VOLUME 23
NUMBER 5
Nov. 3, 1999
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Enrollment Soars For On-Line Courses, 
Up 237% This Year 
   Enrollment in the State University's Distance Learning Network soared to 5,600 students this fall, an increase of 237% over last year's enrollment of 2,360, SUNY Board Chairman Thomas Egan announced at the October 26 meeting of the Board of Trustees. 
    “The SUNY Learning Network continues to be the gold standard for on-line distance learning courses across the country,” said Egan. “This tremendous boom in enrollment is testimony to the scope and quality of our on-line courses. I am pleased that so many people from so many different places around the world are taking advantage of the excellence in higher education offered at the State University of New York.” 
    The enrollment growth comes as the State University and its 64 campuses have doubled the number of on-line courses from 500 last year to 1,000 in the 1999-2000 academic year. The number and variety of courses make it the most-comprehensive system in the country.
 
McMahon Named Vice Chancellor for External Affairs
   The State University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Edmund J. McMahon, Jr., a former newspaper reporter with extensive public and private sector experience in strategic communications and policy analysis, as vice chancellor for external affairs.
    McMahon - also known as “E.J.,” from his byline with the Albany Knickerbocker News and Times Union - has served for the past year as senior policy adviser to Assembly Minority Leader John J. Faso. He brings a diversified background in communications, public relations and policy development, including senior management experience in the legislative and executive branches of New York State government.
Fall Progress
    Rockefeller College Sewers and Storm Drains: The University plans to upgrade sewer and storm drain systems serving several buildings on the Rockefeller College campus next summer. The $1.2 million project, now in design phase, will separate the sanitary and storm drains serving Page, Milne and Richardson Halls, as well as improve foundation drainage. 

    Life Sciences Building: Design work for this $66 million project is about 35 percent complete. Bids will be sought in late spring, with construction scheduled to start in the summer of 2000. 

    University Police Department Headquarters: The frame of the new University Police Department building, located on the east side of campus, is now being closed in. The roof is also going on in preparation for interior work through the winter. Utilities to the new building will be carried under Perimeter Road early in November, with traffic expected to be reduced to one lane at certain times to accommodate the work. The $2.6 million project is scheduled for completion next summer.

    Dutch Quad Paving: The Plant Department is completing foundation and paving work designed to provide a "seamless" route into the Dutch Quad courtyard for wheelchairs and service vehicles. The work also includes replacement of wooden ramps with concrete access areas. The project is expected to serve as a prototype at the other quads, where concrete and foundations have also settled over the years. 
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