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e College has also been fortunate to receive support to enrich and expand our
academic programs including a grant from Bethpage federal Credit Union to support
our entrepreneurial Assistance Youth Summer Camp, a grant from the New York
State energy research and Development Authority (NYSerDA) to benefit green
initiatives for our HvAC Program, support from the National Council of Teachers of
english for a faculty study and a federal Title iii grant to improve and strengthen the
academic quality of education.
in March, we received official notice that our Power (Pathways to opportunities
within energy and renewables) grant funded through the U.S. Department of
Labor, had received a no-cost extension through June 2014 based on superior per-
formance to date. Awarded in July 2010, our performance through December 31,
2012 shows that 259 participants successfully completed energy efficiency, LeeD and
Solar/Pv installer training; 175 of the completers were employed. Similarly, our
participation in the Health iT Community College Consortium, led by Tidewater
Community College (vA), received notice on March 23rd of approval for a second
no-cost extension. e Consortium, with 23 original sub-awardees, was first funded
in April 2010 for a period of two years. following its first extension period, 14
community colleges remained. Suffolk is one of only three remaining consortium
partner colleges asked to continue. e others are both in New Jersey (essex and
Gloucester County). To date 351 participants have successfully completed training.
e College submitted two proposals to the SUNY 2020 grant competition. e
first of these cast Suffolk in the role of Downstate regional Lead in an advanced
manufacturing and composites workforce training initiative, led by fulton
Montgomery Community College. e second proposal requested $15 million for
the construction, on the Michael J. Grant Campus, of a new, 31,600 square foot,
renewable energy and STeM Center (reSC). Although neither of these proposals
was successful, the reSC proposal was instrumental to the College’s successful effort
to get the reSC building included in the state and the county capital budgets.
e College’s National institutes of Health (NiH) Department of Health and Human
Services institutional research and Academic Career Development Award (irACDA)
began this year with a visit to the College by a team of postdoctoral researchers from
Stony Brook University. e project is entitled Consortia for the Advancement of Post-
doctoral Scholars (CAPS). e College will receive approximately $140,000 over three
years to mentor up to 10 postdoctoral students who will gain teaching experience at
Suffolk.
A faculty team from the Ammerman Campus has been selected to receive a $10,000
SUNY innovative instructional Technology Grant (iiTG) for a project entitled
E-portfolios for Student Veterans at SCCC. e team will use the funds to equip a learning
space in the Huntington Library that will host e-portfolio and digital media equipment
for student veterans intended to facilitate their transition to the campus and result in
individualized electronic portfolios.
A faculty team from the Michael J. Grant Campus hosted an extremely successful,
day-long symposium entitled Digital Humanities and the Transformation of
Scholarship with grant funds from a SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines (CiD)
Award. Suffolk County Community College was the only community college to
receive a CiD award last year.
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e academic symposium entitled Digital Humanities and the
Transformation of Scholarship, was funded through a grant from a
SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines (CID) Award.