SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher has completed her 64-campus tour, convened a strategic planning steering committee named representatives to the Group of 200 and will embark on the first of seven “conversations” designed to engage all audiences, solicit ideas and create a statewide dialogue that will culminate in a five-year strategic plan for SUNY.

The first conversation will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Hudson Valley Community College with a group of 200 delegates, broadly representative of various SUNY constituencies.

Since Empire State College is a singular institution within SUNY, with its mission aimed at educating the adult student, the more Empire State College voices are heard in this process, the better.

Deemed “Generation SUNY,” applications like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have been branded to allow SUNY to open the doors to truly transparent dialogue and real-time feedback and comments. Members of the college community can join in the conversation using these tools:

• Follow SUNY on Twitter - www.twitter.com/generationsuny
• Become a SUNY fan on Facebook - www.facebook.com/pages/Albany-NY/The-State-University-of-New-York/142124...
• Communicate via e-mail by sending their thoughts to StrategicPlanning@suny.edu . Additionally, visitors to SUNY.edu can use the existing Share Your Ideas feature that has been available since the chancellor took office.