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Fredonia to replace department chairs and dean

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Reading Time: 3 minutesFredonia will be getting rid of the “department chairs and deans” system and moving toward a new system created by the Academic Affairs Structural Realignment Working Group (AASRWG).  In an email to Fredonia faculty and staff, President Stephen Kolison said campus feedback showed the strongest interest in two of the proposed models....
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Sidewalk outside Science Center, Houghton Hall crumbling

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJasper Bateman DEI Chair Photo by IZZIE NOELLE| Photo Editor The walkway between Houghton Hall, the Science Center and McEwen Hall is crumbling and splitting apart into jagged edges, causing students to trip over it.  “I personally have become victim of this multiple times,” said sophomore geology major Sam Post.  Dr. Thomas Hegna, chair of the geology and environmental science department, stated that the walkway is made of Pennsylvania Bluestone.  Pennsylvania Bluestone is a fine-grained sandstone, making it porous and less resistant to certain climate conditions. Specifically, Pennsylvania Bluestone is vulnerable to wet-to-dry and freezing-to-thawing cycles, which Western New York is known for.  This causes the walkway and the stone to start breaking.  ......
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Office of International Education commemorates International Study Abroad Day

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEMILY SCHULTZ-CONE  Special to The Leader  If you are a student looking to study outside the country, it is never too early to start planning.  On Monday, Feb. 23, SUNY Fredonia’s Office of International Education (OIE) celebrated International Study Abroad Day.  At Fredonia, nearly 10% of students will study abroad in their college career, and the OIE is designed to help students plan for their experience.  Jessica Gatto, the......

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