Chancellor Malatras Statement on SUNY Orange Surpassing 50,000 Vaccinations on Campus

May 4, 2021

"In just over a month and a half, the state mass vaccination site alone at SUNY Orange's Middletown campus has administered more than 50,000 lifesaving doses for New Yorkers. In addition, from the Newburgh campus, nearly 10,000 vaccines have been provided to the community. This is a tremendous collective effort based on strong partnership amongst the National Guard, state and county officials, and campus leadership and volunteers. For SUNY Orange, like other campuses across the state, fighting COVID-19 and protecting the community has been their top priority, and they are committed to providing all available resources.

My thanks to SUNY Orange President Young and her team for their unrelenting support. The more we get people vaccinated, the closer we are to a more normal way of life—on campus and off—and to that end, I urge everyone to get one of the three vaccine options."

About the State University of New York
The State University of New York, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, and more than 95 percent of all New Yorkers live within 30 miles of any one of SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities. Across the system, SUNY has four academic health centers, five hospitals, four medical schools, two dental schools, a law school, the country’s oldest school of maritime, the state’s only college of optometry, and manages one US Department of Energy National Laboratory. In total, SUNY serves about 1.4 million students amongst its entire portfolio of credit- and non-credit-bearing courses and programs, continuing education, and community outreach programs. SUNY oversees nearly a quarter of academic research in New York. Research expenditures system-wide are nearly $1.1 billion in fiscal year 2022, including significant contributions from students and faculty. There are more than three million SUNY alumni worldwide, and one in three New Yorkers with a college degree is a SUNY alum. To learn more about how SUNY creates opportunities, visit suny.edu.

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