{"id":11339,"date":"2017-06-19T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:49:46","slug":"president-nader-speaks-with-pride-about-fsc-at-limba-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2017\/06\/19\/president-nader-speaks-with-pride-about-fsc-at-limba-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"President Nader Beams with Pride about FSC at LIMBA  Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Powered by Optimism&#8221; was the theme last week when President Nader addressed dozens of L.I. business people at a meeting of LIMBA (Long Island Metro Business Action).<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, Dr. Nader expounded on the positive changes, achievements, and initiatives taking place at FSC.\u00a0 They included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The College&#8217;s outstanding track record of placing graduates into jobs, particularly jobs in their fields and in the Long Island metro area.<\/li>\n<li>The fact that Farmingdale has the second-highest undergraduate enrollment of any L.I. four-year college, second only to Stony Brook University.<\/li>\n<li>The diversity at FSC, with 36% of the student body comprised of minority and international students.<\/li>\n<li>FSC&#8217;s annual STEM conference, which seeks to encourage middle- and high school students to study in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.<\/li>\n<li>The two new degree program debuting this fall &#8211; the MS in Technology Management and the BT in Interaction Design.<\/li>\n<li>Plans for an Applied Social Sciences building.<\/li>\n<li>The development of new bachelor&#8217;s programs in Sustainable Energy Technology; Computer Security Technology; Geographic Information Systems; Criminal Justice, Police, Court, and Corrections; and Nutrition Science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11346\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11346\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11346 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/Nader-at-LIMBA-mtng..-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Ken Nevor, LIMBA member; Bill Miller, Treasurer; President Nader; Steven Ferentinos, FSC student; and Ernie Fazio, Chairman.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Powered by Optimism&#8221; was the theme last week when President Nader addressed dozens of L.I. business people at a meeting of LIMBA (Long Island Metro Business Action). At the meeting, Dr. Nader expounded on the positive changes, achievements, and initiatives taking place at FSC.\u00a0 They included: The College&#8217;s outstanding track record of placing graduates into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":11357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11339"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11355,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions\/11355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}