Today, Dominican College kicked of its annual Founders’ Week, an event honoring the Dominican Order’s founding members and Dominican members who’ve made a significant change in the world. This year, Founders’ Week will highlight the life of Dominique Pire, an international relief worker and 1958 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

On Monday and Tuesday, as part of [...]

RAMAPO — Rockland Community College’s paralegal program will be holding an open house Thursday, Aug. 21. Student can sign up for classes and learn about the program, including internships and job opportunities. The program, taught by paralegals and attorneys, offers a post-degree certificate or an associate of applied science in paralegal studies. The open [...]

The Rockland Community College Foundation welcomed two new board members, Robert Schelin and Michel Vilson.

Schelin, left, has been a member of the college’s Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2008. He is a social sciences professor at St. Thomas Aquinas College, where he has worked since 1977. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from [...]

Rockland Community College will have two orientation programs for fall 2008 students. The programs will include a campus tour, overview on academic programs, meetings with faculty and administrators, and a fair of student clubs and organizations. Students will also receive their identification cards and activate their e-mail accounts and can purchase books. The orientations will [...]

In yesterday’s paper, we printed a sample math problem provided by Richard Neal, founder of the U.S. High School Mathematics Championship. Here it is:

A palindromic number is a number that reads the same forward and backward. How many non-negative palindromic numbers exist that are four digits or less? Note as for example that 010 would [...]

Gov. David Paterson appointed Nyack resident Mary Lou Dillon to a seven-year term on the Rockland Community College Board of Trustees, the college announced today.

Dillon said she was honored by the appointment and looked forward to “being part of the team that is restoring RCC to being the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Rockland County.” [...]

RAMAPO — Raymond K. Rossiter, a founding faculty member of Rockland Community College, passed away on June 15, the college announced. He was 85. Rossiter, born in China as the son of missionary parents, became RCC’s first student activity director and taught social sciences for 30 years. He retired in 1989 and became a professor [...]

The Clarkstown Education Foundation announced the recipients of its first $1,000 student scholarships and $500 teacher mini-grants, which were presented at last week’s school board meeting. The winners are:

Clarkstown High School North Student Scholarship Winners

1st Place Alexandra Atzl – $1,000
(Attending Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall)
2nd Place Laurie Stern – $1,000
(Attending Penn [...]

RAMAPO — More than $200,000 in scholarships for continuing and graduating students were announced at a Rockland Community College awards ceremony on May 21. The event, attended by more than 400 people, also featured musical selections from students in the College’s Performing Arts Department.

Doreen Zarcone, Assistant Director of Communications, SUNY Rockland Community College, presents the [...]

A student named Ricky Moson sent us a few photos of the Nyack High School prank yesterday. Why a few dudes were shirtless in one of these photos I can’t explain, but I won’t publish it! I’ll be happy to post any other non-shirtless photos of the prankster night or post them yourself on your [...]

RAMAPO — Richard L. Kohlhausen has been reappointed as a Rockland Community College trustee by Governor David Paterson. His five-year term will expire June 30, 2013.

Kohlhausen, from South Nyack, has served on the nine-member Board of Trustees over the past three years, taking over for a former trustee who moved out of the area.

He serves [...]

RAMAPO — A group of 15 students in Rockland Community College’s circuit analysis and AC theory classes developed simple electronical circuits they presented publicly on May 19.

The final projects were a first for these classes and were an opportunity for future engineers to work as a team to design and develop the circuits. The students [...]

It was past 11 p.m. at the East Ramapo district office last night and I was sitting around, like everyone else, waiting for the election results. Some people quietly chatted, a few others teamed up on the word jumble. By the time the votes were announced, the school board meeting room had filled with people [...]

In addition to Rockland Community College’s main graduation ceremony June 1, there will be a pinning ceremony for 45 nursing grads next week. The event will be at 6 p.m. May 20 in the Cultural Arts Theater on campus. Here’s what one soon-to-be grad had to say:

Rosemarie Ameo of Beacon, a cancer survivor and a [...]

With school board budget hearings starting up this week in Rockland, I wanted to comment on how ridiculous I find the timing of these meetings. I worked at a newspaper in Connecticut for the past two years, and in that state, budget hearings happened before the boards of education adopted their budgets. The school boards [...]