“It’s all about making money, but you have to love what you do,” said Mickey Jamal as 300 eager business students listened intently while many frantically jotted down notes. Oct. 27 marked the first ever “Business Leaders of the 21st Century” lecture and Q&A held on campus. Students flocked to […]
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Author and multimedia journalist Alissa Quart will join the SUNY New Paltz faculty in spring 2015 as this year’s James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism. She will teach an upper-level journalism seminar, “Narrative Nonfiction in the Digital Age.” Quart is currently the co-editor of Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a non-profit […]
Michelle Walsh, owner of the Mudd Puddle Cafe, got into her car in a panic and headed over to the Rite Aid on Main Street one Friday morning to purchase a pay-back money card for the coffee shop’s electric bill. Little did she know, she was about to fall […]
Kevin Halcott was hired as a dishwasher and busboy at the Main St. Bistro in New Paltz, N.Y. after dealing with a struggle many Americans know all too well: unemployment. The 26 year-old of Ulster County resident was unemployed from August of 2013 to February of 2014. “I did a […]
