FSC Receives $975K from SUNY’s Performance Improvement Fund
December 11, 2017
FSC has received nearly $975,000 in grants from SUNY’s Performance Improvement Fund.
The funding will be applied to six projects, ranging from the new Nexus Center to Medical Laboratory Technology.
“This funding will help Farmingdale advance our work in the area of applied learning, expand our capacity for program delivery, meet programmatic challenges, and develop academic programs in areas designated as high needs,” said Dr. Laura Joseph,
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
The six projects include:
- Nexus Center for Applied Learning and Career Development: Create the Nexus Center for Applied Leaning and Career Development to form stronger connections between the areas of Career Development and Applied Learning.
- Capacity Building through Distance and Hybrid Learning: Enhance student success, retention and completion through widening choices of quality alternative course modalities to enhance degree attainment.
- Joint Campus Curriculum Development FSC/Old Westbury: Implement five-year joint undergraduate/graduate degrees of existing and future programs, thereby economizing cost and student time to completion.
- Computer Science Program: Launch BS in Computer Science (high needs) that is delivered in a flexible format and offers students the ability to study in traditional, hybrid, streaming and online formats.
- Medical Laboratory Technology Curriculum Enhancement: To develop a program that recruits clinical laboratory internship sites in Upstate New York and the metropolitan NYC area.
- Transportation Track in Master’s Technology Management: Extend MS Technology Management program by adding a transportation track to the current Construction Management and Electrical/Mechanical tracks.
