General
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville has announced its plan to reopen campus this fall, after receiving approval from SUNY and meeting New York State Department of Health’s Reopening New York Higher Education Guidelines. Plans are subject to change due to new information, guidance and/or direction received from the State of New York and the Governor’s Office.
In the midst of so much upheaval, there is a great theme of progress.
On our own campus, we are undergoing a lot of physical transformation on the path to realizing our Facilities Master Plan. Facilities are being renovated, a new Alternative Fuels Building has broken ground and new landscaping is taking root after extensive repair, replacement and upgrades to our utilities infrastructure.
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Six SUNY Morrisville faculty and staff members were recently honored for their dedication and contributions to students, the campus and their community.
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Jamie Cyr, of Chittenango, is the new chief financial officer at SUNY Morrisville, beginning July 1.
Cyr comes to SUNY Morrisville with extensive experience in financial planning and forecasting and leading complex auxiliary services organizations in hospitality and higher education industries.
“Jamie has impressive skills,” said SUNY Morrisville President David Rogers. “His unique blend of auxiliary services, hospitality, budget, accounting and financial management experience will be an asset to carry out the mission of the college.”
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville has canceled its annual Fall Yearling Sale planned for Sunday, Sept. 20 at the college’s Nancy Sears Stowell Arena on Swamp Road in the town of Smithfield.
The decision to cancel the sale, which draws a crowd of potential buyers, sellers, trainers and owners from across the Northeast, is based on concerns with the public health threat of COVID-19, which forced the cancellation of all on-campus activities and moved faculty and staff to remote instruction last semester.
The events of the last several days in Minneapolis, Louisville, Atlanta and a growing number of cities across the country, all in the midst of a global pandemic, have once again laid bare the gross iniquities of our current systems. We have lost George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. They are not the first or the only ones. There is too much suffering and destruction. We must change.
NORWICH, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville’s Norwich Campus will celebrate its graduates during a drive-thru ceremony on Wednesday, May 27, from 1-2 p.m., in the campus parking lot on Conkey Ave.
Faculty and staff will be in full regalia, joined by bagpipers amid other pomp and circumstance.
“We are in a unique position to do this, since our students live locally,” said Lindsey Lefevre, director of the Norwich Campus. “After speaking with faculty, we felt it was important to recognize our students and their hard work.”
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Before she goes in for her night shift as a nurse, Kirsten Krause does a video chat with her four-year-old son, Nicholas. He runs around the house with the phone showing her his kittens and the puzzles he is working on at home. She tells him she loves him and will be home as soon as she is done helping people, fighting back tears as he blows her a kiss goodbye.
The daily calls keep her going.
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — An overwhelming response has expanded the second SUNY Morrisville and community dairy drive-thru, which will be held Friday, April 17, past the college’s Dairy Complex on Eaton Street (where it was held last week). The free dairy drive is 4-6 p.m. or until products are gone.
NORWICH, N.Y. — As concern over the shortage of personal protection equipment (PPE) for emergency personnel and health care workers continues nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic, SUNY Morrisville’s Norwich Campus is doing all it can to help locally.
They’re providing emergency agencies in the Chenango County with use of an on-campus ultraviolet (UV) sterilization cabinet that allows for protective equipment to be used more than once.