Stony Brook Alumni are rolling in it. Stony Brook University is the highest ranked SUNY campus in the 2010-2011 PayScale College Salary Report, an annual ranking of universities based on the mid-career salaries of its graduates. This year’s report places Stony Brook 23rd out of 374 state schools nationwide, good enough for the top seven [...]

Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley joined the growing list of university presidents and administrators calling for the passage of the DREAM Act. In letters to Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C), President Stanley joins the presidents of the Universities of Buffalo and Rochester; Cornell, Fordham, Syracuse and New York Universities; and the [...]

In early April, a group of 30 census workers spent four days filling out official, constitutionally mandated census forms for the campus’ 9,000 residents.

Yet despite the massive undertaking, there was never any disclosure made to the students that the census was being filled out on their behalf.

The impact that Apple’s latest gizmo will have on education is yet to be seen. But barely two weeks since we got our hands on a device, its clear that the iPad has the potential to fundamentally change how students attend college.

  Additional reporting by Katie Watt  Facing yet another round of state budget cuts, Stony Brook University took the drastic step of announcing that by summer’s end, the Stony Brook Southampton campus would no longer operate as a semi-independent college, leaving the school’s 500 students to find a new university by the fall.  “Everything will [...]

The Statesman, Stony Brook University’s oldest newspaper dating back to the Oyster Bay campus in the late 1950s, is facing the biggest cut in USG funding in it’s 53 year history. The Undergraduate Student Government budget for the 2010-2011 academic year, which was approved by the Senate Tuesday evening, reduces the Statesman’s USG line budget [...]

The new dorm will likely be named for Chen Ning Yang, a distinguished professor emeritus and a winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Days after staging protests on campus as part of the national March 4 Day of Action, a small group of students sat down in the hallway outside of President Stanley’s office and begged passersby for spare change to cover the rising costs of tuition.

Video from Stony Brook University’s March 4 Day of Action.

Why is SBVAC treated not as a public service but as a student club, and why are undergraduate students disproportionately responsible for it’s funding?