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Registration Information (Apr. 02, 2008) - Priority Registration will take place both online through Banner and in-person at the Registrar’s Office. Priority will be given to students by accumulated credits (not including the current semester):
o 4/7 – 45+
o 4/8 – 30+
o 4/9 – 20+
o 4/10 – 10+
o 4/11 – 0+
Open Registration for students not currently enrolled at the college will begin on April 21st.
Please note that online registration will run from 8am-midnight seven days a week until 9/2/08. In-person registration will be available from 8am-4pm Monday-Friday until 9/9/08.
ACC to Host 46th Annual Spring Commencement Ceremony May 15; ACC Faculty Member Jeffrey Peck to Give Commencement Address (May 06, 2008) -
QUEENSBURY - Adirondack Community College will host its 46th annual spring commencement ceremony to honor students receiving diplomas in the College’s various degree and certificate programs on Thursday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at the Glens Falls Civic Center.
The public is cordially invited.
Also, 47 students from SUNY Plattsburgh’s bachelors and masters programs at ACC will receive degrees.
Janet Nickerson of Wevertown and Dexter Baker of Athol will give the student addresses. Nickerson, an ACC alumnus, earned a bachelors degree in psychology through SUNY Plattsburgh. Baker will earn an associate’s degree in criminal justice - police science from ACC and will attend SUNY Plattsburgh in the fall.
Commencement speaker will be Jeffrey Peck, professor of political science at ACC who is retiring at the end of the current academic year after 25 years of service to the College.
Members of the ACC graduating class will be presented by Dr. Ronald C. Heacock, president of ACC; Dr. Paul Mazur, vice president for academic and student affairs; and Dr. W. Sheldon Hurst, interim dean for academic affairs.
Members of the SUNY Plattsburgh graduating class will be presented by Dr. John Ettling, president of SUNY Plattsburgh; Dr. Robert E. Golden, provost and vice president for academic affairs; Dr. David Hill, dean of education, health and human services; Dr. Kathleen Lavoie, deans of arts and sciences; Dr. Colin Read, dean of the School of Business and Economics; Dr. Stephen Light, associate dean of arts and science; and Thomas Corigliano, director of the ACC branch campus.
Commencement marshals will be Annina Carter, associate professor of chemistry, and A. Nicholas Buttino, professor of business. The ACC Chorale, conducted by Miriam Enman, will perform. The processional and recessional will be led by members of the Adirondack Pipes & Drums.
A reception for the graduates and their families will be hosted by ACC on the floor of the Glens Falls Civic Center following the ceremony.
Peck earned masters degrees from the College of St. Rose, The University at Albany, and Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, and a bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University.
In addition to his teaching career at ACC, Peck served as the school’s registrar from 1986 to 1991. He is the only ACC staff member to have been recognized twice by the SUNY Chancellor’s Office for service to ACC: He was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service in 1988 and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001.
In January, Peck co-authored “The American Presidency: The Election of 2008,” published by the Instituut vorr Publiek and Politiek in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He and his co-author will be working on two additional books, one on citizenship this year and a larger work on American elections in 2012. He is an American correspondent for Maatschappi and Politiek, a journal on politics published in the Netherlands.
Peck resides in Greenwich.
For more information on commencement, please call F. Jeanne
High School Business Day Returns to ACC May 12 (May 06, 2008) - QUEENSBURY - Nearly 500 area high school business students representing 18 school districts will demonstrate their business skills and knowledge at the 15th annual High School Business Day at Adirondack Community College on Monday, May 12.
The event will be held on the ACC campus from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The event is co-sponsored by the ACC Business Division and Adirondack Business Educators, a consortium of high school business teachers with ACC’s service area.
Students are required to complete tasks related to business principles, applications, presentation, and professionalism during structured competitions. Tests will be given in such subject areas as marketing, accounting, economics, finance, business law, computer literacy, computer networking, and career management.
Displays and timed tasks are judged by members of the business and education community.
Numerous business leaders, educators and community members will be on hand to share “best practice” tips and strategies.
In addition, the ACC Technology Division is sponsoring the inaugural Cisco Academy Competition event featuring the Cisco NOW Van. The van will be parked outside the Scoville Learning Center on the ACC campus from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cisco staff will be available to give presentations on Cisco technologies. The public is invited to view these half-hour presentations.
For more information on the Cisco NOW Van presentations, or to reserve a seat for the presentations, please call Karen Woodard, assistant professor of computer networking, at 743-2216.
The ACC High School Business Day strives to connect what students learn in school to what they will experience as business professionals. Keeping with the recent international concern and discussion on the effects of global warming and climate change, the theme of this year’s event is “Business in the Future - Going Green.”
Students from ACC’s Adirondack Broadcast Association, under the supervision of radio/television professor Kevin Ankeny, will provide music for the event.
The High School Business Day is being organized by Daina Rossi and Jim Woodard of South Glens Falls Central School and Debbie Taylor of Fort Ann Central School.
For more information, please call Nick Buttino, ACC professor of business, at 743-2200, ext. 2649.
ACC Criminal Justice Students Take Field Trip to Nation’s Capitol for Comparative Policing course (Apr. 29, 2008) -
QUEENSBURY - A group of criminal justice students from Adirondack Community College visited Washington, D.C. during the College’s Spring Break week in March as part of the course requirements for a comparative policing course, experiencing first-hand the differences and similarities between urban and rural policing.
The itinerary for the four-day stay included a visit to the D.C. Police Department’s Emergency Response Team’s training facility, a tour of the U.S. Supreme Court Building, a meeting with a federal prosecutor from the United States Attorney General’s Office, and a meeting with an investigator who teaches crime scene investigation at the D.C. Police Academy.
Highlights included two nights of ride-alongs with officers from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. ACC students were involved in arrest situations, search and seizure incidents, processing crime scene evidence, and high-speed responses.
The comparative policing class is part of ACC’s Criminal Justice / Police Science associate degree program.
For more information on ACC’s Criminal Justice Program, please call Criminal Justice faculty members Peter Girard at 743- 2300, ext. 2345 or Michael Carpenter at 743-2221.
ACC to Host Open House at Wilton Center May 13 (Apr. 24, 2008) - QUEENSBURY - Adirondack Community College’s Office of Enrollment Management will host an open house at ACC’s Wilton Center on Tuesday, May 13, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Wilton Center, McGregor Village Plaza, Building # 6, 6 Mountain Ledge Drive, Wilton.
The open house is open to the general public and is designed for first-time students, returning adult students looking to re-enter the workforce or seeking re-training, and those looking to transfer to four-year colleges. There is no admission charge, but an RSVP to ACC’s Office of Enrollment Management at 743-2264 is recommended.
Faculty and staff will be available to answer questions regarding admissions and financial aid, academic majors and course offerings, career and transfer opportunities, and student activities and support services.
Students are welcome and encouraged to sign up for summer and fall classes.
An informal barbecue will be available for those attending.
For more information or to RSVP, please call the Office of Enrollment Management at 743-2264.
Registration Begins May 5 for ACC’s 2008 Summer Enrichment Program (Apr. 16, 2008) - QUEENSBURY - Registration gets under way Monday, May 5, for the popular Summer Enrichment Program offered by the ACC Center for Personal and Professional Development.
Summer Enrichment Program courses and activities will be offered at ACC’s main campus in Queensbury for children who have completed grades three through nine.
The Queensbury program will run Mondays through Thursdays for three weeks from Monday, July 7 through Thursday, July 24.
Daily registration will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in the ACC Center for Personal and Professional Development in Washington Hall starting Monday, May 5, through Friday, June 20.
Mail-in registration must be postmarked no earlier than Monday, May 5. Registrations will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Registration by fax is available to anyone who wants to have tuition and fees charged on Discover Card, MasterCard or VISA. Telephone registrations will not be accepted.
Among the courses offered for grades 3-5 are Blooming Botanists, Sea Creatures and Sea Monsters, Time Warp, The da Vinci Perspective: Drawing and Painting Nature, Fun With Printmaking, An Extraordinary Science Adventure, Gliders: You Build ‘Em, You Fly ‘Em, Around the World in 12 Days, and Introduction to Robotics with LEGOS.
Students in grades 6-9 can choose from among Forensic Science, Oil Painting: Techniques of the Masters, Extreme Science, Creating with Stained Glass, Next Stage: Rehearsal and Performance of a One-Act Play, Model Airplane Building, Dog Fun 101, Vive Le Francais, Part Deux, and Let’s Make Sculptures.
A student can enroll if he or she has an overall “B” average or higher OR scores in the 90th percentile on any state or national standardized test. The student application must also be verified by the school he or she currently attends. However, children who have attended the Summer Enrichment Program in either of the last two years DO NOT have to submit the School Principal/Teacher Certification Form.
The ACC Center is also looking for qualified 10th and 11th graders to serve as Summer Enrichment Program faculty assistants.
Selected students will be given the opportunity to work as assistants in an area in which they excel. It will be necessary for the applying students to have recommendations from their home school counselor and a faculty member from their home school in the area the student wishes to work. Hours may vary, and there is no stipend.
This is a meaningful chance for those students who are looking for community service options to include on college and scholarship applications. This also provides an opportunity for 10th and 11th graders to expand their knowledge in a given subject area.
Summer Enrichment class description brochures have been mailed to area schools. Please contact your child’s school or call the ACC Center at 743-2238 for a copy of the brochure.
For information and applications for the faculty assistant program, please call the ACC Center at 743-2238.
Information can also be obtained by visiting the College’s web site at www.sunyacc.edu/acc_center.
ACC to Offer Archaeology Field School at Fort Edward Again This Summer (Jan. 11, 2008) - QUEENSBURY - Adirondack Community College will once again offer students the opportunity to uncover more history this summer at Fort Edward, which was used as a main base of encampment by the British throughout the French and Indian War.
ACC will host an Archaeology Field School from July 7 through August 15 at Fort Edward, NY. The dig will be supervised by Dr. David Starbuck, who has extensive experience in excavating military sites of the 18th century.
Two-week sessions of three credits each are being offered, and students may take a maximum of six credits. Classes will meet at Fort Edward from July 7 through July 18, July 21 through August 1, and August 4 through August 15.
Tuition for New York state residents is $131 per credit hour. Tuition for out-of-state residents is $262 per credit hour.
Construction on Fort Edward began in 1755, at which time it was one of the first well-made British forts in North America. By the late 1750s, it was the centerpiece of a complex of huts, barracks and hospitals occupied by 16,000 British and Provincial soldiers including the famous Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers.
Adirondack Community College has conducted excavations in Fort Edward since 1991.
Excavations in 2008 will continue work in the sutlers’ (merchants’) area of the encampment on the east bank of the Hudson River, and students will also search for earlier British settlements that flanked the Hudson River in the 1730s.
Photographs chronicling the previous digs and artifacts recovered at that time are on display at the Rogers Island Visitors Center in Fort Edward.
For more information, please call ACC’s Office of the Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at 743-2236.
