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Past Events

2024

October

Gentrification in Newburgh: SUNY New Paltz will welcome John Jay College professor Richard E. Ocejo for book discussion, Oct. 17

2020

December

Gaining Voice

November

One Book, One New Paltz

June

In Conversation with NYS Senator Jen Metzger

SUNY New Paltz to give Gerald Benjamin virtual retirement party

 


 

2019

November

Parking: Cars in Communities

One Book, One New Paltz

October

In Conversation With Congressman Antonio Delgado

September

Hudson Valley Housing: The Impact of Short-Term Rentals & The Prospect of Rent Regulation

May

Volunteer Recruitment and Retention in the Fire Service

April

Extremist Violence: Do U.S. Government Actions Make it Worse?

February

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

2018

November

Recovering Community Equity: Understanding Poughkeepsie’s Tax Lien System and Opportunities for Land Banking

Mapping Police Violence: Samuel Sinyangwe

October

Hudson Valley Green Building Expo

League of Women Voters: Ulster County Redistricting Commssion Ballot Initiative Panel Discussion

May

NY Congressional District 19: Meet the Candidates

Hudson Rover Environmental Society Annual Meeting: Contaminants in the Hudson River and Watershed

April

4th Annual Wallkill River Summit

UlsterCorps Service Summit

March

Gary King Lecture: Voting Behavior and Punitive Policies: Ariel White

January

Our Drinking Water Challenges: Infrastructure, Local Water, and Protecting Open Space

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2017

October

Yes or No? A New York State Constitutional Convention

September

The Hunt For Balance: Deer Management and Ethics

April

UlsterCorps Service Summit

Women in Politics: A Conference Commemorating the Centennial of Woemn's Suffrage in New York State


2016

October

National Park Service Centennial: Landscape Conservation in the Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley Green Building Expo

April

New York State Defenders Association Veterans Defense Program

UlsterCorps Service Summit

March

Hudson Valley Regional Council Stormwater Workshop

Agenda for A 2020 Vision for Public Education in Ulster County


 2015

October

Hudson Valley Green Building Expo

September

Benjamin Center Inauguration

Dams Restoration Seminar

April

Future of the Wallkill

UlsterCorps Service Summit


2014

December

HV Estuary Program Dams Restoration Seminar

October

Hudson Valley Green Building Expo

League of Women Voters: Prop 1 Redistricting Debate

New York League of Conservation Voters 19th Congressional District Cadidate Forum on Sustainability

September

1664 New Netherlands Conference

New Paltz Zero Waste Plan Unveiled


 2013

November

A 2020 Vision for Public Education in Ulster County

October

A New New York: The Constitutional Dimension, Baruch

September

A New New York: The Constitutional Dimension, SUNY Cortland

 June

 EPA Region 9 Leadership Workshops for Local Water Systems

UlsterCorps Service Summit

May

NYS Comptroller: Leading the Way: Changing Course to Avoid Your Own Fiscal Cliff

2013 Hudson River Science Symposium: "The State of Hudson River Science"

March

Mid Hudson Agriculture: Growing our Economy and our Communities


 2012

October

A New New York: The Constitutional Dimension, Rockefeller Institute of Government & Albany Law School

July

Mid-Hudson Sustainability Meeting

June

Is There a Hudson Valley Regional Agenda?

January

Race to the Top: Costs and Consequences


2011

November

Solid Waste Management Past and Future

October

One Book One New Paltz:  War Dances by Sherman Alexie

The Tax Cap Challenge

September

Ten Years On…Reflections on 9/11.

The Fifth Annual Dennis O’Keefe Memorial Lecture: “College and Community in New Paltz and America”.

May

Lecture: President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, William Dudley

March

An Evening With The Fellows: Financing Smart & Sustainable Place-Making

Judicial Conference at SUNY New Paltz:  "Justice and Our Justice Courts in Ulster County"

April

Second Annual UlsterCorp Service Summit

Financing Education through Income Taxes? with Assemblyman Kevin Cahill

January

Solar Energy Conference


2010

April

Biological Assessment for Water Quality in Plattekill Brook, NY with Regional Wellbeing Students

Intermunicipal Watershed Planning Workshop sponsored with the Hudson River Watershed Alliance and the Hudson River Estuary Program

March

World History Institute Workshop

Global Water Crisis with World Affairs Council

Cognitive Processing Therapy: Two Day Training for Treating PTSD

Keeping PACE with Energy Options Energy Conservation, Alternative Energy Initiatives, and Funding Strategies for Hudson Valley Municipalities

February

Solar Farmers’ Workshop with TSEC

Intermunicipal Watershed Planning Workshop sponsored with the Hudson River Watershed Alliance and the Hudson River Estuary Program with LWV of the Mid-Hudson Valley

 


2009

November

One Book One New Paltz

October

Joint conference on local government in partnership with Pattern for Progress

September

The Hudson Conference: A celebration to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's legendary voyage

June

Stream Monitoring Workshop

May

Shakespeare conference for teachers in the region

April

The Hudson: America’s River" Book reading and signing, by local author Frances F. Dunwell

Innovative Responses to the Current Funding Crisis in the Arts

 


 2008

December

Second Annual Fall Conference on Local Government – Government on the Energy Gridiron with Pattern for Progress, SUNY New Paltz

Climate change and world security

November

One Book One New Paltz

NYS Commission on Local Government Economy and Competitiveness Public Hearing

October

Improving Government Efficiency, Accessing New York State's Shared Municipal Services Incentive Program