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7 SUNY Campuses Named Among Top “Return on Investment”

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7 SUNY Campuses Ranked Among Nation's Highest Return on Investment 2013 by PayScale Inc.

Seven SUNY campuses’ return on investment (“ROI”) have been named among the top in the nation, according to ranking agency PayScale in its 2013 College Return on Investment (ROI) Report. The seven SUNY institutions, among the top 400 ranked, are some of the two dozen SUNY campuses named in the list. SUNY Maritime College ranks fifth over all, beating out every Ivy League school and both Maritime College and Stony Brook University have projected returns on investment of over a million dollars.

The results are based on an analysis of PayScale‘s 40 million career profiles; the report examines the return on investment at 1060 public and private colleges and universities in the United States and then ranks them in a comparison to investing money in other ways, like interest with a bank.

The seven SUNY campuses that are among the top 400, in reference to in-state tuition, are:

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Governor Cuomo Announces Tax-Free NY to Spur Business & Investment (UPDATEx2)

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Tax Free NY graphic - Transforming University Communities into Magnets for New Business and Investment

Governor Cuomo announced today a new Tax Free New York program that will transform SUNY campuses into magnets for new business. The program replicates successes across New York at select SUNY campuses, such as UAlbany and CNSE, SUNYIT, and the University at Buffalo. It will create communities that foster growth by exempting businesses in and around SUNY campuses from income, sales, property, and business tax:

Tax-Free NY will entice companies to invest in Upstate New York by offering new businesses the opportunity to operate completely tax-free – including no income tax for employees, no sales, property or business tax – for a decade, while also partnering with the world-class higher education institutions in the SUNY system.

The guidelines and incentives are fully listed below:

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Commencement weekend at SUNYIT May 10-11

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RoAnn M. Destito, New York State COmmissioner of General Services

OGS Commissioner RoAnn Destito, SUNYIT commencement keynote speaker

SUNYIT’s 39th annual commencement will honor hundreds of graduates Saturday, May 11, starting at 10 a.m., in the Wildcat Field House.

About 700 candidates who became eligible for graduation from August 2012 through the end of the current academic year have been invited to take part in the annual ceremony. In addition to remarks by President Yeigh, graduates and guests will hear from RoAnn M. Destito, Commissioner of the New York State Office of General Services; she will deliver the keynote address. Also during the ceremony, students will present a class gift, and there will be other recognitions in addition to the awarding of degrees. A reception in the Student Center will follow the two-hour ceremony.

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SUNY Faculty Members Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

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Buffalo violinist with John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation sealThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation annually awards approximately 200 Fellowships from between 3 – 4,000 applications. The Fellowship awards, also deemed as “midcareer awards”, are for men and women with careers and abilities in the arts, sciences, and history.

Former Guggenheim Fellows become advisers who help narrow down the competition by sending their critiques to a Committee of Selection then onto the Board of Trustees. Winners from the United States and Canada competition were announced in early April.

We are proud to have 5 current Guggenheim Fellows within the SUNY family:

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Alumni Roundup: April 16, 2013

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See What SUNY Alumni are Accomplishing This Week!

The Power of SUNY

In addition to our regular Alumni Profile series, we hear about great things our graduates are doing around the country. Why not share them?

 

An endowment by SUNY Geneseo alumni Jack and Carol Kramer, both 1976 Geneseo graduates, made a keynote speech by a former New York Times science reporter at the school’s annual GREAT Day possible.

SUNY Oneonta alumnus and ESPN reporter Sal Paolatonio is set to deliver the school’s Class of 2013 Commencement Address.

SUNY Plattsburgh alumnus Chris Marchitelli, Vice President of Litepanels, Inc., donated $70,000 in lighting to help upgrade the Albert R. Montanaro Television Studios, home of the PSTV college TV station and a training ground for communication students.

Five SUNY Geneseo alumni artists are scheduled to perform this week during the Geneseo Dance Ensemble’s “Dancing Past to Present: Celebrating 45 Years.”

Rosemary Cardamone Crane, a SUNY Oswego alumna who has built a career in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, will join in recognizing more than 100 academic achievers at the college this week.

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SUNY Potsdam graduate Ryan Zeigler visited the college this past week to talk with current students about his work with NASA.

Click to watch video on YNNZeigler, who curates the Apollo moon samples, spoke with students about the importance of the missions in an event titled “What We Have Learned Since the Apollo Missions”.  He brought with him moon samples from the collection, some of which were billions of years old.

The Potsdam alumnus spoke to local news station YNN:

“We haven’t been there in about 40 years. Our understanding of the moon has evolved a lot since then, so I think going back to the moon would be a very important step as NASA goes out into the solar system to explore again,” Zeigler said.

Zeigler also noted to YNN that it is important to note humans’ technology abilities when we went to the moon.  For example, we hold in our hand today more computing power in smartphones and tablets than the entire NASA rocket was capable of when we were making trips to the moon.

SUNY has an extensive relationship through alumni, students, and joint projects with NASA.  Zeigler’s trip to the North Country last week was one of many outreach efforts that our supportive alumni embark on every day.