News and Awards
Front Row, from left: Paul DeLisio, Past Executive Director Lorraine Salmon, Darlene Pfeiffer, Dr. Alan Roberts, Linda Bradford, Foundation Board Chair Laurel Sweeney, Donna Croce, Chief of Staff Jenn Zell. Back Row, from left: Trustee Emeritus Tim Sweeney, Patrick Zell.
Hudson Valley Press: Program Receives a $1 Million Endowment Gift
STONE RIDGE – SUNY Ulster is proud to announce the SUNY Ulster President’s Challenge Scholarship in Honor of President Emeritus Robert T. Brown, is the recipient of a $1,000,000 gift from SUNY Ulster’s champion and most prolific donor, Ms. Darlene L. Pfeiffer. “Giving is living. The more we give, the more we live, and we live eternally.” said Darlene. Read Article
Shawangunk Journal: SUNY Ulster Mentors Middle Schoolers to Fulfill College Dreams Financial Support Still Needed
by Max Freebern
NEW YORK – Excluding the especially eager students, most middle and high schoolers are not planning
and preparing for their college careers until late in the game. Reaching higher education
can be especially tricky for children who plan to be the first in their family to
graduate from college. Read Article
STONE RIDGE, N.Y. A longtime prolific donor to SUNY Ulster has given $1 million to a college scholarship program.
Darlene L. Pfeiffer has made the donation to the SUNY Ulster President’s Challenge Scholarship. It is among $2.8 million that Pfeiffer has donated to the college in support of students.
“Giving is living. The more we give, the more we live, and we live eternally.” Pfeiffer said in a prepared statement. Read Article >>>
SUNY Ulster has been named the Ulster County Business of the Year for 2020.
"The college is being honored in part for beginning SUNY Ulster's President's Challenge Scholarship, which identifies talented eighth-graders who would be the first from their families to attend college and pays their tuition for them if they continue along that path, the chamber said ..." Read Article >>>
The President’s Challenge Scholarship (PCS) Program at SUNY Ulster assists first-generation local students with overcoming socio-economic barriers associated with attending college. Selected in eighth grade, students receive counseling and mentoring throughout high school.
The PCS College Mentor team, comprised of SUNY Ulster’s Enrollment and Success Center Counselors, is charged with supporting nearly 100 scholarship recipients from nine school districts across Ulster County. Their primary goal as mentors is to be a consistent resource for students – keeping them motivated and on the college-bound track. Read Article >>>
Early Intervention – Creating Belief in the Eighth Grade
By Lorraine Salmon
Johnson Scholarship Foundation Website | Posted: 07/20/20
STONE RIDGE, N.Y. In 2015, the sixth and newest president of SUNY Ulster, Dr. Alan P. Roberts, arrived at SUNY Ulster with an inspirational plan to reach eighth-grade students and to engage them in college during grades nine to 12. Embarking on a bold plan of early intervention to reach all nine school districts in Ulster County, President Roberts engaged the Ulster College Foundation, Inc. in rolling out the pilot plan for the President’s Challenge Scholarship in 2016. Read Article >>>
11 Rondout Valley students get free tuition to SUNY Ulster
By Ariél Zangla, azangla@freemanonline.com
Daily Freeman Online | Posted: 05/20/17, 10:50 AM EDT
STONE RIDGE, N.Y. The question of whether they can afford college has been answered for nearly a dozen Rondout Valley school students thanks to donations from community members. Through the SUNY Ulster President’s Challenge Scholarship, 11 students will be able to attend the college in Stone Ridge for two years without having to pay their own tuition. Read Article >>>
Rondout Valley CSD creates school-to-college pipeline
On Board Online | January 23, 2017
By Merri Rosenberg, Special Correspondent
What's the most disheartening thing that students can say about their future? That they don't think they have one. Rosario Agostaro, superintendent in the Rondout Valley school district, has heard such sentiments. Some students have told him that they "weren't going to be successful" or "weren't going to make it in life." It might have something to do with the fact that 45 percent of the families in his Ulster County district live below the federal poverty level. Read Article >>>
