The Suffolk Community College Foundation will honor the Frey family at its Gala.

The Suffolk Community College Foundation will honor the Frey family of Belle Terre, New York, at the Salute to Excellence Gala being held at the Hilton Long Island in Huntington on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Dr. Robert J. Frey currently serves as the Secretary of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. He is a Research Professor at Stony Brook University and director of the program in quantitative finance in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Among other business interests, he serves as CEO of FQS Capital Partners, Ltd., an investment management firm based in New York and London, and is the CEO of Harbor Financial Management, his family office. His charitable activities include service on the boards of the Guardian Angels, Hope House Ministries, the Museum of Mathematics and the Stony Brook Foundation. The gala will benefit the Suffolk Community College Foundation, a designated 501(c)(3) non profit corporation formed to foster student success and advance academic excellence. Philanthropic gifts made to the Foundation funded scholarships to more than 550 Suffolk students last year and totaled upwards of $600,000. For more information about the gala and ways to support Suffolk students, please visit sunysuffolk.edu/gala.

Veterans Resource Centers

As a way to provide enhanced services to student veterans, Suffolk will be opening Veterans Resource Centers on each campus this spring. Among other things, these centers will serve as central locations where veterans can receive information about the GI Bill and tuition assistance benefits. The centers will also be a single point of contact between the College and outside community organizations that serve veterans. In all, the College currently serves approximately 700 student veterans.

School of Sharks: Introducing Finn

Suffolk proudly welcomes Finn, the first mascot in the history of the College. Finn reflects the culture, pride and energy inherent at Suffolk. Finn will be an integral part of the College’s athletics program and will be an active presence within the many communities that Suffolk serves. “With more than 115,000 alumni and 26,000 students, we are more than a school of sharks,” says Dr. Shaun L. McKay, President of Suffolk County Community College. “We are an island of sharks. We are omnipresent. We are powerful. We are leaders.”

Lights, Camera, Action: New TV Production Vehicle

This past fall, Suffolk County Community College took possession of an advanced mobile production vehicle that will allow students in its Radio and Television Production Program to produce live-to-web programs in an environment identical to what would be found in real-world mobile TV production. The state-of-the-art vehicle was outfitted by Dave Haralambou, a Suffolk graduate and owner of By Request Communications, based in Malborough, Massachusetts.

“The new vehicle is a unique piece of teaching equipment unlike anything on any SUNY campus,” says Alan Bernstein, Assistant Academic Chair and Professor of Radio and TV Production. The van will allow Suffolk students to produce up to four live web broadcasts each semester, including concerts, athletics and commencement ceremonies.

Success Doesn’t Stop for Summer

Summer sessions at Suffolk allow college students to build on what they’ve been learning while moving along a fast track to graduation. Studies even show that students who take classes year-round are three times more likely to graduate. High school students can also get a jump-start by taking their first college classes in the summer at Suffolk. Suffolk’s credits transfer to SUNY schools, as well as many private four-year colleges and universities. For more about earning college credits during Suffolk’s summer sessions, please call 631-451-4111 or visit sunysuffolk.edu/Enroll.

Suffolk Campuses Go Tobacco-Free

In order to provide a clean and healthy environment for all students, employees and visitors, Suffolk is proud to announce that it has implemented a tobacco-free policy that:

• Protects Suffolk students, faculty, staff and visitors from unwanted and involuntary exposure to tobacco and passive smoke
• Prohibits the use of all tobacco and tobacco-derived products on all College grounds
• Provides resources for tobacco users to get the help they need to quit for good

Resources and full details are available at sunysuffolk.edu/tobaccofree.