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IN THIS ISSUE:
- College announces 2020 Presidential Recognition Award recipients
- Faculty & Staff: Still time to complete required trainings before classes begin
- Campus Food Pantry will continue remote operation through fall 2020
- Another full day of events, including the community discussion of Farming While Black
- July 30: Join Hudson Valley artist and former Dorsky Museum exhibitor Jean-Marc Superville Sovak for a tour of his "a-Historical Landscapes"
- Reopening FAQ of the Day: How will the residence hall drop-off days work?
- Theses and Capstones: Textiles, photography, memory and loss
- Coronavirus updates
- The latest from media
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How will the residence hall drop-off days work?
Drop-off days will be held in late July and early August as an opportunity for families to help new and returning students get situated in the residence halls. Students will be able to enter their rooms and drop off as many of their belongings as they like.
Drop-off will be scheduled for specific halls and students, according to the schedule below.
Drop-off days for returning students:
- Sunday, July 26: College/Shango, Bliss, Scudder, Ashokan, Shawangunk, Esopus, Ridgeview
- Monday, July 27: Bouton, Capen, Gage, Mohonk, Minnewaska, Lenape
- Wednesday, July 29: College/Shango, Bliss, Scudder, Ashokan, Shawangunk, Esopus, Ridgeview
- Thursday, July 30: Bouton, Capen, Gage, Mohonk, Minnewaska, Lenape
Drop-off days for new first-year and transfer students:
- Sunday, Aug. 2: All halls
- Monday, August 3: All halls
- Tuesday, August 4: All halls
PLEASE NOTE: Students with last names beginning with A-L can drop off between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. on these days. Students with last names beginning with M-Z can drop off between 1 and 4 p.m.
Students are not required to come to campus on drop-off days. However, this will be their only opportunity to set up their rooms with assistance from family members, as non-residents will not be allowed inside residence halls on the move-in days later in August.
In order to limit the number of people in each room and building on drop-off days, students will be expected to plan separate move-in times from their roommates in advance.
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The College's fall 2020 reopening plan is highly detailed and dense, and our corresponding list of FAQs runs to nearly 10,000 words (and counting!). In an effort to make this very important information more digestible for campus community members, we're highlighting questions and answers in this newsletter, one per day, as the fall semester approaches.
Please note: We are working to update and add FAQs as planning continues and this situation evolves. We will prioritize sharing the most current information in this space.
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Last year, several pieces from Jean-Marc Superville Sovak's "a-Historical Landscapes" series were added to the Dorsky Museum's Permanent Collection via the Hudson Valley Artists 2019 Purchase Award. These pieces use 19th century landscape engravings as source material onto which the Beacon, New York-based artist superimposes details from anti-slavery tracts, such as captured fugitive slaves and Underground Railroad caravans, as part of a decolonizing strategy to interrogate art historical conventions.
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Trainings from the Office of Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion
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Student Capstones and Thesis Work
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It was genuinely difficult to keep up with the staggering volume of galleries, exhibitions, original research and video presentations New Paltz students published at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. We're taking time this summer to spotlight individual projects and give this exceptional scholarship and creative work its due.
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Shabiha Jafri '20 (Photography)
"My mother's death has left a growing absence in my home and in my heart ... Her presence still lingers in small pieces: her bed, her clothes, her photographs. Her clothes are the strongest pieces of her identy; they are the only part of her that never changed. Cyanotypes of my mother's MRI brain scans are handsewn onto her clothes to document the specimen that invated her body. I confront and acknowledge the new version of herself I never wanted to accept ... This is my attempt to bring her presence back into my life before I forget her."
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Daily Digest readers: We want to hear from you!
Our team is seeking input on how this newsletter can best serve students, faculty and staff as we all adjust to new ways of teaching, learning, working and living.
We're inviting submissions* and ideas of all kinds:
- Have important news to share with the SUNY New Paltz community?
- Developed an innovative solution to improve remote teaching and learning?
- Figured out a lifehack to help yourself stay positive?
- Want to share a photograph with friends and colleagues?
Please just reply to this email or write to communication@newpaltz.edu and let us know what you would like to see in this space. Thank you!
*Note: Opinions expressed by our contributors belong solely to their authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of SUNY New Paltz.
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