ch. 7, 137-148, 2009) by Alexander Klint (Ed.), Linton Atlantic Books, Ltd.