College and local high school collaboration to be celebrated on July 30
07/28/2009
NEW PALTZ – The School of Education at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host a graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 30, in Lecture Center 100 for the Pine Bush High School students who completed the new Literacy and Education Academy program.
Fifty-one students from Pine Bush High School participated in the interactive and intensive four-week program, which was offered to students interested in pursuing careers in elementary and secondary education.
Upon completion, students will receive college credit for the course Multiple Voices in Education. The course was designed by Michael Smith, a lecturer in the Educational Studies Department at New Paltz, and was taught by Pine Bush educators. In addition to attending classes at the high school, the students also took part in special sessions led by Robert Michael, dean of the School of Education, and other educators and administrators from the region.
The July 30 graduation ceremony will recognize the students’ achievements and the inaugural year of the program.
For more information, call (845) 257-2800.
Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, 90 minutes from metropolitan New York City, the State University of New York at New Paltz is a highly selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz delivers an extraordinary number of majors in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts and Education.
New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and independent minded people from around the world create close personal links with real scholars and artists who love to teach.
