SUNY 60th Anniversary Scholarly Conference Program
Friday, April 3
Registration (12:00 - 5:00 p.m.) Concourse of Lecture Center (LC)
Fountain (Ground) level, corridor between rooms LC 10 and 15 - downstairs entrance near the Performing Arts Center (PAC)
NOTE: Registration will move to outside the Campus Center Ballroom (second floor) from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Coffee (12:00 - 2:30 p.m.) Futterer Lounge, second floor, Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Welcome (2:00 - 2:15 p.m.) Recital Hall, second floor, Performing Arts Center
Conference Chair Dr. John B. Clark (Stony Brook University, SUNY)
President George Philip (University at Albany, SUNY)
Provost Risa I. Palm (SUNY System Administration)
Session 1 (2:15 - 4:00 p.m.) Recital Hall, second floor, Performing Arts Center
Opening Plenary: Creating SUNY - The State & National Context
Moderator: Ron Seeber (Cornell University)
Commentator: Sanford Levine (University at Albany and former SUNY Counsel)
"Shared Goals, Different Politics: The Truman Commission and the New York Commission"
Philo Hutcheson (Georgia State University)
"The Temporary Commission: An Examination of its Research Committees"
Harold Wechsler (New York University)
"War, Politics, and Creating a State University"
Tod Ottman (Independent Scholar)
"Higher Education Goals and Geography in NYS: The Regents, SUNY and the Mobile Future"
Randy Angiel (SUNY Oneonta)
2A SUNY's Colleges of Technology (LC 19)
Moderator: President Candace Vancko (SUNY Delhi)
Commentator: President Joseph Kennedy (SUNY Canton)
"Farmingdale's Evolution from Agricultural College to SUNY Technology"
Daniel S. Marrone (SUNY Farmingdale)
"Maritime's Strange Entry into SUNY"
Maryellen Keefe (SUNY Maritime College)
"From Schools of Agriculture to Colleges of Technology: A Century of Administrative Evolution"
Joseph Petrick (Alfred State, SUNY)
2B The State Teachers College Era and the Origins of SUNY's University Colleges (LC 20)
Moderator: President Steven Poskanzer (SUNY New Paltz)
Commentator: President Dennis Hefner (SUNY Fredonia)
"President Haggerty of New Paltz (1944 - 1966)"
Mark Lapping (University of Southern Maine)
"Rescuing the State Teachers College from History's Scrapheap"
Ken O'Brien (The College at Brockport, SUNY)
"The Impact of Sputnik on Science Teacher Preparation at Buffalo State College"
Catherine Lange, Joe Zawicki and Donald Birdd (SUNY Buffalo State)
"SUNY Oswego: From Recovery and Refugees to Re-invention and Revival"
Timan H. Nekritz (SUNY Oswego)
2C Sampling SUNY's Varied Missions (LC 21)
Moderator: Dr. Risa I. Palm (SUNY System Administration)
"Environmental Science & Forestry and SUNY: A Unique Relationship"
Hugh O. Canham (SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry)
"Why University Presses Should Be and Need to Be Relevant"
Gary Dunham (SUNY Press)
"The Economic Scientific and Cultural Impact of the NYS College of Ceramics"
Bill LaCourse and Patricia LaCourse (New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University)
"Purchase Conservatory of Music"
James McElwaine (SUNY Purchase)
Cocktail Reception (6:00 - 7:00 p.m.) Ballroom, second floor, Campus Center
Dinner and Program (7:00 p.m.) Ballroom, second floor, Campus Center
Welcome from Chairman Carl T. Hayden, SUNY Board of Trustees
Keynote Address: Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. (1978-87)
Saturday, April 4
Registration (8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) Concourse of Lecture Center (LC)
Fountain (Ground) level, corridor between rooms LC 10 and 15 - downstairs entrance near the Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Continental Breakfast (8:00 - 9:00 a.m.) Campus Center Ballroom (second floor)
Session 3 (9:00 - 10: 30 a.m.) Lecture Center (LC), Rooms LC 19 - 22
3A SUNY's Community Colleges (LC 19)
Moderator: Dennis Golladay (Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges, SUNY System Administration)
Commentator: President Ann Marie Murray (Herkimer County Community College)
"A Retrospective and Prospective View of the Westchester Community College Experience, 1946 - 2006 and Beyond"
Marjorie Glusker (Westchester Community College)
"Reflections on Women Faculty Members' Struggle for Gender Equity at Tompkins Cortland Community College"
Karen Pastorello (Tompkins Cortland Community College)
"Providing Access and Opportunity through Community Colleges: New York & Florida as National Models"
Christine Broeker (Seminole Community College, Florida)
3B Politics, Policy, and Education: SUNY in the State and in the Nation (LC 20)
Moderator: Richard Nathan (Rockefeller Institute)
Commentator: Henry Steck (SUNY Cortland)
"James Conant on New York State & California"
Wayne Urban (University of Alabama)
"Examining Educational and Professional Backgrounds of New York State Governors"
Thomas Sanford, Erin Heath Sperling and Darwin D. Hendel (University of Minnesota)
"Reflections on SUNY & NYS Politics: Sixty Years On and On to the Next Sixty Years"
Gerald Benjamin (SUNY New Paltz)
3C A Case Study of a Public Urban Research University: University at Buffalo (LC 21)
Moderator: Bill Barba (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Commentator: Nancy Diamond (University of Vermont)
"Location, Location, Location: Siting the University at Buffalo"
Bill Greiner (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
"Presidential Leadership, Change, & Community: SUNY-Buffalo, 1966-1981"
Patricia A. Maloney (Independent Scholar)
"When Buffalo Got Hot: The Arts Scene at University of Buffalo in the 1960s"
Bruce Jackson (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
3D Accessibility & Quality Education in SUNY (LC 22)
Moderator: President Muriel Howard (Buffalo State College, SUNY)
Commentator: Ken O'Brien (The College at Brockport, SUNY)
"The Changing Culture of SUNY: Keeping to its Promise of Accessible Public HigherEducation for the State of New York"
Mia Alexander-Snow (University of Central Florida)
"The Transformation of SUNY Geneseo"
Wayne Mahood (SUNY Geneseo)
"SUNY and Disabilities"
David DuBois (Empire State College, SUNY)
Session 4 (10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.) Lecture Center, Rooms LC 19 - 22
4A Preserving and Telling SUNY's Community College Story (LC 19)
Moderator: President Stuart Steiner (Genesee Community College)
Commentator: President Emeritus Tom Flynn (Monroe Community College)
"The SUNY Community Colleges: An Oral History of the First 30 Years"
Ben Weaver and Neal Robbins (University at Albany, SUNY)
"Suffolk County Community College Oral History and Film Project"
Karleen Erhardt and Kevin McCoy (Suffolk County Community College)
4B SUNY and its Students Across the Decades (LC 20)
Moderator: President John Halstead (The College at Brockport, SUNY)
Commentator: Elizabeth Bringsjord (SUNY System Administration)
"Students in a 1950s SUNY State Teachers College"
Bruce Leslie (The College at Brockport, SUNY)
"SUNY Responds to the Student Movement in the 1960s"
Shawn McConnell (University at Albany, SUNY)
"Today's SUNY Student"
Garret Komarisky (Secretary, SUNY Student Assembly/Buffalo State College, SUNY)
4C Defining Moments: Major Reports on Higher Education (LC 21)
Moderator: President Chris Dahl (SUNY Geneseo)
Commentator: Philo Hutcheson (Georgia State University)
"From Chaos to Order?: California's 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education"
John Douglass (University of California at Berkeley)
"Three Historical Moments: Hamilton's Inaugural, Independent Commission, and Rethinking SUNY"
Henry Steck (SUNY Cortland)
"An Assessment of the NYS Commission on Higher Education"
John B. Clark (Stony Brook University, SUNY)
4D Keeping SUNY's History Out of the Memory Hole: Archives (LC 22)
Moderator: Doug Skopp (SUNY Plattsburgh)
Commentator: Kathleen Roe (New York State Archives)
"An Archive Grows in Brooklyn - Establishing an Archive at Downstate Medical Center"
Jack E. Termine and Kathleen E. Powderly (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
"The State of Archives on SUNY Campuses: The Good, the Bad, and the Unaccounted"
Geoff Williams (University at Albany, SUNY)
Lunch and Program (12:30 - 1:45 p.m.) Campus Center Ballroom (second floor)
Remarks by Ambassador Donald Blinken (Chair, Board of Trustees, 1978-90)
Keynote: Chancellor D. Bruce Johnstone (1988-94)
SUNY Press Event: Book-signing of Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return by
Ambassador and Vera Blinken to immediately follow luncheon.
Session 5 (2:15 - 3:45 p.m.) Lecture Center, Rooms LC 19-22
5A The Changing Face of SUNY: Diversity and Educational Equity (LC 19)
Moderator: Pedro Caban (SUNY System Administration)
Commentator: Edna Acosta-Belen (University at Albany, SUNY)
"Changing Demographics and Representational Dilemmas at SUNY"
José E. Cruz (University at Albany, SUNY)
"Black Studies at New Paltz: The Formative Years"
Karanja Carroll (SUNY New Paltz)
"The New Paltz Scholar's Mentorship Program: Retention of Students of Color"
Manisha Ford-Thomas (SUNY New Paltz)
"Creating Educational Opportunity for All: A Brief History of EOP and EOC"
Carlos Medina (SUNY System Administration)
5B Research and Development: A Critical Challenge for SUNY (LC 20)
Moderator: President Lois DeFleur (Binghamton University, SUNY)
Commentator: George Stefano (SUNY Old Westbury)
"Better Late than Never: Intention, Timing, & Results in Creating SUNY Research Universities"
Roger Geiger (Pennsylvania State University)
"Documenting SUNY Research: A Comparative Approach"
Nancy Diamond (University of Vermont)
"Academic and Research Cooperation across Campuses within SUNY: Successes and Failures"
Jim Kalas (University at Albany, SUNY)
5C Healing New Yorkers: Medical Education (LC 21)
Moderator: President David Smith (SUNY Upstate Medical University)
Commentator: President Carl P. Wiezalis (SUNY University Faculty Senate)
"History of the Future: Trailblazing Innovations in Nursing Education"
Mary Pat Lewis, Deborah Adelman and Cheryle Levitt (SUNY Delhi)
"Medical Education and Health Care in Brooklyn"
Jack E. Termine and Kathleen E. Powderly (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
"SUNY Optometry: Serving Public Health"
President David Heath (SUNY Optometry)
5D Curriculum: E Pluribus Unum (LC 22)
Moderator: Ken O'Brien (The College at Brockport, SUNY)
"The SUNY Core Curriculum in Context"
Anne D. Neal (American Council of Trustees & Alumni)
Panel:
Joanne M. Cepelak (Alfred State, SUNY)
Joe Hildreth (SUNY Potsdam)
Rose Rudnitski (SUNY New Paltz)
Session 6 (4:00 - 5:30 p.m.) Lecture Center, Rooms LC 20 - 22
6A Creating Human Capital: SUNY in the New York State Economy (LC 20)
Moderator: President Neil Murphy (SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry)
Commentator: President John Anderson (Alfred State, SUNY)
"The Influence of SUNY Colleges on County Business Patterns"
Michael L. Dolfman and Solidelle F. Wasser (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
"Access to Higher Education & New York's Economy: The Rise of the SUNY System"
Richard Vogel and President W. Hubert Keen (SUNY Farmingdale)
6B SUNY In and Of the World: International Programs and Perspectives (LC 21)
Moderator: Henry Steck (SUNY Cortland)
Commentator: Jim Ketterer (SUNY System Administration)
"SUNY's Strategic Role in International Higher Education"
Karla Back (Alfred State, SUNY)
"SUNY from an English Perspective"
John Halsey (The College at Brockport, SUNY & Brunel University, England)
"SUNY's Global Reach and Responsibilities: Abroad and at Home"
President Garrick Utley (Levin Institute of International Relations and Commerce)
"SUNY International Programs: What a Difference the World Makes!"
John Ryder (SUNY System Administration)
6C Telling SUNY's Tale: Six Decades of Writing SUNY's History (LC 22)
Moderator: President John Ettling (SUNY Plattsburgh)
Commentator: John Douglass (University of California at Berkeley)
"Pride & Identity: The College Histories of SUNY Campuses"
Joel Rosenthal (Stony Brook University, SUNY)
"Writing the History of a Unique Institution: Empire State"
Richard Bonnabeau (Empire State College, SUNY)
"Strange Career of SUNY History: Past Attempts and Future Opportunities"
Bruce Leslie (The College at Brockport, SUNY)
Cocktail Reception (6:00 - 7:00 p.m.) Ballroom, Campus Center, second floor
Dinner and Program (7:00 p.m.) Ballroom, Campus Center, second floor
Conference Committee Remarks and Appreciation Ceremony
Sunday, April 5
Continental Breakfast (8:00 - 9:00 a.m.) Campus Center Ballroom (second floor)
Session 7 (9:00 - 10:30 a.m.) Campus Center Ballroom (second floor)
Closing Plenary: Where Does SUNY History Go from Here?
Moderators:
John B. Clark (Stony Brook University, SUNY)
Bruce Leslie (The College at Brockport, SUNY)
Panelists:
Jane Bunker (SUNY Press)
Nancy Diamond (University of Vermont)
John Douglass (University of California at Berkeley)
Roger Geiger (Pennsylvania State University)
Philo Hutcheson (Georgia State University)
Wayne Urban (University of Alabama)
Other Events/Displays
Display of histories of SUNY campuses (Lecture Center Concourse)
Poster displays of SUNY institutions with anniversaries in 2009 (Lecture Center Concourse)
UAlbany Archives exhibit (Lecture Center Concourse and outside Campus Center Ballroom)
SUNY Press book display (outside Campus Center Ballroom)