Professor Gerald Benjamin appointed to Ulster County Intergovernmental Collaboration Shared Services Implementation Committee
09/08/2010
NEW PALTZ – Dr. Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Research, Regional Education, and Outreach (CRREO) at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has been appointed to the Ulster County Intergovernmental Collaboration Shared Services Implementation Committee for a term extending from September 1, 2010 through December 31, 2012.
This committee’s charge is to examine the possibility of collaborations between and among two or more general purpose governments in Ulster County in the areas of opportunity identified in the July 2010 Intergovernmental Collaboration in Ulster County Shared Municipal Services Feasibility Study for Ulster County.
As Associate Vice President for Regional Engagement and Director of CRREO at SUNY New Paltz, Dr. Benjamin is uniquely qualified for this appointment. CRREO is the principal locus of the College's efforts to raise its level of engagement within communities, governments, not-for-profits and businesses across the Hudson Valley. It seeks to conduct research on regional topics; encourage faculty to build regionally-based service activity into their scholarship and teaching; create and direct institutes and programs to meet regional needs; and offer conferences and programs on matters of regional interest.
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.
