The Plattsburgh State Academic Affairs division has secured its permanent salary cuts for fiscal year 2018-2019 as required by the college’s financial stability plan but still faces $650,000 to cut for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. In an email to the PSUC faculty sent out the last week of April, Interim...
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University police chief to retire after 32 years of service After 32 years with the New York State University Police and a challenging spring 2018 semester, Plattsburgh State University Police Chief Jerry Lottie will retire May 24. “This semester was a very difficult time. There’s no doubt...
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The Plattsburgh State Title IX Office hosted its Community Collaboration Workshops in Hawkins Hall last Saturday, intending to bring students and Plattsburgh-area residents together to learn about issues such as mental illness, domestic violence, diversity and sexuality. “It’s to raise awareness...
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When Shelby Klemann learned how many students were auditioning for the PSUC theater department’s production of Naomi Iizuka’s “Good Kids,” she jumped out of her seat and ran to talk with the show’s faculty director, Shawna Mefferd Kelty. “I was like, ‘please let me be the assistant director,’”...
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Tents, pop-up canopies, air mattresses and sofas covered the gym floor at the field house last Friday night as about 1,000 people gathered for PSUC’s 2018 Relay for Life to fight for a cure. Jaw cancer survivor and PSUC audio-radio production major Patricia Davenport cut the ribbon during the opening...
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In the midst of an $8.4 million structural budget deficit, Plattsburgh State’s Business Affairs division has revised its five-year financial stability plan released last September. The plan — which calls for $4.6 million in permanent salary reductions over the next five years — projects a $4.2...
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A former Plattsburgh State student’s racist January Snapchat post, the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and recent hateful propaganda distributed in the city of Plattsburgh have raised questions from some students about safety and emergency preparedness on campus. PSUC student Amaris...
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Members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America’s Plattsburgh chapter argued that U.S. imperialism and corporate interests have destabilized some foreign governments, and sparked the rise of right-wing factions in those countries, at their Diversity Week panel Wednesday night in Yokum 202. In...
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The cure for some skin cancers and genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anemia may be within reach due to the monumental discovery and development of the genetic manipulation technology CRISPR-CAS9. This technology holds the potential to knock such diseases out of the human genome forever, modifying...
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Dr. Kim Richard Nossal presented “On Pivots and Anchors: Canadian Policy in the Asian Pacific” at the Center for the Study of Canada on Friday, Feb. 9, as seven PSUC faculty listened and jotted notes. Nossal is the Center for the Study of Canada’s 2017-2018 Distinguished Fulbright Scholar, a program...
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