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  • SUNY Old Westbury, Downstate expand nursing program partnership | Long Island Business News

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    SUNY Old Westbury is expanding its work with , which secured nearly $170,000 through the State University of New York’s High Needs Nursing Fund.

    The award is part of a nearly $1 million investment across SUNY, intended to support campus partnerships that increase nursing program capacity, strengthen transfer pathways and increase available nursing seats throughout the state.

    “This funding strengthens a pathway for future nurses and ,” Timothy Sams, president of SUNY Old Westbury, said in a news release about the partnership.

    The investment comes at a time when New York is experiencing ongoing nursing shortages, rising healthcare demand and the needs of an aging population requiring more complex and continuous care. Across the SUNY system, High Needs Nursing Fund initiatives are projected to create or add more than 230 nursing seats statewide.

    Downstate and Old Westbury will use the funding to advance their joint initiative, “ Pathway: Train to Retain,” strengthening an existing transfer partnership to allow more Old Westbury graduates to enter Downstate’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

    The initiative also establishes direct and contingent admission pathways from the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to the Master of Science in Education in Nursing Education program, to prepare nurse educators and expand instructional capacity.

    “The ability to meet the healthcare needs of our communities depends on a strong and diverse nursing workforce,” Dr. Wayne Riley, president of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, said in the news release. “This award allows us to expand access to nursing education, create clear academic pathways that move students into high-demand nursing careers, and strengthen our partnership with Old Westbury.”

    “By enabling more students to transition from our undergraduate programs into Downstate’s accelerated nursing degree and then into its master’s program in nursing education, we are creating opportunities for students to advance into critical healthcare roles while strengthening the workforce,” Sams said.

    The institutions maintain a broader academic partnership that provides priority enrollment pathways for qualified Old Westbury students into Downstate’s accelerated and graduate programs in nursing, physician assistant studies and physical therapy. The nursing education award is designed to build on that partnership and support ongoing workforce development efforts.

     


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  • Long Island firm launches $400K scholarship at SUNY Old Westbury | Long Island Business News

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    THE BLUEPRINT:

    • donates $400,000 to create the Jeffrey M. Sissons Memorial Scholarship Fund

    • 10 of up to $40,000 each support students from or

    • Scholarships target first-year students with economic need and are renewable for up to four years

    • First awardee plans to pursue a career in medicine

    A Westbury-based company is investing $400,000 to fund 10 four-year scholarships, up to $40,000 each, for students from Westbury or New Cassel attending , the university announced Monday.

    Deer Park Recycling, a provider of scrap metal recycling, is creating the Jeffrey M. Sissons Memorial Scholarship Fund through a donation to the Old Westbury College Foundation, Inc. The donation was given by Anthony Sissons to honor the life, career and philanthropic legacy of his father, the company’s founder who died in 2024.

    “These scholarships were something my father and I discussed often,” Anthony Sissons said about the new scholarship.

    “Along with his work career, my father offered support to the community our company calls home, but he did it quietly and without recognition,” Sissons said. “With these scholarships, we are able to put his name on a program that reflects his values of hard work, generosity and community support.”

    The scholarship is designed to support high-achieving students and provides funding for tuition, fees and other university-related expenses.

    New awards will be given in the fall to one first-year student enrolling full-time who demonstrates economic need but does not otherwise qualify for financial aid. The scholarship may be renewed annually for up to three additional years, provided the student remains enrolled and maintains a GPA of 2.7 or higher.

    “Philanthropic investment where we live and work is key to lifting up our communities and the friends and neighbors who live there,” University President Timothy Sams said in the news release.

    “The Sissons scholarship fund represents well the history of quiet caring that showed across his life and career,” Sams added. “His legacy now continues on by making available to the best and brightest from Westbury and New Cassel.”

    The college foundation’s Board of Trustees Chair Nora Bassett said in the news release that this “remarkable gift will open doors for deserving young people who dream of going to college but may lack the financial means. We are honored to carry forward the memory of Jeffrey Sissons through the success of these scholars.”

    The university announced on Monday that the first scholarship awardee is Alexa Santiago Munoz, a first-year biochemistry major from New Cassel who hopes to become a physician, but was wary about taking on debt.

    “This scholarship is helping me build a future as a doctor that I hope will improve the lives of those who come from communities like mine,” Santiago Munoz said in the news release.  “I am already thinking about ways to make sure I open doors for others the way this opportunity opened a door for me.”

     


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  • SUNY Old Westbury School of Business earns ASCSB international accreditation | Long Island Business News

    SUNY Old Westbury School of Business earns ASCSB international accreditation | Long Island Business News

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    The State University of New York at Old Westbury’s School of Business has earned international accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, whose U.S. office is based in Tampa, Florida.

    Schools that pursue this designation undergo a multi-year process that began in 2017. In that process, each applicant must meet specific standards, with the goal of creating the next-generation leaders, according to the organization.

    “AACSB accreditation recognizes institutions that have demonstrated a focus on excellence in all areas, including teaching, research, curriculum development and student learning,” Stephanie Bryant, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB, said in news release about the designation earned by SUNY Old Westbury.

    “We congratulate State University of New York at Old Westbury and Dean Shalei Simms on earning accreditation and applaud the entire team – including the administration, faculty, staff, and students – for their roles in earning this respected honor,” Bryant added.

    “Earning AACSB accreditation is all about our dedication to our students and our faculty’s commitment to excellence,” SUNY Old Westbury President Timothy Sams said in the news release.

    “AACSB sets the highest standards, so students and graduates of our School of Business now have more proof of what we’ve always known – that they receive a rigorous, relevant education that readies them for success in the careers and lives they want for themselves,” Sams added.

    AACSB accreditation is designed to prompt new ways of thinking within business education at a global level. According to the organization only 6% of schools around the world that offer business degree programs hold AACSB business accreditation.

    Shalei Simms, acting dean of the SUNY Old Westbury School of Business,  said in the release that it’s only “the strongest business schools in the world have earned AACSB accreditation. After AACSB’s intensive review process and through the commitment and expertise of our faculty, we are proud to be able to say that AACSB recognizes that we deliver on our promise to prepare the next generation of business leaders.”

    AACSB accreditation is designed to ensure that schools achieve continuous improvement with the focus to deliver on their mission, innovate and drive impact, according to the news release. Schools earning the designation  have undergone a rigorous peer-review process to help ensure that they have the resources, credentials and commitment required to provide students with a “first-rate, future-focused business education.”

    In July, SUNY Old Westbury announced that its status had changed from a college to a university.

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  • SUNY Old Westbury is becoming a university | Long Island Business News

    SUNY Old Westbury is becoming a university | Long Island Business News

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    SUNY Old Westbury is becoming a university, effective July 1, the institution said in a news release on Monday.

    The announcement was made on Friday, during the inauguration of Timothy Sams as the institution’s sixth president.

    The campus’s official name will change from “State University of New York College at Old Westbury” to “State University of New York at Old Westbury.” Still, most will refer to the institution as SUNY Old Westbury, as it is known now.

    SUNY Old Westbury held an inauguration ceremony for its president, Timothy Sams./Courtesy of SUNY Old Westbury

    “SUNY Old Westbury is proud to be recognized formally as a university, a recognition that is reflective of our rigorous, high-quality academic offerings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,” Sams said in the news release.

    “This new designation rightly represents the type of institution that we are today,” he added. Even so, while our legal name changes, our mission remains the same. SUNY Old Westbury is a campus committed to powerful, liberal arts education and dedicated to preparing its students for career and life success while empowering them to be change-makers for social and environmental justice.”

    During his inaugural address, Sams shared his vision for SUNY Old Westbury.

    “My vision for SUNY Old Westbury is to be known as a premiere ‘predominantly diverse institution,’” Sams said. “By premiere, we mean that Old Westbury will provide liberal arts excellence by leading within the diversity, equity, inclusion and justice space; hosting a transformational student experience; sponsoring class leading programs in STEM, social justice, and sustainability; managing with distinction; and we will be responsive to the dynamic needs of our region, our country, and the world.”

    At the inauguration, SUNY Chancellor John King, Jr., described Sams “the kind of educator who is committed to building a community of support where every young person feels a sense of belonging and a sense of being seen – that’s an Old Westbury tradition he represents.”

    Sams, King said, “is a leader in the tradition that is the best about our democracy, a democracy that is not fully formed. Generation after generation have stood up to fight for civil rights, to fight for the right to vote, to fight to expand the circle of democracy, the circle of freedom, the circle of justice – that is a tradition in which I know Tim has already led and that he will continue to lead.”

    Sams was appointed president of SUNY Old Westbury two years ago, amid COVID-19. During the height of the pandemic, part of the campus had served as a vaccination center. The inauguration, at Sams’ urging, was held off as the campus began to return to full swing, including the celebration of class graduates in May of 2022.

    Last week’s inauguration included the participation of more than 20 delegates representing academic institutions throughout SUNY and from across the nation.

    “We will be a go-to institution for diverse, brilliant, and skilled leaders who apply ethical intelligence to human and planetary conditions,” Sams said, in closing his inaugural address. “This vision pays homage to our heritage, and keeps us true to our mission, our prophetic voice, and our calling as a public liberal arts institution.”

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  • Rev. Calvin Butts, III, former SUNY Old Westbury president, dies at 73 | Long Island Business News

    Rev. Calvin Butts, III, former SUNY Old Westbury president, dies at 73 | Long Island Business News

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    Calvin O. Butts, III, the president emeritus of the State University at Old Westbury and civil rights leader, died Friday.  He was 73.

    An influential pastor who considered former President Bill Clinton a friend, Butts was also the longest-serving president of SUNY Old Westbury. His tenure at the college ran from September 1999 through August 2020, when he retired. He also spent the last served as the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., and later, his son Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., had previously served as pastors.

    In a tweet this morning, Abyssinian Baptist  said: “It is with profound sadness, we announce the passing of our beloved pastor, Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, lll, who peacefully transitioned in the early morning of October 28, 2022. The Butts Family & entire Abyssinian Baptist Church membership solicit your prayers.”

    Butts is credited with transforming the college, boosting higher admissions standards. Under his reign, the school grew from a reported enrollment of 2,995 in 2000 to, according to the university in 2019, a current total enrollment of 5,128.

    Butts was proud of his work at SUNY Old Westbury.

    “We’ve accomplished a great deal across 20 years,” he told LIBN upon his retirement. He said his team “got the college to a place where it is on par with the best schools in the SUNY system. We’ve taken away the notion that it’s first a school for black people … We provide access and affordability to all people who would not otherwise be able to afford a college education. It’s open to all citizens.”

    And he took pride in working with leaders across the political aisle.

    “On Long Island, you’ve got to,” he told LIBN. “There’s so much more we can do here. Keep improving on your last improvement.

    Under his leadership, SUNY Old Westbury received national and international recognition, including presidential honors for nine consecutive years for its academically-embedded civic engagement program for first-time-to-college students, according to the college. SUNY Old Westbury was recognized each year by U.S. News and World Report for the diversity of its student body, upholding the campus’ commitment to access and opportunity for all members of society, and in 2018 earned its first Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, an honor it has earned in the four subsequent years as well.

    Butts was active with the Long Island business community. He served on the leadership boards of such organizations as The Long Island Association, the Boy Scouts of America-Theodore Roosevelt Council, The Long Island Housing Partnership and the Community Development Corporation of Long Island.

    He was also a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/Aids, chairman of the Board of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS and a founding member of its Board of Commissioners, co-chair of the African American Men and Boys Initiative, president of Africare NYC, and as a member of the board of the September 11th Fund.

    “I had the pleasure of engaging with Dr. Butts a few times since my arrival on campus,” said Timothy Sams, who succeeded Butts when he assumed the presidency of SUNY Old Westbury in January 2021. “I was, and always will remain, impressed not only by his love for this institution and its people, but for his belief in the powerful role SUNY Old Westbury must play in providing access to a high-quality education and for its historic commitment to social justice.”

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