Campus News

SUNY Cortland, Tompkins Cortland community College and the City of Cortland will hold their Fall 2009 College-Community Forum at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Main Street SUNY Cortland, 9 Main St. Open to all members of the Cortland community, the forum begins at 7 p.m. and will conclude by 8:30 p.m.

SUNY Cortland kicks off its 2009-10 State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) campaign on Tuesday, Oct. 13, with an 11:30 a.m. luncheon for volunteers in the Corey Union Exhibition Lounge. The campaign, which relies upon state employee volunteers to canvas co-workers for donations, will continue until Monday, Nov. 2.

SUNY Cortland will celebrate the completion of major renovations on one of its residential facilities, Fitzgerald Hall, with a grand reopening ceremony and open house on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m. in the building lobby. The ceremony will feature guest speakers for the ribbon cutting followed by a reception and building tours.

Stephen Harris, a certified arborist who represents the company RPM Ecosystems, headquartered in Dryden, N.Y., will hold a seminar on “The Restoration Marketplace” on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at SUNY Cortland.

The internationally known philosopher and ethicist Robert Paul Churchill, who specializes in human rights, will discuss “Walls of Oppression: Why the Unjust Cannot Be Happy,” on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at SUNY Cortland.

Jason Clark '05 M.A., principal of Lake Street Elementary School in the Chittenango Central School District, and J.W. Gladstone, lecturer and writer, will discuss service-learning and address the methods best modeled when students work with their service communities at a lecture on Monday, Oct. 26.

SUNY Cortland’s Seven Valleys Writing Project (SVWP) will offer “Four Cups of Coffee,” a walking and writing workshop to be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, on the Commons in downtown Ithaca, N.Y. The event, from 9-11:30 a.m., is intended to inspire thoughts about writing creativity among the area’s school teachers and administrators.

An eight-member panel of SUNY Cortland alumni will discuss "BA in English ... Now What? Career Options for English Majors" from 6-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Lynn Parks '68 SUNY Cortland Alumni House on 29 Tompkins St. Free and open to the public, the event will be preceded by a 5:30-6 p.m. discussion of "Job Search/Grad School - Are You Ready?" that will be moderated by John Shirley, career services.

Broadway's diabolical musical thriller, "Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," will be presented by the Performing Arts Department for six performances at the Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre beginning Oct 23.

One hundred twenty education majors, all of whom have completed the first of two student teaching experiences, will participate in the biannual Educators in Training (EIT) Conference on Friday, Oct. 23, in Corey Union.