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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: ecasadoSBU Date: May 24, 2024, 12:52 pm
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That's great news. Stony Brook only gets better.
There is no stopping at the Brook!
I remember that small patch of forest where the New Engineering
Bldg will be built. On big snow storms we would slide down into
the small hill right into the trees. haha.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: ecasadoSBU Date: May 24, 2024, 12:59 pm
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In regards to the R&D park. Its taken a long time to get the
Park to take off.
I honestly thought this was going to be a big hit. But the
growth has been slow.
But I'm glad they haven't given up on it. This R&D Park has the
potential to really take Stony Brook to another level.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: May 28, 2024, 12:35 pm
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Stony Brook University’s radius policy leaves incoming freshman
without on-campus housing
HTML https://sbstatesman.com/127730/news/stonybrook-radius-policy-freshmen-housing-2024/
[quote]
Stony Brook University’s Campus Residences has recently taken
several steps to reduce housing occupancy on campus, including
barring incoming students who live within a certain distance of
campus from living in on-campus housing.
While the radius policy has always existed, it is only enforced
when “overoccupancy exists even after a reasonable number of
rooms are temporarily tripled,” according to the Campus
Residences Terms of Occupancy for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Campus Residences has also taken the step of offering a cash
incentive to current students who cancel their housing for the
upcoming academic year.
Ezza Park, an incoming freshman majoring in sociology, had the
opportunity to attend Binghamton University but ultimately
decided to commit to Stony Brook. However, after receiving
notice from Campus Residences that she had been denied housing
due to the radius policy, her confidence in Stony Brook has been
shaken.
“It does kind of make me question, or make me feel as if I can’t
trust Stony Brook and their departments,” she said.
Despite being within the distance for the University to deny her
housing due to the radius policy, Park is unable to commute to
campus and does not own a car. When she attempted to explain
this to Campus Residences in an email, she said she received a
response that was “not helpful at all.”
“If I don’t get housing, I may need to look into off-campus
housing which also isn’t ideal because I don’t have a car, and
some of the apartments are like 5-15 miles away from the
campus,” Park said.
She’s not the only student who has these sentiments. Andrew
Falco, an incoming freshman majoring in respiratory care, told
Newsday that he was so disappointed by the University canceling
his housing that he began asking other colleges that he was
accepted to if he could attend in the fall.
The website also stated that approximately 300 students were
affected by the radius policy, though as Campus Residences
“[works] to address each student’s needs and receive housing
cancellations, this number is decreasing.”
During the fall 2023 semester, approximately 77% of first-year
students lived on campus, and around 9,868 total students lived
on campus.
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unclear what the radius is, but the U reserves the right to
toggle it on/off and what the value is. my guess is definitely
under 40 because that'd reach queens, where the number impacted
would balloon well past 300.
here's an FAQ that implies 30 miles:
HTML https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/studentaffairs/res/housing/Radius%20Policy%20FAQs.php?accordion=content-d19e173
that draws the line from approximately seaford to oyster bay,
and in the east mattituck to hampton bays. of course, it
excludes connecticut, as bridgeport is only 15 miles away.
newsday says its 30:
HTML https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/stony-brook-incoming-students-on-campus-housing-fs8zhvnn
[quote]A “significantly higher” than expected number of students
signed up for on-campus housing at Stony Brook University for
the upcoming fall term, forcing the university to rescind
housing to incoming students who live about 30 miles or less
from the college.
According to the school's website, there were 25,865 total
students — including more than 17,000 undergraduates — enrolled
in fall 2023. The school has 33 residence halls and 27
apartment-style buildings. About 9,868 students live on campus.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Accelerator Date: May 28, 2024, 6:47 pm
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It's good that more students than ever are signing up for on
campus housing in lieu of commuting! However, we need to build
enough to meet our new level of demand! New fancy shiny housing
buildings, finally! You *want* as many residents as possible
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: EastCoastMD Date: May 29, 2024, 9:07 am
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Looks like we are losing Marie McInnis to Yale.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: May 30, 2024, 3:41 pm
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HTML https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/environmental-design-students-propose-bold-transformations-for-campus-outdoor-spaces/
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: July 2, 2024, 10:25 am
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HTML https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-usama-m-shaikh-9893946_join-the-student-affairs-team-at-stony-brook-activity-7208471679256121344-See0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
[quote]Join the Student Affairs team at Stony Brook University!
We are recruiting two inaugural roles that will focus on event
risk management, campus demonstration activities, and continuity
of operations for Student Life. Looking for diverse and talented
individuals with experience in higher education, risk
management, event and campus activities, and/or public safety.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: August 21, 2024, 12:10 pm
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Flooding at Stony Brook U. prompts school to offer students
money to not move in
HTML https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/storms-flooding-stony-brook-university-impact-students-dorms/5721857/
[quote]Gatteau and Rivera also wrote that the school will be
offering $5,000 to continuing undergraduate students who had not
yet moved into their assigned residence halls to give up their
rooms for the 2024-2025 academic year.
In an email sent out to students, Rick Gatteau, Stony Brook’s
Vice President of Students Affairs and Catherine-Mary Rivera,
the school’s Assistant Vice President for Campus Residences
clarified that while most of the campus was operational, certain
residence halls in the on-campus Mendelson community experienced
“significant flooding.”
In addition, Stony Brook announced that they will be tripling
dorms – meaning that some rooms designed to hold two students
will now be holding three “throughout the year” according to a
statement posted on Stony Brook’s website. Students who are
placed in a triple dorm will receive a 15% discount on the room
rate credited to their school account.
This isn’t the first time that Stony Brook has experienced
housing struggles – in late May, a Newsday report said that at
least 300 incoming freshmen had been put on a housing waitlist
after more students than anticipated committed to the school for
the 2024-2025 school year.[/quote]
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: August 21, 2024, 12:18 pm
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HTML https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/stony-brook-new-york-flash-flooding-monday
HTML https://www.wshu.org/long-island-news/2024-08-19/mill-pond-catastrophic-flooding-stony-brook-suffolk-county
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: August 27, 2024, 9:46 am
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Stony Brook University students move on campus after three-day
storm delay
HTML https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/stony-brook-university-move-in-campus-fqd4bz8z
[quote]
Hundreds of Stony Brook University students moved into their
dorms Thursday following a three-day delay after a torrential
downpour early Monday flooded two residence halls, creating
havoc on campus along with millions of dollars in damage in the
region.
As they unloaded cars packed with boxes and suitcases, the
students arrived with a mix of anxiety, frustration and in many
cases resignation. And one group of returning students have been
assigned to live temporarily at the Holiday Inn Express on
Nesconset Highway in Centereach.
His mother, Donna Fonseca, noted that this was just the latest
obstacle faced by the "COVID generation” of kids, whose school
years — and lives — were badly interrupted starting in March
2020. Compared to the pandemic, the three-day delay at Stony
Brook was nothing, she said.
"This generation has learned to roll with it,” she said.
Rieve Nydegger, 17, a freshman from Hampton Bays, was busy
unloading four trombones, a suitcase full of sheet music,
clothes and other items from his parents’ car Thursday morning.
"It was annoying, but it gave me some extra time to get ready
and mentally prepare,” the music major said of the delay.
His parents, Jami and Rick, said they thought the university did
a good job handling the flooding emergency.
"It’s really impressive how quickly Stony Brook got their act
together,” Jami said. "They did a great job.”
Her husband said Stony Brook, "hit with a curve thrown that fast
and unexpected,” still "rebounded seamlessly.”
"This could have been a whole lot worse,” he said.
Nydegger was also assigned a forced triple before the flooding,
but was taking it in stride.
"It doesn’t matter,” he said. "Just another kid.”
Administration officials have said that for the 2024-25 academic
year, 35% of new first-year residents and 20% of new transfer
residents are being housed temporarily in triple rooms that were
built to accommodate two students.
Stony Brook said demand for on-campus housing is growing, partly
due to increased enrollment. Despite adding 3,000 beds during
the last 15 years, they said, some temporary housing like forced
triples is still needed. The flooding added to the problem,
officials said.
Students get a 15% reduction in their housing fee for living in
a forced triple. Students were allowed to cancel their housing
reservation by noon Wednesday if they did not want to live in a
forced triple. They would get their housing fee refunded, plus a
$5,000 "incentive,” university officials said.[/quote]
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