Part 1: Campus Profile - SUNY Cobleskill

SUNY Cobleskill Facilities Master Plan – Phase 1 Report
November 2011
ACADEMIC GOALS & DIRECTIONS
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F – ACADEMIC GOALS AND DIRECTIONS
SUNY Cobleskill is comprised academically of three schools: the School
of Agriculture and Natural Resources; the School of Business; and the
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The College offers 31 Associate and
19 Baccalaureate degrees.
SUNY Cobleskill prides itself on small class sizes to ensure that students
receive individual attention from the school’s accomplished professors.
During the first year at SUNY Cobleskill, all students are enrolled in a
one-credit course, Foundations for College Success. The course is
designed to help smooth the transition of new students from high school
to college life. Through this course, students become familiarized with
the campus services, develop new study and research skills, and learn to
make connections between their studies and future career goals.
Technologies and Culinary Arts, Hospitality, and Tourism. Various other
programs rely heavily on the use of such technology.
While most of the online courses offered in 2006 were associated
primarily with Early Childhood Education and Business Administration,
offerings have expanded to include courses in English, Culinary Arts,
Communications, Math, Humanities, Economics, Animal Science, among
others. Many of the courses offered during the summer session are
available online, and these have proven to be popular with students.
While the online course offerings are diverse, the number of courses
offered online during the regular terms is relatively small. Only eight
were offered in fall 2010, and 14 are scheduled for the spring session.
The common theme among all of SUNY Cobleskill’s academic programs
is “Real Life: Real Learning,” or the combination of theoretical knowledge
with hands-on experience. A number of “real-life” laboratories are
available on campus: a dairy barn, an equestrian center, greenhouses,
a heavy equipment laboratory, a fish hatchery, a restaurant, a catering
kitchen and two production kitchens, a travel center, a child care center
and a child development center, a television studio, a histotechnology
laboratory, and network labs. The College will continue to invest in
strategies to support a high quality, hands-on learning experience.
SUNY Cobleskill’s “Hands-On”
Learning
For the convenience of its nontraditional students, the College also offers
a Saturday College, a degree program offered exclusively on Saturdays.
The Saturday College responds to the needs of working adults, while
upholding the academic quality, values, and expectations of the State
University of New York. Two eight-week sessions are scheduled each
semester—a full-time student can earn a bachelor degree in five years
or an associate’s degree in two and a half years. Tutors are available
on Saturdays for academic support, and optional weekend housing and
meals can be provided at an additional cost.
INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY
A continuing priority of the College is to have programs and learning
environments that are engaging and transformational for both students
and faculty. This emphasis requires attention to both discipline-specific
learning environments that simulate “real life” as well as technologies that
encompass “real learning.” In 2006, 30 of SUNY Cobleskill’s classrooms
and all of its lecture halls were considered ”smart”, and “smart carts”
were available for use in unwired classrooms or class labs. Two major
programs require students to have notebook computers—Computer
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