Campus News

Massachusetts educator and author Mary Cowhey will discuss critically interpreting state learning standards and developing curriculum that is authentic, culturally responsive, integrated and intellectually rigorous, on Wednesday, April 14.

The 28th Annual Admissions Open House, a one-day program allowing accepted freshmen, transfer applicants and prospective students to better acquaint themselves with the College, is expected to attract 2,000 visitors to campus on Saturday, April 10.

The Alumni Association at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., will present SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum with an Alumni Seal Award for Professional Achievement during the annual Alumni Weekend June 11-13 on the campus.

Gov. David Paterson appointed educator and former mayor Bruce R. Tytler M ’88, CAS ’05, of Cortland, N.Y., to the SUNY Cortland College Council on Jan. 12. The principal of Whitney Point (N.Y.) High School since August 2008, Tytler has been an educator for nearly three decades.

Three SUNY Cortland Economics Department faculty members, one of whom is also a local business leader, will interpret what made the Great Recession of 2007-10 the worst in U.S. history since the Great Depression, on Thursday, April 1, at SUNY Cortland.

When the renovations are completed to Studio West in Spring 2011, the facility and its new, two-story addition will be known as the Professional Studies Building, the President’s Cabinet decided at its March 15 meeting.

Philip H. Red Eagle, who has immersed himself in indigenous cultural renewal for nearly 25 years and in the canoe movement since 1993, will visit SUNY Cortland on Wednesday, March 31.

Li Jiansheng, one of China’s foremost ceramic artists and scholars, will discuss Chinese and American cultural similarities and differences that find common ground in the clay medium, on Wednesday, March 24, at SUNY Cortland.

The 12th annual Unity Celebration, featuring an hors d’oeuvres reception and activities to commemorate cultural diversity on the SUNY Cortland campus, has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 1. Please R.S.V.P. by Tuesday, March 24.

Robert Spitzer, a distinguished service professor and chair of the SUNY Cortland Political Science Department, will discuss the pending Supreme Court case of McDonald v. City of Chicago at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, at Main Street SUNY Cortland, 9 Main St.