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Dean’s list honors 804 Alfred State students

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The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence is a distinguished award for SUNY student leaders (2 nominees). We are requesting that if you have or know of an excellent student leader who meets the following criteria, please respond to Deena Smith (smithdl1@alfredstate.edu) with that student’s name and we will follow-up with them to acquire the needed information.

Criteria:

1. A senior / in their last year (must graduate between June 2024 and May 2025)
2. Exceptional academic performance (3.0 or above)
3. Strong examples in at least three of the following areas:
4. Academic Excellence
5. Leadership
6. Diversity, Equity, inclusion & justice
7. Campus Involvement
8. Civics and Service
9. Research & Development
10. Creative or Performing Arts

Nominators must identify the student to us (smithdl1@alfredstate.edu) and we will do the rest!

We need the student leaders to fill out their nomination forms and forward them to us by Friday, January 24th, 2025. 

As of Friday, January 10, 2025, John Williams will be retiring as Dean for the School of Architecture, Management, and Engineering Technology. We appreciate all John did for Alfred State as both a faculty member and in his role as Dean, and wish him all the best in retirement.  

Our Interim Dean, Dr. Faris Malhas, will be joining us on Monday, January 13, 2025 and comes to us from The Registry. Dr. Malhas has an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering and graduate degrees in Structural Mechanics & Engineering. He has served as both a faculty member and Dean at numerous institutions both in the US and abroad.  

We look forward to welcoming Dr. Malhas to our campus community for the semester.  

Please be advised that the U.S. Postal Service is closing all post office locations and suspending regular mail delivery today for former President Jimmy Carter’s national day of mourning. Inter-campus mail delivery and pickup will continue as normal but there will be no incoming/outgoing USPS mail that day. If you have any questions or concerns, please call the mailroom at ext. 3520.

Our Community Needs Hub has received approval to move from our Peet Hall location to the ground floor of Braddon Hall, that means less stairs y'all!!! We are grateful for the opportunity to set up a more permanent home on the ground floor of Braddon Hall and will have the thrift store closed over break while we transform it into our new home. That said, we will continue to offer food pantry request support throughout the break!

• Our staff are available to fill requests Monday-Thursday. If any student is in need of nonperishables food or hygiene items they can submit a Food Pantry Request form and we will email them once the request has been filled to coordinate a pick-up location. 

The Center for Civic Leadership wishes everyone a restorative winter break and a happy new year!

College Council’s Leadership Through Civic Engagement Award

Please consider nominating a student, faculty, or staff member that has been a civic engagement leader in some capacity over the past two years before the January 30th deadline! This is a great way to celebrate our faculty, staff, and students for being civic champions. 

• Who:  Anyone may nominate a student or faculty/staff member.  Faculty/staff service would need to be within the past two years 
• Description:  College Council recognize members of the Alfred State community annually for leadership in civic engagement.  Background, instructions, and application found here (link here). 
• How to Nominate:  Use the online application
• Recognition:  College Council selects up to 2 faculty/staff and unlimited # of deserving student awardees. Student awardees are recognized at Honors Convocation while faculty/staff awardees are recognized at the Reward & Recognition Luncheon. 
• Due Date:  January 30 for nominations

Admissions is excited to announce we are hosting Admitted Student Day events on campus on the dates below. We are looking forward to celebrating with our future Pioneers!

·                Saturday, February 8 - General Program: All Majors (Modified Saturday Program)

·                Monday, March 3 - General Program: All Majors

·          Wednesday, March 19 - School of Applied Technology

·                Wednesday, April 2 - SAS

·                Tuesday, April 8 - SAMET

·                Tuesday, April 22 - General Program: All Majors

·                Wednesday, April 30 - General Program: All Majors

If you have any questions please contact Christina Rawady at rawadyc@alfredstate.edu 

The Office of Human Resources has worked to resolve the system issue that was previously identified in BizLibrary. At this time we believe that all employee trainings prior to the reset have been updated if you log into the system and notice that your previously completed trainings are showing as incomplete, email hr@alfredstate.edu.  

Please note that if you completed your trainings prior to Tuesday, December 10th, it is possible that courses completed in previous cycles were marked as complete this year. That issue has been corrected and all assigned trainings need to be completed this year. 

Trainings completed after the 10th were not impacted. 

We thank you for your patience and understanding as we worked to check and correct the completion records of all employees. 

“Celebrate 2025 with Benefits!”  UUP’s Know Your Negotiated Benefits webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 12:00pm.

Learn all about UUP’s extensive benefits package and other discounted services. 

Please use the link to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-6I9eU3HQ-UiYNqKaw_1to60aTJweva6VRtfmEuWk6M1TLg/viewform