Release Date
Thursday February 4, 2021
Clarkson University Professor of Education Catherine Snyder has been named to the Board of Directors for the national accreditation agency: Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP).
The AAQEP was founded in 2017. It is a membership organization and quality assurance agency that provides accreditation services and formative support to all types of educator preparation providers. The AAQEP’s mission is to promote and recognize quality educator preparation that strengthens the education profession’s ability to serve all students, schools, and communities, and to do so equitably.
Snyder is the chair of the Department of Education and the Associate Director of the Institute for STEM Education at Clarkson University’s Capital Region Campus. Dr. Snyder has been with Clarkson for 15 years, after a career teaching at the secondary level. She has taught students ranging from middle school to graduate school in the US and
The winter storm caused state vaccination sites to close in the downstate area, but ones in upstate remained open Monday. Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a briefing, blamed the federal government for ongoing glitches in the state’s vaccine roll out.
Capital Correspondent Karen Dewitt has the story.
The state’s vaccination program continues to be plagued by problems, and new data from New York City shows that communities of color are receiving the vaccination at lower rates than whites.
Of the 300,000 or so city residents who were vaccinated and who answered a question about their race, 48% were white, 15 percent were Latino and 11 percent were Black. Nearly 30 percent of New York City residents are Hispanic, and 24 percent are African American.
Cuomo says preliminary state data shows that the trend holds for hospital workers who were offered vaccinations in December and January. Cuomo says of the 70 percent of hospital workers statewide who are white, 63 percent took the vaccine. Latinos, who make up 8 percent of the total hospital workers, made up 10 percent of the employees who received the shot. Asian- Americans, who are 11 percent of the health care workers, represented 16 percent of those taking the vaccine. But
The winter storm caused state vaccination sites to close in the downstate area. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo blamed the federal government for ongoing
ALBANY, NY (WSKG) – A winter storm caused state vaccination sites to close Monday and Tuesday in the downstate area, while vaccinations sites upstate will delay opening.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a briefing, blamed the federal government for ongoing glitches in the state’s vaccine rollout.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a briefing in New York City Monday GOVERNORANDREWCUOMO / FLICKR
The state’s vaccination program continues to be plagued by problems. Many seniors who are eligible to receive vaccinations have been unable to navigate complex websites to schedule appointments. The governor said the state has a hotline number to schedule appointments by phone. The number is: 1-833-NYS-4-VAX (1-833-697-4829).