Maria Rice and Thomas M. Bongiovi talk about several topics, including teacher achievement, student mental health, the elementary school reading program, and keeping the lines of communication open.
A “Raise the Roof” benefit concert to kick off the capital campaign to build the center will be held this Sunday, December 2 from 2 to 4 p.m.
A half dozen campus buildings bear the names of the town’s first settlers, who owned slaves. Nearly all the speakers at a recent hearing on campus called for the buildings to be renamed, but the administration is waiting until spring to vote.
Shows will be presented Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 8-10. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m.
“Admissions professionals don’t look for reasons to reject students; they look for reasons to accept students,” says Susan Weatherly of Steps to College. “My goal is to make it a positive experience… I want you to succeed, and that means you need to know what the expectations of the college are.”
While the new wing is barely visible from Main Street and completely hidden from South Manheim Boulevard, it’s not at all small.
New Paltz Middle School will educate more than 500 students this year in grades six through eight. At the helm as principal will be Ann Sheldon, formerly the school’s assistant principal. And while the new position will bring increased responsibilities, she says, Sheldon doesn’t anticipate her daily activities will change all that much.
“These buildings were named for the original Huguenot patentees who were the first European settlers in New Paltz,” wrote college president Donald Christian. “Like other Europeans who settled in New York and other mid-Atlantic states, they enslaved Africans. The campus building names have been contentious on campus for many years, and official action to review them was long overdue.”
If there’s one thing that SUNY New Paltz knows how to do well, it’s how to make an incoming student feel welcome.
New Paltz School District residents who feel that the swift replacement of the middle school principal represented a missed opportunity are, in the week of still more administrative openings, redoubling their efforts to inject transparency into the hiring process.