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February 8, 2019
New offerings include College's first online degree offering The State University of New York at Old Westbury has announced three new graduate degree programs that will begin classes in fall 2019, including the College’s first fully online degree offering. The online M.S. in Accounting will join…
February 1, 2019
Dr. Jacqueline Emery, an assistant professor in the English Department at SUNY Old Westbury, recently had her book “Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press” earn the 2018 Outstanding Academic Title award from the publishing unit of the Association of College…
January 28, 2019
The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Our Land," a new exhibition comprising photography and video by artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diaspora. Curated by Anthony Hamboussi, photographer and adjunct professor in the Visual Arts Department at SUNY…
January 22, 2019
The entire SUNY Old Westbury community today mourns the loss of former President Harris Wofford, a civil rights icon and civilian service advocate who served as president of the College from 1966 until 1970.  Mr. Wofford died on January 22, 2019. Below is the message shared with the campus…
January 4, 2019
The SUNY Old Westbury School of Education and its New York state-certified educators are offering a free Literacy Learning Clinic to the community beginning January 31, 2019. The Clinic will provide reading and writing strategy instruction sessions once weekly for 45 minutes on the College’s campus…
December 13, 2018
The Old Westbury College Foundation, Inc. at its December 2018 meeting elected eight new members to its Board of Trustees.  The new members are:Nora Bassett, a local management training consultant. Gary Casimir, a 1988 SUNY Old Westbury graduate and partner in the law firm of McGivney Kluger &…
December 10, 2018
Biological Sciences student Sarah Sadik recently returned from the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis, Indiana with an award for her poster presentation on prostate cancer. Mentored in the laboratory of Dr. Manya Mascareno, associate professor of Biological…
November 29, 2018
Dr. Christopher Z. Hobson, professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury, recently authored “James Baldwin and the Heavenly City: Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt,” which provides new interpretations on the works of the famous American novelist and social critic. Hobson’s book focuses on …