The Statesman

USG urges students to participate in annual Higher Education Action Day

Maya Brown • February 18, 2020

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff from both the SUNY and CUNY systems are expected to meet with New York legislators to ask for more funding on Higher Education Action Day.

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Dr. Michael Bernstein named interim president of SBU

Maya Brown • June 20, 2019

President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. announced that Dr. Michael Alan Bernstein has been appointed to serve as Interim President of Stony Brook University in a campus-wide email sent out this afternoon around 1:30 p.m.

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President Stanley to leave for Michigan State University

Maya Brown and Brianne Ledda • May 28, 2019

President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. announced that he will be leaving Stony Brook at the end of July in a campuswide email sent out on Tuesday, May 28.

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University Senate passes resolution aimed at protecting immigrants on campus

Desiree D'Iorio • February 12, 2017

The University Senate passed a resolution on Feb. 6 calling on Stony Brook University’s administration to adopt several policies aimed at protecting university community members who are undocumented immigrants.

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SUNY applications will no longer ask for criminal history

Jill Ryan • September 29, 2016

Convicted felons, with the exception of sex offenders, will no longer have to disclose their criminal history on any State University of New York enrollment applications.

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SUNY announces “seamless transfer” policy

Kelly Saberi • August 26, 2015

The new system compiles more than 32,000 academic courses across the most popular majors, which accounts for more than 95 percent of transfer students.

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Eastern Long Island Hospital to merge with SBU Hospital

Kelly Saberi • July 23, 2015

The Eastern Long Island Hospital Board of Trustees voted to affiliate with Stony Brook University Hospital on July 9.

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Campus briefing: USG discusses tobacco-free campus

Arielle Martinez • March 30, 2015

The USG Senate discussion regarding tobacco came in the midst of a SUNY-wide effort to ban tobacco use, including smoking and chewing tobacco, on all SUNY campuses.

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SUNY approves sexual assault prevention resolution

The Statesman • October 14, 2014

At Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s urging, the SUNY Board of Trustees passed a resolution on Friday, Oct. 2 to create a uniform set of prevention and response practices.

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Southampton Hospital on the way

Elsie Boskamp • April 15, 2014

Stony Brook University Hospital is close to an agreement with Southampton Hospital that will join the two facilities and build a medical center on the university’s Southampton campus.

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SUNY Tobacco-Free Policy Goes Up In Smoke

Will Welch • September 3, 2013

Contrary to the announcement made last semester, Stony Brook University will not be tobacco-free in 2014, following the New York State Legislature’s failure to pass a State University of New York-wide tobacco ban during the 2013 legislative session.

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ARCHIVES: Mandatory activities fee still in doubt, student government awaits word from Toll (1968)

July 17, 1968

A SUNY Board of Trustees resolution of November 27, 1968 stated that the fee could be made mandatory either by a referendum of the student polity or by a declaration from University President John S. Toll.

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