Rockland Community College will be holding three student orientation sessions in August. Incoming students and their families will take a campus tour, learn about academic programs and meet the school’s faculty and representatives of student clubs. They will also receive their identification cards, activate their e-mail accounts and purchase books. The orientation sessions will begin [...]

Students from Long Island University’s Rockland Graduate Campus organized a book drive and donated more than 300 books to Valley Cottage Elementary School’s library.

Book collection bins were placed in the lobby on campus through March and April. Campus administrators plan on expanding the drive next year.

“We originally planned to start small this year and make [...]

Here’s the list of winners for Rockland schools’ 2009 Science, Inventions and Technology Exhibition.
The East Ramapo, Nyack and the Rockland teachers’ centers are the main sponsors and organizers.

Winners list

The date of spring 2009 orientation at Rockland Community College was changed. It now will be held Wednesday, Jan. 21 from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m

Here’s the event breakdown:

5:15. p.m. – Students check in, Cultural Arts Center Atrium at the main campus (145 College Road in Ramapo)
5:30 p.m. – Welcome Address, Cultural Arts Theater. Campus tour [...]

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All South Orangetown schools will have early dismissal drills tomorrow, with dismissal times listed below:

Tappan Zee High School, 10:42 a.m.

South Orangetown Middle School, 10:42 a.m.

Early Childhood Program, 11:15 a.m.

William O. Schaefer, 11:15 a.m.

Tappan Zee Elementary, 12:15 p.m.

Cottage Lane Elementary, 12:15 p.m.

There will be no late buses or YMCA afterschool programming tomorrow. Athletic programs have been [...]

Three student teams from Rockland Community College and eight teams from local high schools competed this month in a business plan competition at RCC. Here are the winners:

North Rockland High School: Sitter in a Second
Students Nicole Esposito, Monica Callan, and Joseph Pane won $1,000 for their proposed business, Sitter in a Second, an online database [...]

Randi and I enjoyed the distinct opportunity of visiting Nancy Anton’s “Dimensions” class at Congers Elementary School a few weeks ago. The kids were putting together a school newspaper and wanted some tips on how the pros do it. I got to talk about the new school of journalism and all the gadgets I get [...]

Nyack College will be holding an electronic recycling day, open to the public, on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Accepted items will include mother boards and computer components, AC adapters, answering machines, caller ID boxes, cell phones, car phones, telephones, hard drives, CD burners, DVDs, VCRs, floppy drives, pagers, electronic game systems, [...]

Here’s an interview I did with Avy Skolnik of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, after his workshop on transgender issues at the CANDLE Conference.

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Rockland Community College announced receiving a $50,000 grant today to train 220 automotive technicians and mechanics around the Lower Hudson Valley.

The grant was given to the RCC Center for Personal & Professional Development from the State  University of New York Community College Workforce Development Training Grants Program.

Training will be given in three separate areas:

First, new [...]

The conference ended up getting flipped and keynote speaker, Walter Schneider, spoke at the end of the day.

Schneider is a psychologist, psychology professor, and VP and dean of student affairs at St. Thomas Aquinas College.

He talked about underage drinking and the Amethyst Initiative, a public statement signed by chancellors and presidents of universities and colleges [...]

Robyn Ochs, a Massachusetts author, held a workshop on biphobia and what it means to be bisexual. Robyn herself married her partner, Peg, in 2004, though doesn’t identify as a lesbian, but rather as being bisexual and queer. She’s travels all around the U.S. giving talks to youths and adults about sexual identity.

Her discussion of [...]

I’ll be blogging out of the 16th annual CANDLE Conference for Professionals who Work with Youth. CANDLE (Community Awareness Network for a Drug-free Life and Environment (that’s a mouthful)), a nonprofit that works on youth drug prevention and violence, will focus this conference on bullying—a theme of its past two conferences—as well as gender identity [...]

West Point held a grand opening ceremony today for its new $62 million, 150,000-square-foot, six-story library. But, enough about the numbers, here are a couple photos I took of the library last week. It’s a real beaut, but unfortunately not open to the general public.