Just one week before the start of the State University of New York's spring semester, Governor Paterson announced the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act to be included in his Executive Budget for the 2010-11 year. The act will provide flexibility to the SUNY and City University of New York (CUNY) system. (0) comments
This year's Ghana winter session trip was hoping to include a tour of the finished library Brockport's Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has been building for the past three years. However, the building still sits uncompleted, due to village working constraints. The library will join four other school buildings in Medena, Ghana, where school children will be able to study and read books. (0) comments
Residents of Brockport and former members of the village's board of trustees say the Brockport Tax Cutters, a committee working to dissolve Brockport into the Town of Sweden, has ulterior, or undisclosed motives for its petitioning. "The folks pursuing dissolution need to be looked at," said former trustee Carrie Maziarz. (0) comments
A recent study done by psychologists and researchers at The University of Pennsylvania suggests that placebos may be as effective at treating mild to moderate depression as antidepressants. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are based on data gathered from six trials. (0) comments
Despite government policies to promote equal educational opportunities for persons of different races, nationalities and household incomes, the entering and graduating classes at many of the nation's top universities are not as diverse as the state's population which they represent and serve. (0) comments
The 27th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture will be given this year by Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, president of Tuskegee University. This lecture has been made available to the students at The College at Brockport through Brockport's Department of African and African-American Studies. (0) comments
Whether fans approve or not, Live Nation and Ticketmaster will soon be joining forces. According to www.mtv.com, the board of directors for each organization and the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday, Jan. 25 that merging into one company, Live Nation Entertainment, will benefit both music fans and the corporations involved. (0) comments
State colleges and universities were created to offer high-quality education to students who can't afford private universities. To further help underprivileged students, state colleges began offering financial aid and institution grants. Despite this, an Education Trust report shows many schools aren't as generous to needy students as they could be. (0) comments