Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley joined the growing list of university presidents and administrators calling for the passage of the DREAM Act. In letters to Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C), President Stanley joins the presidents of…
In early April, a group of 30 census workers spent four days filling out official, constitutionally mandated census forms for the campus’ 9,000 residents.
Yet despite the massive undertaking, there was never any disclosure made to the students that the census was being filled out on their behalf.
Additional reporting by Katie Watt Facing yet another round of state budget cuts, Stony Brook University took the drastic step of announcing that by summer’s end, the Stony Brook Southampton campus would no longer operate as a semi-independent college,…
The Statesman, Stony Brook University’s oldest newspaper dating back to the Oyster Bay campus in the late 1950s, is facing the biggest cut in USG funding in it’s 53 year history. The Undergraduate Student Government budget for the 2010-2011 academic…
The new dorm will likely be named for Chen Ning Yang, a distinguished professor emeritus and a winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Graduate Student Employees Union at Stony Brook University earned a badge of honor last week, courtesy of Glenn Beck. On his nightly show, Beck devoted his 5pm hour to exploring the evils of a college education, using a new…
Days after staging protests on campus as part of the national March 4 Day of Action, a small group of students sat down in the hallway outside of President Stanley’s office and begged passersby for spare change to cover the rising costs of tuition.
Video from Stony Brook University’s March 4 Day of Action.
Barely six months into their tenures as heads of their respective institutions, Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley and State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher are on the verge of initiating the biggest fundamental shift in the way Stony Brook, and indeed all of SUNY, operates.