By GREGORY ZELLER // With the collegiate world focused this week on the Class of 2018, the New York Institute of Technology is taking a broader view – and opening its doors to pre-collegians interested in tomorrow’s tech. The NYIT Academy, a smorgasbord of career-oriented summer programs combining academic instruction and hands-on field experience, is coming to NYIT’s Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses. Open to students ages 15 to 20, the academy promises an “immersive…

By GREGORY ZELLER // Three years after opening its doors, the Hofstra/Northwell nursing school is promoting its first graduating class. Twenty-eight freshly minted nurse practitioners – each specializing in either adult-gerontology acute-care nursing, psychiatric/mental health nursing or family nursing – are set to receive their degrees Friday, marking the first graduates to emerge from the Hofstra/Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. The school, a joint venture of Hempstead-based Hofstra University and New…