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Book cover of Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Alice Wong speaks on the urgency of disability activism at the Humanities Institute

Michelle Chen October 31, 2021
The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook hosted disability rights activist Alice Wong to speak about issues affecting disabled communities like the climate crisis, discrimination and media representation on Oct. 7.
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The COVID-19 virus. PUBLIC DOMAIN

SBU hosts live panel on the coronavirus

Rabia Gursoy March 14, 2020
Interim President Michael Bernstein hosted a panel on the coronavirus, streamed live on Stony Brook University’s Facebook page, on March 13.
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The logo for Stony Brook's Undergraduate Student Government (USG). STATESMAN FILE

USG urges students to participate in annual Higher Education Action Day

Maya Brown February 18, 2020
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff from both the SUNY and CUNY systems are expected to meet with New York legislators to ask for more funding on Higher Education Action Day.
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University Senate reviews independent budget report

University Senate reviews independent budget report

Samantha Robinson March 6, 2019
An independent budget report discovered that Stony Brook has had a positive net cash flow for the past 10 years.
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Like other workplace environments, academia is rampant with cases of sexual harassment. ARACELY JIMENEZ/THE STATESMAN

In light of #MeToo, female faculty at SBU grapple with a history of harassment in higher education

Rebecca Liebson February 12, 2018
Because pursuing a criminal case requires an extensive amount of evidence, Complainant Navigator for the Center for Prevention and Outreach Samantha Winter said that many people choose not to go to the police.
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The Humanities building on Stony Brook University's campus is home to the European Languages department, a program that has been cosolidated along with two others in lieu of budget cuts. NINA LIN/STATESMAN FILE

Humanities professors petition for more hires

Katherine Kurre February 25, 2013
NYSUNY 2020 is a program implemented in the summer of 2011 primarily targeted to four SUNY schools: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook. This program was designed to aid in standardizing tuition hikes for five years as well as helping the economic and academic growth in New York State.
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