Harpur College introduces new photography minor
With the addition of the new concentration, there will be six tracks within the studio art minor
May 13, 2021
The studio art minor in the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences will now include the option to focus on photography.
Starting in the fall 2021 semester, the studio art minor currently offered at Binghamton University will provide students the ability to concentrate on photography as their desired field. Students can choose a track in drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking or graphic design, and will now have photography as a sixth option. With a minimum of six courses required to complete the minor, Kathleen Brunt, assistant dean for academic affairs and advising, suggested that all students should take the opportunity to explore the new concentration.
Harpur College increases liberal arts and science graduation requirements starting fall 2021
The new credit change will not affect current undergraduates
May 13, 2021
Harpur College of Arts and Sciences is increasing the liberal arts and sciences credit requirement from 90 to 94 for all future Binghamton University students.
The SUNY-wide change will affect students entering BU this summer and will not affect current underclassmen. Current students will still be held to the 90-credit requirement.
Kathy Brunt, the assistant dean for academic affairs and advising, said courses taken from the School of Management, Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, College of Community and Public Affairs and Decker School of Nursing and Health Sciences will not fulfill the liberal arts and sciences credit requirement.
Senior column: Life is a story
There are unexpected opportunities in life s challenges
So what is my story?
Well, here’s a fun fact: I couldn’t speak until I was 4 years old.
Instead of attending a traditional preschool, I was placed in a school that specialized in dealing with kids who were deaf and mute. I remember a teacher talking to my parents, saying, “Do not put him in public school, he won’t succeed there.” Even though I couldn’t speak and let her know how I felt about that, her words lit a fire inside of me to overcome my disability and prove her wrong.
Decker College to offer new minor in speech and hearing science Sidney Slon/Photography Editor Binghamton University’s Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences’ new location in Johnson City, in addition to its Innovative Simulation and Practice Center (ISPC), features classrooms to accommodate the new speech and hearing science minor.
Program aims to help students for graduate work toward becoming speech language pathologists
April 19, 2021
The Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences has officially announced that it will now be offering a new minor in speech and hearing science for all students at Binghamton University.
The new minor aims to better prepare students for graduate programs to become speech and language pathologists (SLPs). It consists of six courses, and all students can enroll regardless of whether students are in the minor program. Some of the courses include an introduction to communication disorders, anatomy and physiology, plus phon
March 17, 2021
As a recent grad during the 2008 economic downturn, Hadassah Mativetsky ’07, MS ’12, worked as a server at a banquet hall in downtown Binghamton.
The Binghamton University Alumni Association held an event there during one of her shifts, and Mativetsky saw how the University honored distinguished graduates as well as young up-and-comers who were making a difference for their alma mater. The evening’s key messages and convivial atmosphere stoked her Binghamton pride which, it must be noted, was already pretty high.
“I’d be standing on the sidelines waiting to refill people’s water and watching the speeches,” she said. “I had a realization that alumni can be really engaged and have an impact on the University.”