A century later, new life for old FSC power plant
More than a century since it was built and years since it’s been anything more than a memory, a vintage Farmingdale State College structure is about to be reborn. College…
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Salary workshops open students to negotiation
By GREGORY ZELLER // Heads up, campus-to-corporate recruiters: An innovative workshop will prepare NYIT students to better negotiate their starting salaries and benefits. The New York Institute of Technology has…
Three Island schools crack Money’s ‘Best’ ranks
Three Long Island institutions of higher learning are among the nation’s best bangs for your educational buck, according to a popular annual ranking. Applying 27 data points to 2,400 U.S. colleges…
Donors to minority students: Put that in your Pipeline
By GREGORY ZELLER // High-achieving high schoolers will enjoy another season of study at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, thanks to multiple donors. A legion of charitable groups has…
Billionaire machinist Haas backs FSC manufacturing
By GREGORY ZELLER // An educational foundation dedicated to fostering the next generation of Computerized Numerical Control-trained machinists has boosted Farmingdale State College, once again. The Gene Haas Foundation has…
Sanford’s $5M gift ignites LIU entrepreneurship
BY GREGORY ZELLER // A $5 million grant from a distinguished philanthropist has Long Island University riding high atop the regional innovation wave. With a boost from celebrated entrepreneur T….
In Altice, LI robotics tourney lands a major backer
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you’re looking for an innovative backer for your robotics competition, you can do worse than the country’s fourth-largest cable operator. And that’s just what School-Business…
FSC: How to (safely) earn a commercial drone license
By GREGORY ZELLER // As the nation’s skies clog with Unmanned Aerial Systems, the Federal Aviation Administration is ratcheting up its licensing protocols – and Farmingdale State College is ready…
Schools mark first joint-admissions nursing class
Two collaborating regional medical programs will soon churn out more nurses, with students going in one school and coming out another. The Stony Brook University School of Nursing and Suffolk County…
For MindYolk and WDI, a true teaching moment
By GREGORY ZELLER // A multidimensional Long Island maker is rewriting the textbook on how to educate tomorrow’s manufacturing workforce – kinda literally, sorta. Paul Lipsky, CEO of Plainview-based MindYolk…
LI districts score big in $44M Smart Schools round
Roughly $13 million in technology upgrades are coming to 11 Long Island school districts through the state’s $2 billion Smart Schools program – including the two largest individual awards doled…
New Westbury connections key for STEAM startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // A STEAM-powered nonprofit determined to help educate the next generation of scientists and engineers is going where the action is. We Connect the Dots Inc. will…
Sanders salutes Cuomo’s $163M free-tuition plan
Middle-class families will send their kids to New York City and State public colleges tuition-free, if Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets his way. Flanked by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont), who…
Dates set for Dowling College auction
Dowling’s Oakdale campus goes under the gavel in March as a bankruptcy court moves to liquidate the real estate holdings of the failed school, which crumbled under $54 million in…
LIREDC takes victory lap around Adelphi’s Nexus
The Long Island Regional Development Council brought home “only” $62 million in state economic-development funds in the 2016 REDC competition, but it can lick its wounds while watching its six-year,…