Suffolk County Community College Entrepreneurial Assistance Center (EAC) has won the 2024 New York State Entrepreneurship Assistance Center Award for Outstanding Performance and Achievement. The college received an award at the Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino in Niagara Falls, NY on October 10, 2024.
The Brentwood Islanders Lions Club successfully collected food donations at the Bay Shore ShopRite, providing much-needed support to students facing food insecurity. All contributions were delivered to the Suffolk County Community College Michael J. Grant Campus food pantry in Brentwood.
Stefanie Karayoff, a Suffolk County Community College student and a resident of Ronkonkoma, has been awarded admission into the prestigious EF Future Nobel Laureates Scholarship Program. Created with the Nobel Prize Museum and the Forum on Education Abroad, this student program is fueled by the belief that in order to change the world, students need to experience it.
The Renewable Energy/STEM Center on Suffolk County Community College's Michael J. Grant Campus in Brentwood recently won a Gold Award for Sustainable Architecture at the 2024 Global Future Design Awards. The architect/designer for this building was AECOM.
Suffolk County Community College recently hosted a press conference to announce the successful implementation of SUNY's Advancing Success in Associate Pathways (ASAP) program on its three Suffolk County campuses. Suffolk's program launch is part of a broader initiative involving introduction of this program at 25 SUNY-affiliated institutions across the State. This innovative program is modeled after the City University of New York's (CUNY) ASAP. Since its inception in 2007, CUNY's ASAP program has served over 90,000 students and has been replicated across seven states due to its proven effectiveness in increasing student completion rates and narrowing opportunity gaps.