MARIST
COLLEGE
MARIST
THE NAVIGATOR
ISSUE 1 | VOLUME 2| SPRING 2010
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Liberal Studies

Pre-College
Programs
FISHKILL
CENTER
 P l an A h e ad
 Career Services
 M e e t w i th
L ib rar ian
 W eek end
P ar a leg a l
 Ex e cu t ive
Edu c a t ion
UPDATES
 Prio r Learn ing
 On lin e Courses
 OLC
 CAAS
 Co mme n c eme n t
 L e ade r sh ip
Or ange
 CLS
 Honor Society
 Gr aduate
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S tu d en t
Spo tligh t
A LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
School of Global & Professional Programs
A New Name for the Integrative
Major: Liberal Studies
The School of Global &
Professional Programs is
pleased to announce that a
name change in the major of
Integrative Studies to Liberal
Studies has been approved by
the State of New York. This
is a pivotal move that will
make the degree more
valuable for students and
more clearly speaks to the
nature of the degree and its
career outcomes. The Liberal
Studies major is a degree
completion program for adults
that allows an individual to
focus on specific
concentrations such as
criminal justice, psychology,
communications, economics
and more, while providing
flexibility and convenience
for a more mature student.
The degree can be completed
on campus or online and there
are also options for a business
minor which can lead into a
master's program. Please
contact our school for further
information at (845) 575-3202
and ask to speak with Donna
Tompkins, our Liberal Studies
advisor!
Pre-College Programs
Marist adult students with high
school age children are invited
to explore academic and
creative aspirations for their
teens! Rising juniors and
seniors in high school are
invited to attend one of the
Summer Institutes at Marist
College - ranked one of the
"Best 366 Colleges and
Universities," and "25 Most
Connected Campuses" by the
Princeton Review. High
School students will learn
from experienced
professionals and talented
faculty, while spending 13
days in the heart of the historic
Hudson River Valley and upon excursions, day-long fieldtrips
completion earn 3 academic
and, of course, recreation.
Marist College credits.
Living in dorms, eating in the
cafeteria, playing in the gym,
studying in the state-of-the-art
library, and enjoying the
beautiful Marist campus
located on the banks of the
Hudson River will provide
students with a well-rounded
campus experience.
To learn more, visit the
website at www.marist.edu/
summerinstitutes.
High School students will have
several class sessions each day
mixed with time to study, local
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Plan Ahead - New Fall 2010 classes in Fishkill
The Fishkill Executive Center will see a revitalization of its undergraduate offerings in 2010 when a schedule
of undergraduate classes in a traditional 15 week semester will be offered evenings. Open to all students living
and working in Southern Dutchess County and areas convenient to Route 84 will especially enjoy the ability to
take some of their core and elective classes in Fishkill.
Fall 2010 Evening Schedule
August 30, 2010-December 17, 2010
6:30-9:00 pm
Monday
Sign up with your Advisor!
Beginning the week of
August 30, 2010 for 15 weeks,
all courses are 3 credits.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
ECON 150L
REST 335L
COM 370L
POSC 110L
CSIS 103L
ECON 101L
COM 201L
SOC 348L
MATH 130L
Economics of Social Issues
Marriage & Family
Public Relations
American National Government
Information & Computer Literacy
Principles of Macroeconomics
Communication in Society
Popular Culture
Introduction to Statistics
Career Services Event in Fishkill
NEW! Career
Services Night in
Fishkill on March
25th at 5:30PM
Career Services collaborates
with the college community
and external partners to
prepare students for individual
career success. Located on
the third floor of the library,
students can make an
appointment for resume and
For more information about
the office of career services
go to: www.marist.edu/
careerservices/
cover letter review, career
assistance, internships, career
workshops, career resources
and graduate school
advisement.
Career Services Night in
Fishkill on Thursday March
25th at 5:30 pm
Email Jennifer.Becker@marist.edu
to sign up!
Meet with a Librarian in Fishkill
If you are working on an
assignment or
research paper and
could use some
assistance navigating
the scholarly and
academic databases,
stop by or make and
appointment to meet
with a Marist
The Navigator
Librarian at the Fishkill
Executive Center. The
Marist Library subscribes to
thousands of journals,
newspapers, statistical
databases, and electronic
books. Figuring out how to
find what you need can be
challenging and we are here
just for that purpose - to help
you find what you need to be
successful in your courses.
Please call 845-897-4653 or
stop by the front desk at
the Fishkill Executive
Center to make your
appointment.
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Weekend Paralegal Certificate Program
The Paralegal Certificate Program at
Marist is approved by the American
Bar Association and is offered to adult
students with 36 transferable college
credits. Students attend classes on
alternating weekends and can
begin the program in March or
September. It is a 12-month
program that is offered as a
cohort, which allows students
to work together in a
supportive environment. The
Paralegal Program provides
students with an opportunity
to learn the skills for a successful
career in a law office, corporate setting
or public agency and offers a
curriculum which combines legal
theory and practical application.
According to the
Department of Labor,
the field has seen huge
growth over the past
30 years and is
expected to continue
growing over the next
several years, much
faster than the average
of all other occupations.
The Weekend Paralegal Program is
offered at our Fishkill Executive
Center and is taught by Marist faculty
and practicing attorneys. We will be
starting our 49th cohort in Spring 2010.
For more information about the
program, please contact Donna
Tompkins at
Donna.Tompkins@Marist.edu or
845 897-9648.
Executive Education
A Certificate in Professional Human
Resource Management program is
offered for professionals working in the
Human Resources field. The 12 week
professional development program
prepares them to sit for the Professional
in Human Resources (PHR®) or Senior
Professional in Human Resources
(SPHR®) certification exam and is
offered in both Spring and Fall Terms.
The course is taught by Samuel
Laganaro, an HR
generalist and attorney,
with more than a dozen
years experience
managing the HR
function at non-profit
organizations in the
Hudson Valley and
New York City. Prior
to that, Sam was a staff
attorney with the NYC
Commission on Human
Rights.
The Marist Financial Planning
Certificate is for adults with an interest
in Financial Planning. Students take the
six classes necessary to earn the
certificate, which provides the
educational requirements to sit for the
CFP® exam. Individuals who want to
enter the growing financial planning
field, as well as those who want to study
the financial planning process for their
personal use, take the 12 week classes
from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Fishkill.
Classes are taught be professionals in
the field.
The Marist Institute for Data Center
Professionals (IDCP) has over 25
certificates covering enterprise
computing, data center technology and
emerging technologies with students
participating from Germany, India, Sri
Lanka, South Africa and other places
around the globe. All courses are
delivered online through IDCP, taught
by academics and industry
professionals. Available in both credit
and non-credit formats. For more
information go to: http://
www.marist.edu/community/idcp.html
Contact Susan Scanlon at
Susan.Scanlon@marist.edu or call
845-575-3588
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Prior Learning Workshops
Contact Eileen
Bull for more
information about
Prior Learning at
845-575-3202
Fishkill 2010
Thursday, March 4th
Wednesday, April 14th
Monday, May 10th
Tuesday, June 15th
Wednesday, August 4th
Poughkeepsie 2010
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Noon & 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Tuesday, February 23rd
Wednesday, March 31st
Thursday, April 29th
Monday, June 21st
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Spring / Summer Online Classes
Stop by to see Eileen Comerford in Dyson 117 or by email at
Eileen.Comerford@marist.edu to register for any of the 10 week online courses:
SPRING I - March 5, 2010 - May 15, 2010
COM 325L 741
Intercultural Communication
CSIS 103L 741
Information and Computer Literacy
HIST 220L 741
The Empire State: A History of New York
INTD 213L 741
Perspectives of Science and History
PHIL 300L 741
Ethics
PSYC 201L 741
Personality Development
All course are 10
weeks long ranging
from 1 - 3 credits
SPRING II (dual listed as summer) June 5, 2010 - August 14, 2010
Courses include but not limited to:
BIOL 225L 741
Topics in Nuttrition
ENG 117L 741
College Writing II
PHIL 103L
741
World Views and Values
PSYC 101L 741
Intro to Psychology
REST 335L 741
Marriage & the Family from a Religious Perspective
For a complete list go to:
http://www.marist.edu/gpp/elearning/pdfs/spring2_2010_course_offerings.pdf
OLC Program Updates
On Tuesday, February 23,
2010, Cohort 23 will present
its Capstone projects to the
OLC faculty, staff from the
School of Global &
Professional Programs,
The Navigator
family, and friends.
students to the Organizational
Leadership &
On Thursday, March 11,
Communication Program 2010, the School of Global & Cohort 27. These students
Professional Programs and
will complete the program in
the Fishkill Executive Center February 2012.
will welcome a new group of
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CAAS Now Open to Adult Students in
Traditional Majors
Under the umbrella of Student Academic
Affairs, The Center for Advising and
Academic Services (CAAS) is an
academic support program designed to
provide a wide range of services for adult
undergraduate students, traditional
undergraduate students, faculty instructors
and administrative advisors. As of
November 2009, adult students in the
traditional majors have transitioned to
receiving their advisement with a faculty
advisor for spring 2010 registration. The
faculty advisors within the major
disciplines are the content experts to guide
adult students through course selection as
well as provide adults with personal goal
setting advice and assistance toward their
degree completion.
excellence, overseeing the avising system
and upholding the College's academic
standards.
To learn more about the Center for
Advising and Academic Services, please
visit the website at www.marist.edu/
academics/advise.
The mission of the Center for Advising
and Academic Services (CAAS) is to
provide on-going academic advising to
the student population by promoting
64th Annual Commencement
FRIDAY
MAY 21, 2010
ADULT STUDENT
COMMENCEMENT
The 64th Annual
Commencement Ceremony
will take place the weekend of
May 21st and 22nd 2010. This
marks the 4th year Marist will
host 2 ceremonies. Friday,
May 21, 2010 is the Graduate
and Adult Student Ceremony
and Saturday, May 22, 2010 is
the Traditional Undergraduate
Student ceremony. A unique
feature of the Graduate and
Adult Ceremony is the time
honored tradition of PHT
honors. Since 1966, it has
been a Marist College tradition
for all adult students,
undergraduate and graduate, to
honor the one person who
exemplifies the commitment of
support, patience, and
encouragement during your
journey to degree completion.
It is an honor the college has
coined as “PHT” honors,
otherwise known as “Putting
Him/Her Through.” This can
be any one person in the
student’s life (e.g. family,
friends, coworkers, and
faculty) who has been part of
making the degree a reality.
Look for details on our
website, keyword:
commencement.
Leadership Orange
On November 4, 2009, Toni
Constantino participated in a panel
discussion on higher education at
Leadership Orange’s Education
Conference at Orange-Ulster BOCES
in Goshen, NY. This event was
attended by approximately forty
individuals, including the
administration of the Leadership
Orange program, the current
Leadership Orange Class of 2010, as
well as a representative from SUNY
Orange. Toni presented on the topics
facing adult college students in
today’s economy, such as affording
college, financial assistance options,
and returning to school to improve
one’s marketable skills and career
prospects. The annual conference
covers an array of topics relevant to
all educational institutions, such as
the No Child Left Behind Act, public
school finance and accountability,
school safety, special education,
career and technical training, school
board membership, and postsecondary education. Toni herself is
a 2004 graduate of the Leadership
Orange program, which is dedicated
to the discovery and development of
community leaders in Orange
County, NY. She is a Program
Coordinator at the Marist Fishkill
Executive Center, where she
manages the OLC (Organizational
Leadership and Communication)
program.
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Center for Lifetime Study
The Marist Center for Lifetime
Study provides opportunities for
intellectual and cultural
exploration and development
for men and women of
retirement age. CLS
furnishes a rewarding
experience of learning and
fellowship in a relaxed
atmosphere without exams or
grades. Currently 525 members
enjoy courses, trips, and social
events held in various locations.
The Center is a volunteer
membership-run organization.
Courses are offered in the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and
general sciences and are taught
by CLS members, college
faculty, or community leaders.
For more information contact :
Jodi Delahoyde at 845.575.3000
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Honor Society - Alpha Sigma Lambda
Marist
College
has been a
chartered
chapter
since 1981
Since 1981, Marist College has
been a chartered chapter of the
Alpha Sigma Lambda National
Honor Society. This honor
society recognizes the
outstanding achievements of
adult students who accomplish
academic excellence while
balancing the multiple
responsibilities of home,
family, career, community and
education. Unique in its
concepts and creation, Alpha
Sigma Lambda goals are
unique as well. It strives to
provide stimulating momentum
to highly motivated adult
students of higher education
during their academic career.
In the winter of 1945-46, Dr.
Rollin B. Posey, Dean of the
University College of
Northwestern University,
realized that a measurement of
encouragement and recognition
accorded an evening student’s
scholastic achievement at an
early stage of his/her program
could provide the thrust of
desire to achieve his/her
educational objectives. Dr.
Posey founded a society, Alpha
Sigma Lambda, to honor those
dedicated adult students who,
while skillfully handling their
life responsibilities, achieve
and maintain high scholastic
standards. In 2009, Marist
College was honored to induct
79 adult students into the Alpha
Sigma Lambda National Honor
Society.
The 28th Induction Ceremony
of Alpha Sigma Lambda will
be held in early May 2010.
Graduate Studies in Fishkill
The Marist School of
Management offers both
Master of Business
Administration and Master
of Public Administration
classes in Fishkill for students
looking to do graduate work
in an evening on-ground
format. While some
graduate students enjoy
the convenience of doing
their graduate work
online, other students
The Navigator
living locally, prefer the
interaction of a classroom
setting in the professional
atmosphere of the Fishkill
Executive Center. Many
Marist Fishkill graduate
students do not limit
themselves to one or the
other, but take advantage of
the option of combining onground and online classes to
have the best of both worlds.
Starting in August 2010,
Marist will offer an MBA for
Accountants that will fulfill
the requirements for licensure
as a Certified Public
Accountant. The first course
will take place on the
Poughkeepsie campus, with
subsequent courses taking
place during the day in the
Fishkill center.
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Bring a Friend to Class
The School of Global &
Professional Programs at the
Fishkill Executive Center
hosted a new initiative
entitled Bring a Friend to
Class Week. During the
weeks of November 30th
and December 7th, students
in the BA Psychology and
BS in Organizational
Leadership &
Communication programs
were invited to bring a
friend to class. Both guests
and students enjoyed the
opportunity to share
firsthand the experience of
these exciting programs.
Look for other exciting
events in the future.
Student Spotlight
Marist College student, Master
Sergeant Dion is currently in his
second Middle East deployment
within two years. This deployment,
however, won’t keep him from
completing his Bachelor’s degree in
2010. He has been working steadily
on completing this degree since the
Fall of 2004 when he joined Cohort
7 of the B.S. in Liberal Studies
degree completion program for IBM
employees at the Marist Fishkill
Center. He has completed a class
every ten weeks, with the exception
of last fall, when he was deployed as
part of Operation Iraqi Freedom in
Baghdad from September 2008
through January of 2009. During
this deployment, he’ll use whatever
free time he has to work on a three
credit Independent study, so that his
planned 2010 graduation won’t slip.
Master Sergeant Dion has been in
the National Guard for 23 years,
joining the Vermont Army National
Guard in September of 1986 and
graduating from High School in June
1987. After serving in both
Operation Desert Shield and Desert
Storm, he returned to Vermont and
became one of the “Green Mountain
Boys” of the Vermont Air National
Guard. After his transfer from IBM
Burlington to IBM East Fishkill in
April of 2002, he joined the New
York Air National Guard in March
2003 and now serves in the 105th
Civil Engineers in the Electrical
Shop at the Stewart International
Guard base.
Master Sergeant Dion has
high expectations for his
children. Understanding the
importance of an education,
he says” I believe in
leadership by example and
“ I believe in
without a Bachelor’s
leadership by
degree, I cannot push my
children in that direction.”
example and
After completing an
without a
Associate’s degree in
Bachelor’s
Electrical and Electronics
Engineering Technology at
degree, I
Vermont Technical
cannot push
College he thought a two
my children in
year degree was all he
needed and wanted. He
that direction”
now says, “Little did I
know how difficult it
would be as a husband,
father, employee and a
soldier to finish a
Bachelor’s degree. After a
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Student Spotlight continued
while in the Middle East.”
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15 year break, and five
committed years of classes,
mixed in with several
military deployments, I will
finally finish my degree
International Guard base,
and his son, following in
The Ulster County resident Master Sergeant Dion’s
is married with a 19 year old footsteps, has also served in
son and a 14 year old
Air National Guard for the
daughter. The military is a past two years.
Dion family affair. His wife
works at Stewart
Master Sergeant Dion’s long
journey toward his
Bachelor’s degree at Marist
College has given him the
appreciation of a quote by
Galileo; “You cannot teach a
man anything; you can only
help him find it within
himself.”
“You cannot
teach a man
anything: you
can only help
him find it
within himself”
- Galileo
Marist College’s best wishes
follow Master Sergeant to
the Middle East.
From the Editor
I am currently the Assistant
Director of Student Services
for the School of Global &
Professional Programs. I
have previously served as the
student services coordinator
for one of our bachelor
degree completion programs.
another one this coming Fall
2010.
undergraduate and graduate
students the evening of
Friday, May 21st. With the
Coming up the first week of growing number of adults
May, there will be another
completing their degree, the
induction to the adult honor separate ceremony allows for
society, Alpha Sigma
a more adult centered
Lambda. This will be the
and personalized event. I
28th induction of the Eta
encourage all upcoming
Writing this section brings
Gamma chapter at Marist
graduates to attend with
me much pleasure as it marks College and I look forward to their families and
the third installment of our
celebrating this
friends.
School’s newsletter. Having accomplishment with our
worked at Marist for the last adult undergraduate student Thank you to all the
seven and half years,
contributors to this
population.
particularly with adult
Spring 2010 newsletter,
students, this is a step closer As the Spring semester
this would not have
comes to an end, I always
to bringing news and
come together without
look forward to the beautiful you.
information to our adult
commencement ceremony on
student population. In the
the campus green. This will Please contact me with
last year, I have helped
any comments or questions at
launch a more comprehensive mark the 6th year of an
independent
graduation
Jennifer.Becker@marist.edu
adult undergraduate
ceremony
held
for
all
adult
orientation with plans for
Jenn Becker
Editor