Upcoming Opportunities | Other Regularly Offered Opportunities

UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES

• Constellation of Diversity: The residency will take place February 9, 2008 at the Double Tree Hotel in Rochester NY. The Constellation of Diversity Residency will provide the opportunity to discuss with faculty, peers and alumni from across Western New York. Plenary sessions and concurrent workshops will examine social and cultural differences in a variety of ways.
  
  Credit-bearing studies associated with this residency may include studies on families, workplace diversity,language and culture, human relations and organizational issues, cultural diversity, adult education topics, and a host of related areas such as religious, political and anthropological studies. Individualized studies may be developed with the input and guidance of your primary mentor.
  
  For registration and hotel information, contact Timothy Cosgriff, Empire State College, 1475 Winton Road North, Rochester, NY 14609
  E-mail: timothy.cosgriff@esc.edu; phone: 585 224-327; fax: 585 224-3299
  Registration form: (Registration deadline is February 1, 2008)
• Keep-Mills Symposium and Residency: An annual three-day residency and an online discussion on a provocative and timely topic serve as the centerpiece for studies relating to the residency's annual theme. A grant from alumnus, Stephen Mills, funds the food and lodging for 20 students to attend the residency. The theme for 2008 is Living the Creative Life. The residency will be held at the Rensselaerville Institute Conference Center April 4 - 6, 2008.
• Weekend Writing Intensive Workshops: The Hudson Valley Center hosts Weekend Writing Intensives in Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Memoir and Writing for Children. Beginners as well as seasoned writers are welcome; open to matriculated Empire State College students. Offered for the May A or B term.
• Women's Studies Residency: A residency for students who wish to develop a vocabulary and critical understanding of feminist perspectives and what can be discovered examining the world through a "feminist lens." Offered in the spring.

OTHER REGULARLY OFFERED OPPORTUNITIES

• Annual Symposium on Health and Medicine: A series of presentations and discussions on topics related to health and medicine. Invited guests will include practitioners, academic scholars, government and private research scientists affiliated with major medical institutions. Offered every fall.
• Environmental/Adirondack Studies Residency: An annual three-day (with optional fourth day) interdisciplinary residency at a national historic landmark at Raquette Lake, with students and faculty from across New York state. Offered every fall.
• Gossip and Silence: Theatre for Development and HIV/AIDS, Africa to New York:
  Offered Saturday-Sunday, December 2 and 3, Metropolitan Center, New York City; for additional information contact Lucy Winner (Lucy.Winner@esc.edu).
  Students/Practitioners who have worked on a project in Theatre for Development in Lesotho, Southern Africa, will run a weekend residency in Theatre for Development, based on an ongoing project there – the Winter/Summer Institute (or WSI). Lesotho is an extremely poor, mountainous country inside the borders of South Africa with complex community health issues, including an HIV/AIDS infection rate of close to 42 percent.
  
  The Theatre for Development Residency will build on the work of WSI in the summer of 2006, when students from Empire State College came together with students from the UK, South Africa and Lesotho, and with villagers from Lesotho’s Malealea Valley community development project. The first convening of the Winter/Summer Institute explored the complex issues of "gossip and silence" and the role of prejudice and taboo in what is and is not talked about. This idea explores the culture of silence around significant personal issues such as HIV/AIDS, family violence and other dimensions of social health, and the abundance of gossip which compromises trust.
  
  Residency participants will:
  • View a video documentary of the summer’s work in Lesotho. Discuss Theatre for Development and the work of the Winter/Summer Institute with Empire State College participants
  • Create – through a series of improvisations and exercises led by Empire State College's WSI participants, residency attendees – a dramatic response (their own piece of theatre) to what they have seen and learned
  • Present this performance in a public forum at the close of the residency
• Hudson River Valley Residency: The Hudson River Valley Residency will take place April 14 and April 15, 2007 at the Roosevelt Presidential Library's Wallace Center, Hyde Park. This will be an interdisciplinary study that will focus on the history, literature, art, architecture, music, sociology, and ecology of the Hudson Valley.
  
  This residency offers a special opportunity for students to work together in the new Henry Wallace Educational Center located at the scenic Roosevelt estate on the Hudson River. Space is limited. Students will have a choice of workshops and will attend several during the weekend. Students wishing to stay overnight will be provided with a list of nearby accommodations.
  
  Independent follow-up studies on individual topics will be available in the summer session for 2-4 credits. For additional information, please contact Liza Alamo (914 948-6206 x3589).
• Leading, Managing and Planning For The Future: This weekend residency is designed for students studying business, health and human service topics, public administration and police administration. It will take place on October 28 - 29, 2006 at the Ramada Inn in Newburgh, New York. All students are expected to attend both days from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A $30 additional fee will be charged for the residency for food and materials.
  
  Students will be required to complete reading and writing assignments associated with this residency in order to earn two advanced liberal credits. Additional credits may be earned as a follow-up to the workshop topics depending on the student's interest. Follow-up should be planned in consultation with the student's mentor. For more information, please contact your mentor or the residency Committee: Mary.Goldman@esc.edu, 845 883-5729, Kate.Spector@esc.edu 914 948-6206 or Marie.Tondreau@esc.edu 845 708-7010.
• Photography Program: For photographers who want to work independently and design their own curriculum. Photojournalism workshop every summer; documentary photography every fall.
• Radical Encounters: Finding and Forming Community in the 21st Century: A 3-credit course on religion and community with a nine-day residency, running from May 28 to June 7, 2007 at the Mount Savior Monastery, Elmira, NY.
• Student Academic Conference: The Student All College Conference brings together Empire State College students from all areas of the college to share and learn from each other. This conference serves as a public recognition and celebration of our students and their academic and intellectual achievements and pursuits. Students are encouraged to submit proposals to showcase their academic work. Presenting can give you a well-deserved sense of personal satisfaction. Ideas for presentations can come from research papers, study group projects, internships, credit by evaluation proposals, artwork and/or photography. This year's Conference will take place on October 17-18, 2008 at the college's Central New York Center in Syracuse, NY. Please visit www.esc.edu/studentacademicconference for further information.

• April 19:
  Requests for Empire State College Foundation loans may be made.
• May 5 - May 9:
  No appointment period for faculty.
• May 5 - May 16:
  Late registration for May 2008 term.
• May 15:
  Spring March and Spring Combined Time Payment Plan # 3 is due.
• May 16:
  Study outcomes due for January 2008 term.
• May 19:
  Summer Terms A and B start.
• May 30:
  Student evaluations due for January 2008 term.
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