Campus News And Events
ACC Music Department Upcoming Events for December (Nov. 20, 2009) -
QUEENSBURY - The Adirondack Community College Music Department will present the following concerts in December.
All events are free and the public is invited.
FACULTY AT MIDDAY - MICAH SCOVILLE, CLASSICAL GUITAR
Wednesday, December 2 -- 12:45 p.m.
ACC Theater
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VOICE RECITAL - STUDENTS OF THERESA TREADWAY-LLOYD
Friday, December 4 -- 7:30 p.m.
ACC Theater
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SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT
Friday, December 11 – 7:30 p.m.
ACC Theater
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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE CONCERT
Tuesday, December 15 -- 7:30 p.m.
ACC Theater
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CHORUS CONCERT
Thursday, December 17 -- 7:30 p.m.
ACC Theater
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ATTENTION GRADUATING STUDENTS: January 2010 Graduation Deadline (Nov. 11, 2009) -
ATTENTION GRADUATING STUDENTS
The January 2010 degree application deadline is December 4, 2009. If you will be completing your degree requirements this fall and have not yet completed your degree application, now is the time to meet with your advisor, a member of the counseling staff, or to seek assistance through the Advisement Center in Warren Hall.
For Graduation Application instructions please go to http://www.sunyacc.edu/student_life/student_services/registrar/graduation_application.html.
Completed applications must be submitted to the Business Office by 4:00pm on December 4, 2009 with the $20 degree application fee.
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ACC Theatre Program Presents MUSEUM Nov. 19-22 (Nov. 09, 2009) -
QUEENSBURY - Adirondack Community College’s Theatre Program, in celebration with the Hyde Collection’s Degas and Music exhibit, will present “Museum,” a play by Tina Howe, November 19-22 in the ACC Theater on the Bay Road campus.
Curtain for the November 19, 20 and 21 performances is 7:30 p.m. Curtain for the November 22 matinee performance is 2:30 p.m.
General admission is $10. Tickets for senior citizens and non-ACC students are $6, and all ACC students, faculty and staff will be admitted free with ID. Members of the public with membership ID to any area museum, historical society or arts council receive $2 off the ticket price. Reservations are not required.
“Museum” takes place on the final day of a group show of three fictitious contemporary American artists at a major museum of modern art. In the course of the day, some forty people walk through the exhibit – art lovers, skeptics, foreigners, students, lost souls, fellow artists, and, of course, the museum guards.
The cast and crew of “Museum” are made up of both ACC students and members of the community.
ACC students include Mikaela Toleman of Gansevoort; A.J. Davidson and Kristen Spitzer of Glens Falls; Taylor Burke of Greenwich; Kate Bartow of Hadley; Kelsey Silburn and Justin Taylor of Lake Luzerne; Jake Navatka and Matt Phillips of Queensbury; Debbie Schoonmaker of Schaghticoke; Kristine Messing of Schroon Lake; and David Huff of South Glens Falls.
Community members include Tim Hanlon of Clifton Park; Lynn Powell of Glens Falls; John Gable of Lake George; Kate LeBoeuf, Sarah Orr, Patricia Smith and Nancy Vonic of Queensbury; and Matt DeMarco of Saratoga Springs.
Michael Hewitt of Hudson Falls serves as technical director; Darrell Perkins of Washington, D.C., serves as lighting and sound designer; and William H. Howard of Queensbury is the costume designer.
Melissa Maiorella of Saratoga Springs will serve as stage manager.
The play is directed by guest artist Filomena Riviello.
For ticket information, call 743-2200, extension 2475. No reservations are required.
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ACC Priority Registration Information for 2010 Winter Session/2010 Spring Session/2010 Summer Sessions (Nov. 04, 2009) -
Priority Registration Information
Priority Registration will be open for the Winter, Spring, and Summer semesters. Students can priority register based on the number of credits they have earned. Registration begins at 8am on the following dates:
November 16 45+ earned credits
November 17 30+ earned credits
November 18 20+ earned credits
November 19 10+ earned credits
November 20 0+ earned credits
You may register through the Registrar’s Office weekdays between the hours of 8am-4pm or online using Banner Self-Service.
Open Registration will begin at 8am on November 23, 2009.
ACC Capital Campaign faces greatest challenge (Oct. 09, 2009) - ACC Capital Campaign faces greatest challenge
QUEENSBURY, NY – Adirondack Community College’s dilemma: raise $130,000 by December 1 or lose $350,000.
ACC’s solution: a $100,000 challenge gift from philanthropist and ACC alumnus J. Buckley Bryan, Jr.
In late September, ACC Capital Campaign Chair Thomas J. Ross told the college that it still had $130,000 left to raise for the J. Buckley Bryan, Jr. ACC ’87, ’94 Regional Higher Education Center.
Ross was blunt. If ACC did not raise the entire $2.5 million Capital Campaign by December 1, Detroit’s Kresge Foundation would not award ACC an additional $350,000 Challenge Grant.
Bryan, who has already committed $1.5 million to the effort, told Ross he would not allow the college to lose the Kresge grant.
In an extraordinary gesture, Bryan issued a challenge to the community: he would match every additional dollar donated to the Capital Campaign for the Regional Higher Education Center, up to $100,000.
Bryan, a successful entrepreneur, said the logic was easy. Essentially, every dollar that is donated is equal to a $5.50 donation: the initial $1 donation, $1 from Bryan, and $3.50 from the Kresge Foundation. “The return on investment was huge,” he said. “I am so excited about this, I can’t tell you,” Bryan said. “We are so close to the final moments, I can feel it. Once we complete this thing, we’ll have a party the likes of which will not be seen around here for a long, long time.”
Ross said that Bryan had stepped up to the plate with a challenge and asked the community to respond.
Bryan’s heart has been with ACC for decades. He had earned two degrees from ACC – a business degree in 1987 and a psychology degree in 1994 – and, in addition, earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from SUNY Plattsburgh on the ACC campus.
Just as Bryan did, students today can also take their Associate degrees at ACC, then stay on campus for upper level degrees offered in the new Regional Higher Education Center by SUNY Plattsburgh, Empire State College and Paul Smith’s College.
Donations can be mailed to:
The Buck Bryan Challenge
Adirondack Community College Foundation
640 Bay Road
Queensbury, NY 12804
For more information, please contact Joseph Cutshall-King, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, at 743-2243.
ACC Criminal Justice Club Collects Food for ASPCA (Nov. 17, 2009) -
QUEENSBURY – Adirondack Community College’s Criminal Justice Club spent two weeks this semester collecting animal food donations and raising money in support of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
Club members coordinated a two-day bake sale and a two-day raffle, raising more than $300 for the cause. In addition, collection boxes for animal and pet food were placed at strategic locations across campus. More than 75 boxes, bags or containers of dog and cat food were collected.
Rachel Adams, a criminal justice major, was singled out for her dedication to the cause. She spearheaded the initiative and spent many hours toward making the event a success.
Beneficiaries of the Club’s effort include Adirondack Save A Stray Animal Shelter in Corinth; the Ballston Spa Animal Shelter; the Office of the Town of Queensbury Animal Control Officer; and the ASPCA.
This is just one example of the variety of activities and services that the Criminal Justice Club at ACC is involved in. Any student interested in more information about the Criminal Justice Program or the Criminal Justice Club at ACC can contact criminal justice professors Peter Girard (743-2200, ext. 345) or Michael Carpenter (743-2221).
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EXPEDITION: Photographs Prints Drawings Books at ACC Gallery Through Dec. 23 (Nov. 12, 2009) -
QUEENSBURY, NY – Adirondack Community College’s Visual Arts Gallery will host “EXPEDITION: Photographs Prints Drawings Books,” an exhibition of work by SUNY Plattsburgh studio art faculty members Diane Fine and Sue Lezon, from Nov. 16 through Dec 23.
A reception for the artists will be held Thursday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. in the Gallery. The public is invited.
Fine and Lezon have joined together to present an exhibition of a wide spectrum of their creative art, from books to photographs, from drawings to prints. They have been colleagues for over 15 years at SUNY Plattsburgh. Their common statement indicates that their professional relationship benefits from their shared friendship: “We are pleased to present our work together for the first time. Though our mediums are different, all of the pieces in this show have been informed by our separate expeditions to far away places.”
Diane Fine works primarily in two related media: printmaking and the book arts. She is inspired by printmaking techniques that enable her to create many and varied kinds of surfaces and marks.
The fact of multiple in printmaking is important to Fine as it enables her to share her work more widely and in varied contexts. Collaboration with fellow artists, part of the tradition of printmaking and the book arts, has been an essential part of her learning process and production.
Sue Lezon has been fascinated with the monumental, fragmentary remains of ancient Egypt for over 30 years. These traces of the past refer to history, sacred spaces and icons, and the deep mystery of civilizations that have gone before us. She has commented: “There is so much that we do not know about our predecessors, but there is an undeniable link between the distant past and today.”
In her 1991 book Refuge, author Terry Tempest Williams eloquently expresses what Lezon feels is the heart and soul of the work that she has on exhibition: “Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human, that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty, to be reso0urceful, to be attentive to the world we live in…they court the mysteries of private lives, communal lives, and lives rooted in ritual and ceremony.”
Diane Fine is currently Professor of Art at Plattsburgh State University of New York where she teaches printmaking and book arts. She received her BFA from Syracuse University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She exhibits regularly and her work is represented in a number of public and private collections including: The New York Public Library, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum Library, St. Lawrence University, and the Hallmark Corporation.
Susan Lezon is Assistant Professor of Art at Plattsburgh State University of New York where she teaches a variety of photography courses. She received her BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA where she concentrated on Photography. She received her MFA from University of Massachusetts/Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with work in photography. Recent exhibitions include: World in Focus at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, “…that you may behold the moon…” a solo exhibition held at University of Memphis Art Museum, Chicago House Gallery in Luxor, Egypt, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar.
The Visual Arts Gallery at ACC is pleased to have these two wonderful artists at our college. Their art and their sensitivity to communicating their vision is most welcome for all in our community.
The Visual Arts Gallery exhibition and events are free and open to the public. The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 10 am—3 pm; Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, 5:30—7:30pm; or by appointment by calling the gallery director, Dr. Sheldon Hurst, at 832-7738.
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FREE Music at Midday Concerts at ACC (Oct. 19, 2009) -
QUEENSBURY – Adirondack Community College will host Music at Midday concerts Friday, October 23, and Wednesday, December 2, in the ACC Theater.
The concerts are free and the public is invited.
On October 23, Karen Becker, a member of the music faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh, will accompany the Hyperion String Quartet on piano in a 12:45 p.m. concert. Works by Beethoven and Schumann will be performed.
On December 2, Micah Scoville, a classicial guitarist and member of ACC’s music faculty, will perform works by Bach, Barrios, Legnani, Towner and York. The concert begins at 12:45 p.m.
For more information on these events, please contact Diane Bargiel, Director of Music, at 743-2200, ext. 2468 or via email at bargield@sunyacc.
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ACC English Professor to Speak at National, State English Conventions (Oct. 13, 2009) -
QUEENSBURY – Jane Arnold of Queensbury, associate professor of English and reading specialist at Adirondack Community College, will speak at two English education conventions this fall.
On October 23, she will give a presentation on “Connecting and Communicating: Networking Across the High School-College Divide” at the New York State English Council convention in Albany.
In November, she will be presenting at the annual National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention in Philadelphia.
The NCTE convention, “Once and Future Classics: Reading Between the Lines,” will be held Nov. 19-22.
Arnold will be presenting during the Nov. 22 panel discussion, “Connecting and Communicating: Professional Networking.” The panel will provide strategies and opportunities to connect, communicate, and network.
The subject of her presentation will be the annual English symposium for high school and college English faculty held at ACC each fall. This year’s symposium is scheduled for Nov. 2.
Arnold joined ACC in 2005. She holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School and is certified to teach specific reading disability techniques.
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ACC Professor to Speak on Lyme Disease at Saratoga Library Dec. 2 (Nov. 20, 2009) -
QUEENSBURY – Holly Ahern, an associate professor of microbiology at Adirondack Community College, will speak on the treatment of Lyme disease with the use of a Rife machine on Wed., Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Susman Room at the Saratoga Springs Public Library, 29 Henry Street, Saratoga Springs.
The lecture is being sponsored by the Adirondack Lyme Disease Foundation and is part of the Foundation’s regular monthly Lyme disease support group meeting.
The event is free and the public is invited.
Ahern will discuss the use of a Rife machine as a treatment for Lyme disease, from the perspective of its invention as a microscope in the 1930s and the subsequent discovery by American inventor Royal Rife that he could kill bacteria with it. Rife died in 1971.
The Rife machine has been sold and marketed as a potential cure for cancer and AIDS, and claims that the machine has been successful in those efforts have fueled fierce debate.
According to its web site, the Adirondack Lyme Disease Foundation was founded to raise awareness and educate the public about the dangers of tick-borne illnesses, focusing on education, political action, and community support.
For more information on this event, please contact ACC’s Office of Marketing and Community Relations at 743-2230.
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