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Gov. Andrew Cuomo renamed the state university’s central administration building in Albany after recently retired SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall. In addition to the building renaming, Cuomo awarded McCall the Governor’s Medal of Public Service for his 50 years of public service during which time he served as chairman of […]
In her second State of the University Address, SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson unveiled her plans to enroll more full-time online students and hire more underrepresented faculty across the SUNY system. Beginning this fall, the SUNY system will begin enrolling more students in exclusively online degree programs. “We will rethink our […]
State University of New York Chancellor Kristina Johnson delivered her first State of the University System Address on January 22, sharing her vision to increase research, encourage more individualized education and reduce the system’s carbon footprint across 64 SUNY campuses within the next decade. “In my travels to the campuses, […]
New SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson spent her first day on the job getting acquainted with her surroundings. Like many of SUNY’s approximately 600,000 students, Johnson is settling into unfamiliar surroundings, between trips to Target to get the chancellor’s residence into comfortable shape and meeting with the SUNY executive advisory team, […]
The SUNY board of trustees on Monday appointed Dr. Kristina M. Johnson as the 13th chancellor of the State University of New York. Johnson — an engineer, business executive and former energy official under President Barack Obama — served as Dean of the School of Engineering at Duke University […]