Streamlining Higher Education: Strategic Engagement & Retention Initiative

New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal
Streamlining Higher Education | Strategic Engagement & Retention Initiative 03 March 2013
Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013
Recipient : Mr. Peter C. Kinney III, Chief of Staff New York Institute of Technology | Circa 2013
Date: 03.03.13
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR REFLECTIONS FROM A STUDENT PURPOSE OF DETERMINATION PREFACE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ABSTRACT EPILOGUE ENDORSEMENT CONTACT I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
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THE GATES OF ANTIQUITY OUR AUDACIOUS LEGACY OUR AUDACIOUS LEGACY (CONTINUED) PROPOSED ORGANIZATION HISTORY & TRADITION: SIGNAGE INITIATIVE HISTORY & TRADITION: WEBPAGE INTEGRATION HISTORY & TRADITION: FACULTY & STAFF INCORPORATION HISTORY & TRADITION: ATHLETICS INTEGRATION HISTORY & TRADITION: ATHLETICS INTEGRATION IMPLEMENTATION OF A UNIVERSITY MOTTO REVITALIZATION OF THE OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY SEAL REVITALIZATION OF THE OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY SEAL (CONTINUED) OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY SEAL EXHIBIT
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY SEAL EXHIBIT (CONTINUED) OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY SEAL EXHIBIT (CONTINUED) PROPOSED SEAL REDESIGN CONCEPT (OBVERSE) PROPOSED SEAL REDESIGN CONCEPT (REVERSE) CONCEPT SEAL EXHIBIT (CONTINUED) CONCEPT SEAL EXHIBIT (CONTINUED) CONCEPT SEAL EXHIBIT (CONTINUED) COMPREHENSIVE SEAL EXHIBIT (CONTINUED) IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY SONG IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY SONG (CONTINUED) IMPROVED MASCOT VISIBILITY ON CAMPUSES REIMPLEMENTATION OF THE ESTATE YEARBOOK CREATION OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON RETENTION, ENROLLMENT, & RESEARCH
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CREATION OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON RETENTION, ENROLLMENT, & RESEARCH (CONTINUED) THE TWO CONUNDRUMS: RETENTION & AFFINITY THE TWO CONUNDRUMS: RETENTION & AFFINITY (CONTINUED) A TARGETED & DELIBERATE APPROACH TO RETENTION A TARGETED & DELIBERATE APPROACH TO RETENTION (CONTINUED) A TARGETED & DELIBERATE APPROACH TO RETENTION (CONTINUED) THE PURDISH REALITY OF NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEW STUDENT PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME REDESIGN NEW STUDENT PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME REDESIGN (CONTINUED) NYIT 2030 & THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDENT CONTRIBUTION ARTICULATING THE BRAND OF NYIT ARTICULATING THE BRAND OF NYIT (CONTINUED) ARTICULATING THE BRAN OF NYIT (CONTINUED
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ARTICULATING THE BRAND OF NYIT (CONTINUED) NYIT DIPLOMA REDESGIN & ANALYSIS NYIT DIPLOMA REDESGIN & ANALYSIS (CONTINUED) NYIT DIPLOMA REDESIGN & ANALYSIS (CONTINUED JUXTAPOSE TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY DIPLOMA JUXTAPOSE TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DIPLOMA JUXTAPOSE TO UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DIPLOMA JUXTAPOSE TO MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) DIPLOMA PROPOSED NYIT DIPLOMA REDESIGN CONCEPT PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTATION (CONTINUED) CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS (CONTINUED)
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About the Author

When Determination Leads to Innovation
Very few have been able to impact people, groups and communities like Brandon Llone has. His determination to reach his full potential, as well as his ambition to be successful, led to his commitment to public service and his ultimate goal of enhancing the well being of others. As a senior at New York Institute of Technology who has worked for the Office of Student Affairs for nearly three years, he was provided the opportunity to hone his skills in strategic competency, organizational development, and supervision. Brandon has outstanding professional demeanor, attention to detail, and familiarity with team-oriented environments. Born on a United States Army installation in Germany into a military family, and living in more than 16 states, Brandon was able to volunteer for numerous federal policy initiatives and service groups. Through constantly interacting with many different people and performing multiple tasks under time constraints, Brandon gained three essential qualities to succeed in this fast changing global marketplace: a strong sense of responsibility, a problem-solving mindset, and team spirit. His friends and colleagues regard him as one of the most insightful, charismatic, and compassionate individuals in our community today. Aside from NYIT, Brandon resides in San Antonio, Texas. He currently works as a volunteer at a public service group in Fort Sam Houston, and interns for United States Senator Ted Cruz.
About the Author: When Determination Leads to Innovation
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Reflections From a Student

Realizing the Promise of Greatness
As the four years of my undergraduate experience quickly draw down, and with commencement on the horizon, I wanted to dedicate this piece of work to NYIT students past, present, and future. I spent nearly four years in Student Affairs and I was fortunate to serve in multiple roles with a recurring fundamental purpose: build a community dedicated to fostering student success while creating inclusiveness in our community. From my time on the Student Government Association, Campus Programming Board, Student Ambassador Association, Orientation Leader to Admitted Students, First Year Advisor to New Students, Resident Assistant and Head Resident Assistant for Residential Life, I utilized my daily experience in reflective dialogue with my peers to determine what areas we could improve on. Through this proposal, I made that experience and those determinations for improvement, a tangible reflection. There has never been a more dynamic period at New York Institute of Technology as we take steps to achieve lofty goalsand our efforts are paying off. Our global community is working together to create a university where education is second to none and groundbreaking research flourishes. The support of our alumni and friends makes this possible. Everywhere you look the University is being reinvigoratedthanks to this investment in our students, faculty, programs, and facilitiesand we are taking advantage of this ambition to further accelerate our progress.
This is an exciting time to be a NYiT student we are on the move.
Brandon Chase Llone, Author
Reflections From a Student: Realizing the Promise of Greatness
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Purpose of Determination
Streamlining Affinity | Blending Corporate Presence | Evolving Global Identity
My purpose for creating this proposal stems from the impact of shared experience within our community. In our global community, we share common experiences that connect us to each other, our alma mater, and most significantly, to NYIT. The importance of continuity and shared experiences among students, past and present, cannot be overestimated. My purpose for writing such an ambition is to propose initiatives that better connect students to NYIT, expand inclusiveness by blending our corporate presence, and promote affinity in our global community by connecting us to our past history and tradition. My ultimate goal is to have NYITs retention rate above 90% - a very ambitious and boundless goal. We are all bound to those of yesteryear in spirit, but today's NYIT sees little of their lost legacy. Our hearts were made with the same unwavering spirits as those of our alma mater, and it is that very notion that guides us and leads our global community. While we may be a global institution, with diverse students and campuses all over the world, we are united not only by educational pursuits, but by our unfaltering pride and dedication to one another. Pictured Left is current NYIT President and CEO, Dr. Edward Guiliano at NYITs annual Mayfest celebration held in May of each year. Dr. Guiliano is pictured here watching his students have fun just before final exam week begins for the college.
Purpose of Det ermination: | Streamlining Aff inity | Blending Corporate Presence | | Evolving Global Identity |
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Preface
Heritage | Tradition | Birthright
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) has a long history of working with students across the globe to articulate the aims of a career-oriented professional education in our time. NYIT and its history are profoundly distinctive as an admired and respected institution of higher education. Its mission focuses centrally on the quality of student learning and the changing purpose and nature of post-secondary curricula. Recently, as NYITs population has become increasingly diverse, our traditions must transition to create a more inclusive environment for students. For the sake of correcting, strengthening, and preserving these rituals and all the positive contributions they have to offer, NYITs leaders must also recognize the faults related to the absence of tradition and history. In 1913, The New York Times posted an article about colleges lively and numerous student traditions and how those traditions enhanced student identity, pride, & retention. Fast forward nearly a 100 years, however, and those self-same traditions have largely faded into obscurity. History and traditions have long played an instrumental role on college campuses through their ability to build community, connect students with the heritage of their alma mater, and develop institutional pride. The question facing many NYIT students today is: What particular heritage they are entitled to as the life-blood of this institution? This proposal seeks to offer NYITs leaders suggestions for ways our campus history and traditions may be initiated, strengthened, and preserved, thus improving NYITs global community. Pictured above is NYITs founder and first President, Dr. Alexander Schure speaking at a commencement ceremony in the late 1950s.
Preface: Heritage | Tradition | Birthright
Executive Summary
Statement of Purpose
The objective of this proposal is to better facilitate the needs of students at New York Institute of Technology, specifically regarding the role of history and tradition within the New York Institute of Technology and its global campuses. New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) seeks to provide a positive community environment that enhances students overall learning, personal development and academic success. This proposal seeks to build upon that very distinction by offering substantial additions to NYIT dedicated to fostering student success and creating an inclusive community across all campuses and sites throughout the world, with the enduring hope that students will find life outside the classroom to be an equally rich and rewarding experience.
Goal
The primary goal of this proposal is to restructure the way that New York Institute of Technology categorizes and facilitates tradition and campus history itself. Additionally, this proposal also seeks to realign this by incorporating a several new initiatives to better facilitate and profoundly increase the structure, coordination and order of the tradition and history. More importantly, the ultimate goal is to evolve the structure of the New York Institute of Technology for the better.
Result
The desired result of restructuring tradition and reframing the role and the anatomy of New York Institute of Technologys historical value, is to increase both the efficiency and inclusiveness of New York Institute of Technology. Additionally, by restructuring these particular areas, New York Institute of Technology will be able to further enhance its goal to fostering student success and creating an inclusive community across all campuses and sites throughout the world.
Executive Summary: Statement of Purpose | Goal | Tradition
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Abstract
Comprehensive Analysis of Approach
In January of 2012, while working at the NYIT Office of Housing & Residential Life, I began to compile a Strategic Engagement & Retention Initiative Plan for NYIT. The time was opportune from many respects. There have been significant changes in NYITs Student Affairs philosophy, vision, and direction; there have been significant changes in NYIT as it relates to its global footprint, vision, and values; most importantly, NYIT had completed its long term strategic plan: NYIT 2030. Based on all of these new strategic plans, which is prepared by full participation from the whole NYIT community, I wrote my support for NYIT from the students perspective in helping NYIT achieving its vision, values, and goals of the NYIT 2030 plan.
Pictured above: Dr. Edward G uiliano, current President and CEO of NYIT, speaking to a crowd of student s at NYITs global campus in Nanjing, China. Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013 New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal Abstract: Analysis | Vision | Approach VII
I wrote this proposal with my knowledge of Student Affairs and in collaboration with student leader feedback and solicited input from the whole community for guidance. This proposals values are stemmed from student feedback and is comprised as follows:
Vision:
The Strategic Engagement & Retention Initiative seeks to further position NYIT as a leader meeting the challenges of a global and virtual educational community through the use of innovative solutions and strategic alliances with a commitment to excellence.
Approach:
To provide an integrated information historical environment that advances the core missions of the NYIT as well as the operational processes that support these missions.
Pictured above is Dr. Alexander Schure (NYITs 1 st President) speaking to crowd at a sympos ium for technology in the 1960s . Where appropriate, this proposal will seek to implement solutions that are innovative, integrative and supportive to evolving university goals, demands and expectations. This proposal will provide New York Institute of Technology resources to enhance, support and foster teaching, learning, research, administration, service, communications, and outreach. Seven specific areas are identified as critical areas, which will have a large and strategic impact on the future of New York Institute of Technology. At the same time these areas of focus would provide the most opportunities for significant impact on information technology accomplishing its mission. As a result, a separate Global Task Force will be created.
Abstract: Analysis | Vision | Approach
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These program initiatives are as follows:
1. Campus-wide History and Tradition Initiative, which extends in particular to: a signage, webpage integration, faculty and staff, and athletics integration. 2. Implementation of an Official Motto for New York Institute of Technology. 3. Revitalization of New York Institute of Technologys Official Seal. 4. Implementation of Official Music for New York Institute of Technology. 5. Improved Mascot visibility on New York Institute of Technology Campuses. 6. Reimplementation of the Senior Estate Yearbook through Campus Slate Student Staff. 7. Creation of the Joint Select Committee on Retention, Enrollment, & Research. Pictured above is Dr. Mat thew Schure (NYITs 2nd President) shaking hands with several NYIT board members .
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The strategic plan identified nine goals with one or more initiatives in support of the goals. Those goals and initiatives can be added to and completed during the period 2013-2015. Those said goals are: 1. Enhance student collaboration 2. Provide a full-scale history & tradition series 3. Provide an effective student identity 4. Provide an effective administrative retention system 5. Improve student retention analyses and reporting 6. Improve all NYIT web sites in support of history and tradition 7. Improve student and prospective student access to NYIT History 8. Improve administrative operational development (streamlining NYIT) 9. Improve student voice in NYIT leadership and governance Pictured above: Dr. Edward G uiliano, current President and CEO of NYIT, speaking to Secretary Spellings of the Department of Education.
The major themes these goals encompass are: improving the global infrastructure and identity, establishing and enabling a superior collaborative environment for students, upgrading to improve the historical notion of the environment, establishing and improving a retention analysis and reporting environment, improving levels of service, and establishing a participatory student voice in governance.
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The Strategic Engagement and Retention Initiative, presents a strategic context and framework for maintaining a robust, comprehensive and continually upgraded campus history and tradition infrastructure, applications, tools, and services to address the needs of the University. In turn, they enhance the student experience, simplify collaborations and Identity, and empower the campus community. The plan provides direction for accomplishing current and future retention objectives and goals and forms the basis for the campus-wide allocation of resources for history and tradition. We face the challenge of providing equally robust historical identity on all our campuses, especially in our global campuses.
We also need to develop a much closer working relationship with our history in order for this part of our identity to be successful. This would lead to collaboration with the community to provide advancements otherwise not possible. As the strategic plan goes in effect, specific implementation plans for each of the initiatives will be developed. This proposal will work with the relevant leadership and constituencies to make sure that the implementation plans are developed collaboratively and are congruent with the NYIT 2030 plan. The goals include expected outcomes and key performance indicators, which will become the backbone of the ongoing assessment of each of the goals and the plan itself. The plan will be assessed on a formal basis annually to allow for any required course corrections and corrections due to changing conditions and requirements.
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The Gates of Antiquity

NYiT: The Paragon of Pastlessness
Whereas our peer institutions take care on their websites and guided tours to highlight their unique history and traditions throughout the years, NYITs only comparable tangible practice is perhaps Mayfest or Relay for Life. Albeit, these have not been enduring traditions for the decades at NYIT, but many students are unaware of the existence of NYITs history or tradition whatsoever. This is a severe blow for an institution that already lacks substantive traditions, and our meager mentioning of NYIT history on our webpage, which lacks any real depth, does little to help our cause. Instead of school-wide pillow fights (Wellesley College), winter carnivals (Dartmouth College) and watch dropping (Williams College), NYIT students can look forward to going to minor Campus Life events, only hosted and advocated by Student Affairs; and with no push-back from the institution for a fully supported campus-wide event. A house divided against itself can not stand. One might argue that college traditions are, in fact, unnecessary and even frivolous. This is categorically untrue, however, as traditions serve a function that is far more important than providing a bit of light-hearted fun. Traditions are a way of connecting students to alumni, to their alma mater, and to each other. Anemic school spirit and low turnout at sports games are endemic problems for the NYIT. Furthermore, on a campus as diverse as ours, the social glue of college traditions is more important than ever for fostering community and inclusiveness. Resident counselors may plan dorm-bonding events, student activists may rally for shared causes, and the Campus Programming Board may put on meaningful events but no affinity group can ever bring the entirety of NYIT together as traditions can.
The Gates of Antiquity: NYiT: The Paragon of Pastless nes s
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Our Audacious Legacy

The Future | Perfected by the Past
In an environment that can become stressful due to the importance of studies, tradition serves to keep students grounded. It is an avenue to connect with fellow students while allowing them to be immersed in rich, unique culture of the institution. Every school has its own rituals that have been passed down from generation to generation. More prominently, NYIT can better guide its future by having its prospective students and current students alike better understand its magnificent legacy. A quick stroll down NYITs memory lane is very telling to where its place in the future will stand. In 1910, the New York State Board of Regents licensed NYITs predecessor, New York Technical Institute. In 1955, NYIT opened under a provisional charter granted by the New York State Board of Regents to NYIT. Its first campus opened at 500 Pacific Street in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York. The founders of NYIT, and in particular, Alexander Schure, Ph.D. (Pictured right) started NYIT with the mission of offering career-oriented professional education, providing all qualified students access to opportunity, and supporting application-oriented research to benefit the larger world. Schure later served as NYIT's first president (pictured below). NYIT sought to meet critical national demands, particularly the need for scientists, engineers, and high-level technicians in the United States. In the higher education community at the time, a debate arose around the concern that humanities studies would be overshadowed by too much emphasis on science and engineering. NYIT's goal was to create a balance between science/engineering and a liberal arts education, and ever since, it has been focusing on this model to prepare students for current and future careers. Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013 New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal Our Audacious Legacy: The Future | Perfecting by the Past Page: 2
NYIT's mission resonated among industry and learners. By the 19581959 academic year, the university had more than 300 students, and the time had come to expand its physical operations. Fast-forward to today: very little depth is given in any medium to show just how far NYIT has come or the tremendous contributions that our President Guiliano has worked to instill other than our minuscule history bullets by year that fail to convey and sort of depth. NYITs faculty designed curricula to incorporate modern technologies with teaching and applied academics. In 1959, NYIT introduced teaching machines for student instruction in physics, electronics, and mathematics. NYIT also pioneered the use of mainframes as a teaching tool, having received its first, donated by the CIT Financial Corporation, in 1965. The curriculum was successful enough that NYIT received two grants totaling approximately $3 million from the federal government one to develop a system of individualized learning through the use of computers; the other to develop a computer-based course in general physics for midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. NYIT was a pioneer in 3-D computer animation. Before Pixar and Lucas film, there was NYITs Computer Graphics Lab (CGL). In 1974, NYITs Computer Graphics Lab (CGL) was established and attracted the likes of: Pixar Animation Studios President Edwin Catmull and co-founder Alvy Ray Smith; Walt Disney Feature Animation Chief Scientist Lance Joseph Williams; DreamWorks animator Hank Grebe; and Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark. Pictured left, is President Alexander Schure outside an NYIT building in early 1960s; many of the buildings on NYITs Old Westbury Campus are of the former Whitney Estate. In 1995, NYITs School of Engineering took first place in the U.S. Department of Energys Clean Air Road Rally. The student engineering team spent three years designing and building the high-performance hybrid electric car that beat out 43 other vehicles. Today, NYIT is recognized as one of the top science and engineering schools and now offers a total of 90 undergraduate degree, graduate degree programs, and medical degree programs to 14,000 students in academic areas such as architecture and design; arts and sciences; education; engineering and computing sciences; health professions; management; and osteopathic medicine; with more than half pursuing advanced degrees. University
Our Audacious Legacy: The Future | Perfecting by the Past
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Proposed Organization
Transcending Barriers | Composing Initiatives
This proposal seeks to fundamentally change the way that tradition, culture, and history is perceived, treated, and understood within New York Institute of Technology. Furthermore, this proposal will re-distinguish the scale, outlook and prospects of New York Institute of Technology to include the following seven (7) initiatives explained chronologically in the following pages for greater depth and more precise comprehension: 1. Campus-wide History and Tradition Initiative, which extends in particular to: a signage, webpage integration, faculty and staff, and athletics integration. 2. Implementation of an Official Motto for New York Institute of Technology. 3. Revitalization of New York Institute of Technologys Official Seal. 4. Implementation of Official Music for New York Institute of Technology. 5. Improved Mascot visibility on New York Institute of Technology Campuses 6. Reimplementation of the Senior Estate Yearbook through Campus Slate Student Staff 7. Creation of the Joint Select Committee on Retention, Enrollment, & Research. * *Joint Select Committee on Retention, Enrollment, & Research is to be chosen by the Presidents Council Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013 New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal Proposed Organization: Transcending | Composing Initiatives Page: 4
History | Tradition: Signage Initiative

Profound History | Impeccable Tradition
Given New York Institute of Technologys rich historical nature, this initiative serves to create awareness around NYITs global campuses that shed light on our heritage and tradition. More prominently, NYITs main campus in Old Westbury, NY, could incorporate its own history through various signage initiatives in buildings around campus. Harry Shure, Anna Rubin, Theobald, Midge Karr, David G. Salten, Edward Guiliano, are the many names that rest above our buildings on campus. Sadly, many NYIT students cant name any contribution of these individuals on campus or their importance. This history and tradition signage initiative is a series that features vintage images of NYITs students, leaders, faculty, professors and Campuses around the globe. Each sign should celebrate the generations of students, professors, campuses, and events that defined their New York Institute of Technology through historical images and descriptive captions. This is an ambitious initiative that requires support from each campus to showcase their own particular historical offering per campus contribution. Pictured right is current NYIT President Dr. Edward Guiliano as the faculty advisor to the school paper when he served as a professor in the English Department; this picture speaks volumes to Dr. Guilianos service as president as he himself is living history. Pictured left is NYITs 2nd President Matthew Schure and David G. Salten at a commencement ceremony. Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013 New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal His tory & Tradition Signage Initiative: Profound History | Impeccable Tradition Page: 5
History | Tradition: Improved Webpage Integration

History | Tradition: Reorganized for Better Accessibility Through Technology
New York Institute of Technology has taken great strides to innovate our website and has recently added guided tours to highlight our campus. However, our webpage does a disservice to our history and tradition. Currently, NYITs history is only regarding to meager page of streamlined events in NYITs history with one-line descriptions instead of full depth such as notable on institutions websites. For better accessibility, NYIT could consider revamping its current history page under about NYIT to include full depth and a grander scope of tradition and history to enable the NYIT community to have a greater sense of inclusion. Anemic school spirit and low turnout at college events are endemic problems for the NYIT. To create a greater historical presence online, NYIT can also consider adding a history look-book in the same style and manner as that of the Presidents report. NYIT can also conduct interviews and do a series on the My NYIT, present, past, and future, where faculty and staff give accounts on the progress NYIT has made over the years. Pictured left is NYITs first President, Dr. Alexander Schure surveying the technology labs in Gerry House on the Old Westbury Campus.
His tory & Tradition: Webpage Integration: Reorganized for Great er Accessibility
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History | Tradition: Faculty & Staff Incorporation

History | Tradition: Faculty & Staff Contribution
Faculty and staff members are highly involved in teaching, engaging students in the undergraduate experience and resulting in greater student learning gains and the college experience. As a result, assessing the impact that faculty behaviors and interactions with students in the classroom have on the undergraduate classroom experience should be showcased on NYITs campus. Pictured right is Dr. Alexander Schure dancing with students and faculty at an event in 1970s. The NYIT staff member pictured left is Mrs. Renise Rosen, Associate Director of Registrar at New York Institute of Technology. Mrs. Rosen graduated from NYIT in the mid 1960s and continued working for NYIT since her graduation; the picture is courtesy of the discontinued New York Institute of Technology Estate Yearbook for graduating seniors via the Campus Slate student staff. Faculty and Staff involvement in a historical context is a way of connecting students to alumni, to their alma mater and to each other. Anemic school spirit and low turnout at sports games are endemic problems for the NYIT. Furthermore, on a campus as diverse as ours, the social glue that college professors and staff provide is more important than ever for fostering community, inclusiveness, and retention. Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013 New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal His tory & Tradition: Faculty & Staff Incorporation: Faculty & Staff Contribution Page: 7
History | Tradition: Athletics Integration

History | Tradition: Spotlighting Athletics & their Contribution
NYIT and Athletics are often intertwined, as sports provide a venue for symbolic competition between nations; sports competition often reflects national conflict, and in fact has often been a tool of diplomacy. NYIT needs to create more initiative to include Athletics contribution in its history around campus. Among the many factors that distinguish American colleges and universities from their counterparts elsewhere in the world, intercollegiate athletics occupies a place of prominence. Every observer of American university life must engage the pervasive, ubiquitous institution of intercollegiate athletics that occupies so many students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends and consumes substantial institutional resources. Some critics see this American passion for organized college sports competition as an egregious attachment to the academic body which should be done away with, while some partisans of intercollegiate sports see the pursuit of athletic competition as an essential component of superior higher-education institutions. Pictured left is NYITs former football team at a game on the sac field in the 1970s.
His tory & Tradition: Athletics Integration Spotlighting Athletics & their Contribution
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Neither of these evaluations is correct; athletics in Americas colleges has a long and enduring tradition that represents a fundamental construct of almost every type of highereducation institution, and sustains its vitality and significance in the face of substantial fiscal and managerial challenges. Pictured right is NYIT President Dr. Guiliano and the NYIT Lacrosse team at the sac field talking to students just prior to a game.
His tory & Tradition: Athletics Integration Spotlighting Athletics & their Contribution
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Implementation of an Official University Motto

Sapientia Et Lorem | Wisdom & Technology
The term motto is defined as: a word, phrase, or sentence that expresses an attitude, ideal, or guiding principle associated with the organization to which it belongs. Plural: mottoes or mottos. New York Institute of Technologys motto has faded into the realm of pastlessness. Our original seal for NYIT included the words, Science, Technology, and Humanities. Those words represented the building blocks of our institution upon its founding in 1955. NYIT needs a slogan that embodies the spirit and perseverance that our founders had when this institution was first started. We currently have nothing that portrays us in this light. Institutions such as the University of Chicago have mottoes such as Crescat scientia; vita excolatur, which means, Let knowledge grow from more to more; so be human life enriched. NYIT needs to be brought up to the same standard that other well-known institutions hold for themselves. We need an official motto and a strong recruiting tag line. I propose that NYIT implement the motto Sapientia Et Lorem which is Latin for Wisdom and Technology; two resilient stalwarts of New York Institute of Technologys identity former, present, & future. One might argue that college mottos are, in fact, unnecessary and even frivolous; or that NYIT is no longer represented by just the three mentioned disciplines so the old motto is unnecessary. This is categorically untrue, as NYIT has proven to greatly transcend Science, Technology, and Humanities in the educational realm. Its transcendence of those disciplines does not render them obsolete nor does it somehow alienate members of our global community. In fact, it adds great character and it ties NYIT students to their alma mater and to each other. Furthermore, an Official NYIT Motto is more important than ever for fostering community, inclusiveness, and retention.
Implementation of an Official University Motto: Science | Technology | Humanities
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Revitalization of the Official University Seal

Emblem | Virtue | Heritage | Legacy
The Official Seal of New York Institute of Technology is a symbol of dignity that is used to mark official College correspondence. The pushback I received from all of the NYIT alumni whose feedback and questions prompted me to convey a vital message to NYITs leadership: our current seal lacks substance. The state of our current seal pales in comparison to our former seal, and significantly lacks the profound character found in other intuitions official seals. I received an abundance of calls advocating for NYITs leadership to consider revitalizing the current seal to adopt the notions from the former seal.
New York Institute of Technologys Current Official Seal

Currently, New York Institute of Technologys Official Seal is described as such: A blue seal imprinting the words, New York Institute at the top landing, and of Technology at the bottom landing. Embossed with sixteen blue arrows all facing inward to create a smaller inner circle with an empty lining on the outskirt of the circle where the former New York Institute and of Technology, previously laid. The current seal does not include our former olive branches, founding year, school motto, historical and traditional character, and unfortunately, has lost the precious story that alumni worked to convey to future classes: our majesty. Furthermore, there is no online, or other college reference to the significance or meaning of our current seal. Albeit, simplified, the simplification of our former seal has little to no worth if it does not carry over the same meaning that latter held. Its almost as if NYIT regressed and erased the heraldic value from its seal to fall more in line with that of a business logo; but we can easily improve and give back great character to the seal of our prestigious institution.
Revitalization of the Official University Seal: Emblem | Virtue | Heritage | Legacy
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New York Institute of Technologys Former Official Seal

Formerly, New York Institute of Technologys Official Seal was described as such: A seal imprinting the words, New York Institute at the top landing, and of Technology at the bottom landing. Embossed with two olive branch vines (which is a symbol for peace and victory) in the uppermiddle landing. Our founding year of 1955 centered above the olive branch vines. In the Dexter and sinister of the seal lies an open book (symbolizing education) fitted with a T-square (technical drawing tool) and Set-square (technical drawing tool). Complemented, by the former college motto of Science, Technology, and Humanities can be found above the in the upper-latter portion of the seal. Clearly, the former seal does in fact include our historical and traditional character, and ties us to the precious story that alumni worked to convey to future classes: our majesty.
Official Seal Exhibition Study & Proposal

In comparison to peer institutions, I closely studied the current official seal of NYIT and juxtaposed it with other institutions to see how our seal matches up with the heraldic significance typically seen in university seals. The following study is conducted on pages 11, 12, and 13. Additionally, a new seal is proposed with the incorporation of the current and former seal to create a new concept.
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Official University Seal Exhibit

NYITs Current Seal compared to the University of Miamis Seal
NYITs current official seal, absent of any historical or heraldic significance; missing founding year of 1955.
UMs current official seal in color, contains great historical and heraldic significance, it also includes founding year of institution.
Official University Seal Ex hibition: Emblem | Virtue | Heritage | Legacy
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Official University Seal Exhibit (Continued)

NYITs Current Seal compared to the University of Miamis Seal
NYITs current official seal not in color, absent of any historical or heraldic significance; mis sing our f ounding year of 1955.
UMs current official seal not in color, contains great historical and heraldic significance, it also includes founding year of institution.
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Official University Seal Exhibit (Continued)

NYITs Current Seal compared to its Former Seal
NYITs current official seal, absent of any historical or heraldic significance; missing founding year of 1955, it pales in comparison to our former seal, looks indistinctive and too simple
NYITs former official seal not in color, contains great historical and heraldic significance, includes motto, includes founding year of 1955, and contains precious tradition of NYIT.
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Proposed Seal Redesign Concept (Obverse)

NYIT Seal Redesign Concept
I began designing a concept seal (left) for New York Institute of Technology and its detailing is described as such: A seal imprinting the words, New York Institute of Technology at the top landing continuously. Fitted with the NYIT motto I proposed Sapientia Et Lorem Latin for Wisdom and Technology. Our founding year of 1955 centered below the NYIT motto. In the Dexter and sinister of the seal lies four open boxes detailing heraldic value essential to NYIT founding and values. Below lies an open book (symbolizing education) fitted with a T-square (technical drawing tool) and Set-square (technical drawing tool). Embossed with two olive branch vines (which is a symbol for peace and victory) in the upper-middle landing.
Concept Seal Exhibition Study & Proposal

In comparison to our current seal, I closely studied the current official seal of NYIT and juxtaposed it with the concept to see how our seal matches up with the heraldic significance typically seen in university seals. The following study is conducted on pages 18, 19, 20, and 21.
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Proposed Seal Redesign Concept (Reverse)

NYIT Seal Redesign Concept
I began designing a concept seal (left) for New York Institute of Technology and its detailing is described as such: A seal imprinting the words, New York Institute of Technology at the top landing continuously. Fitted with the NYIT motto I proposed Sapientia Et Lorem Latin for Wisdom and Technology. Our founding year of 1955 centered below the NYIT motto. In the Dexter and sinister of the seal lies four open boxes detailing heraldic value essential to NYIT founding and values. Below lies an open book (symbolizing education) fitted with a T-square (technical drawing tool) and Set-square (technical drawing tool). Embossed with two olive branch vines (which is a symbol for peace and victory) in the upper-middle landing.
Concept Seal Exhibition Study & Proposal

In comparison to our current seal, I closely studied the current official seal of NYIT and juxtaposed it with the concept to see how our seal matches up with the heraldic significance typically seen in university seals. The following study is conducted on pages 18, 19, 20, and 21.
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Concept Seal Exhibit (Continued)

NYITs Current Seal compared to the Concept Seal (Obverse)
NYITs current official seal in color, absent of any historical or heraldic significance; missing founding year of 1955, it pales in comparison to our former seal, looks indistinctive and too simple
Concept seal for NYIT, not in color, contains great historical and heraldic significance, includes motto, includes founding year of 1955, and contains precious tradition of NYIT. Revitalization of the Official University Seal: Emblem | Virtue | Heritage | Legacy Page: 18

NYITs Current Seal compared to the Concept Seal (Reverse)
NYITs current official seal, absent of any historical or heraldic significance; missing founding year of 1955, it pales in comparison to our former s eal, looks indistinctive and too simple Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013 New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal

NYITs Former Seal compared to the Concept Seal (Obverse)
NYITs former official seal not in color, contains great historical and heraldic significance, includes motto, includes founding year of 1955, and contains precious tradition of NYIT. Authored by: Mr. Brandon Llone NYiT Student | Class of 2013 New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal
NYIT Former Seal: Obverse & Reverse
NYIT Current Seal: Obv ers e & Reverse
NYIT Concept Seal: Obvers e & Reverse
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Implementation of an Official University Song

NYiT Prelude | Glee Club | Marching Band | Homecoming
Despite variation in any given person's life experience, studies have shown that music listeners largely agree with one another when it comes to the emotions presented in a song. This may be independent of lyrics; musical sounds themselves may carry emotional meaning. NYIT can consider implementing a university song that perhaps may not be sung within the classrooms, but more importantly, as a notion to strengthen community. Most university songs are now either utilized within Athletics events, Marching Bands, or Homecoming games all endeavors NYIT should consider to improve campus life, community, retention, and global ties. For example a Glee Club on NYITs campus would work well if NYITs leaders had already set out a specific standard or had a historical prelude to build upon at sporting events, social events, and perhaps other off-campus venues where NYIT is represented. The age old (shouted) NY followed IT yelled in the stands at a bear game is a great community inclusive piece that only a few student involved in campus life are aware of. A marching band is another great idea particularly since NYIT had a football team in the past. However, with NYIT currently without a football team this endeavor would have to be attributed to the NYIT 2030 plan for optionality. An Official Homecoming on campus would be the social glue of NYIT tradition and important for fostering community, inclusiveness, and retention. While we may not have a football team on campus, we can always utilize our basketball, soccer, or baseball in lieu of football for a homecoming ceremony.
Implementation of an Official University Song Emblem | Virtue | Heritage | Legacy
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The main reason that our Jam-Bear-Ree (NYIT Version of Homecoming) lacks significance is because it lacks the vital nameplate many students associate with affinity: Homecoming. Any other usage other than Homecoming for an official fall school event simply misses the mark and fails to resonate with students looking for those key items in their college experience.
Our substitutions for these key events, i.e. Jam-Bear-Ree as opposed to Homecoming or not include a Mr. and Mrs. NYIT, we will continually fail to spark affinity with students and lose their retention. If NYIT wishes to meet its respected reputation with a respected student social life and retention reputation, then we must start adopting the event practices of our peer institutions; particularly their nameplates Homecoming should remain Homecoming, end of story.
Implementation of an Official University Song Emblem | Virtue | Heritage | Legacy
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Improved Mascot Visibility on Campuses

Tech Pride | Tech Spirit | Global Affinity
Presidents may come, presidents may go; professors may come, professors may go; students may come, students may go; but our NYIT Bear lives forever!" The NYIT Bear represents a quirky tradition on campus. The friendly bear safeguards the official Spirit of Tech. Acting through students selected to don the Bear mantle, the Bear should maintain a vigorous and unpredictable presence during a week in his honor in the spring. Currently NYIT has particularly poor utilization of our mascot on campus. One can almost count the number of times that the NYIT Bear is seen. The NYIT Bear is rarely seen roaming around campus and is almost never seen outside of major events. It would be nice to see our school mascot stroll around every once in a while near free hour or SGA meet-and-greet; or when admissions hands out gummy bears to prospective students who attend university tours. At Emory University in Atlanta, GA perhaps in a quirky sense of university pride, whenever the Emory Mascot (Dooley) appears in a classroom, the class is cancelled and the students are free to roam about the campus. Albeit, this requires coordination between the professor and campus life to streamline the visit to not infringe on educational pursuits. However, it is a unique and charming utilization of their mascot on campus. NYIT can consider utilizing the logic as Emory University do to better incorporate our mascot into the daily lives of students and faculty. Our mascot serves at the forefront for fostering community, inclusiveness, and retention. Judging by the picture above, President Guiliano looks like hes a supporter for better incorporation of the mascot around campus.
Improved Mascot Visibility on Campuses Tech Pride | Tech Spirit | Global Affinity
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Reimplementation of the Estate Yearbook

Preserving Memories | Showcasing Dedication
Decades ago NYIT had its own student run senior yearbook called the Estate Yearbook that captured the timeline of events during the final year for many NYIT students faculty and staff. The Estate has now largely faded into background of the Campus Slate but a reimplementation could significantly raise students sprits. Yearbooks promote a sense of school pride and unity. The cover and pages of the book often are covered in school colors, emblems and mottoes, serving to remind students, teachers and staff members of a shared purpose.
Most students enjoy getting their yearbooks signed by friends and teachers. This type of social interaction is positive and fun. Yearbooks are popular items to keep as people age. Looking back at past school years is a pleasant experience for many people, and it can help to promote good relationships between a school and its alumni. Yearbooks are usually the product of a yearbook committee's work. This committee generally is comprised of students and teachers.
This type of project promotes positive student and staff collaboration, and it also give students valuable experience in journalism, photography and publishing. Given, NYIT students could partner with Marketing & Communications, The Campus Slate, and other university resources to accomplish this task; even fundraising for the Estate could be facilitated via students with little to no monetary contribution by the university other than manpower.
Reimplementation of the Estate Yearbook Preserving Memories | Showcasing Dedication
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Creation of the Joint Select Committee on Retention, Enrollment, & Research*

Streamlining Ideas | Creation of a Bipartisan Global Task Force
As New York Institute of Technology continuously strives to be a community-oriented institution; it would be beneficial to seek student involvement in the creation of lasting symbols such as a school song, school logo, school motto, and other initiatives. This would greatly utilize the talents that NYIT houses in its very halls, and would serve as a means for students to leave their legacy at NYIT, which is the purpose of this proposal. Our current President, Dr. Edward Guiliano, elected president in 2000, has significantly increased the size and quality of our diverse student body of more than 14,000 students from nearly 50 U.S. states and 100 nations; added more than 300 distinguished faculty members; and opened campuses and sites in North America, the Middle East, Asia, and an online presence to complement NYITs hub campuses in Manhattan and Long Island, New York. As President Guiliano continues to put NYIT on forefront of educational prestige, President Guiliano needs our support to help him further our global vision and continue to improve our global community. NYIT has undergone a major renovation of campus facilities while branding itself to raise its national and international profile. The administration also created a 2030 strategic plan to position NYIT as a model for a 21st-century global university. NYIT has been consistently ranked as one of Americas best colleges by leading publications.
Committee on Ret ention, Enrollment, & Res earch Streamlining Ideas I Bipartisan Task Force
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In March 2012, in recognition of Dr. Guilianos commitment, scholarship, philanthropy, and transformational long-standing leadership, NYIT named its flagship Manhattan campus building on Broadway the Edward Guiliano Global Center. In order to complement and continue to support such a transformational NYIT President, I cultivated a committee that Dr. Guiliano can utilize as a tool to more easily continue his exceptional work and mission for NYIT. The committee would be outlined as follows: 1. The committee would consist of a 12 members, Joint Select Committee on Retention, Enrollment & Research, to be colloquially known as the Global Task Force. 2. Committee members would consist of six (6) members from President Guilianos Presidential Council, distinguished faculty, and Board of Trustees members and a member from the alumni office to act as the voice for alumni. 3. Committee members would consist of five (5) additional students from Campus Life to include distinguished student leaders chosen by the Dean of Campus Life. 4. The 12th committee member would be determined through contest or interview of some sorts, to be globally voted on. A showcase or social media venues would be ideal to achieve this. 5. The committee would meet in conjunction with the Academic Senate and would purposefully add additional students to the roster to promote strong student support outside of the student advocate (Student Government President) that attends the senate meeting holistically. 6. Each student would be involved in the selection of school relics (motto, song, seal) and this would create a sense of community and student voice. By making students feel as though they can impact the community and make collective decisions as a student body, rather than having decisions made for them, would increase school pride. The increase of school pride leads to the increase of affinity and identity and therefore, retention rates across the New York Institute of Technology global campus body. 7. The body would operate in a bipartisan manner to include more student voices met with NYIT leadership with the goal of promoting ideas and avenues that will increase retention. *Joint Select Committee on Retention, Enrollment & Research (Colloquially known as the Global Task Force) is to be chosen by the Presidents Council.
Committee on Ret ention, Enrollment, & Res earch Streamlining Ideas I Bipartisan Task Force
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The Two Conundrums: Retention & Affinity

Retention of Students | Deficiency of Student Voice
As New York Institute of Technology continuously strives to be a community-oriented institution; it would be beneficial to seek student involvement in the creation of lasting symbols such as a school song, school logo, and school motto. This would greatly utilize the talents that NYIT houses in its very halls, and would serve as a means for students to leave their legacy at NYIT, which is the purpose of this proposal. Currently, every organization makes decisions within itself and students dont feel like they have a voice in the community because all the decisions are seemingly made for them. For example, New York Institute of Technologys Student Government Association is one of the most influential student advocate organizations on campus. However, while SGA may make every effort to better the community, there is a wide lack of faith in this organization among the student population. While SGA is student-run, it is run by a chosen few that wish to make a lasting contribution to the community. This in itself is commendable, but there are other students that wish to take a stand in the community, but without a lasting commitment. For instance, during my tenure as an SGA Senator, one of my constituents put together a full proposal to the Food Services Department that greatly impacted the selection of food that is served at NYIT. Now, you may ask, why didnt this student undertake this project through the Student Government Association? The answer is simple: SGA is not one that makes itself available to the community. It is a closed organization that relies on the student input of the students already chosen to participate in this organization. Even so, the process of choosing SGA senators favors the elite. For example, my senatorial position was appointed; a regular student that wished to advocate for the same cause could not be given the opportunity to act in my capacity.
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SGA holds forums that are not well attended and provides cookie cutter solutions that dont severely impact ongoing solutions, much less address them. A better avenue to get student input would be to create significant awareness of senate forums specifically to those students who are within the school represented by that particular senator. If need be, an individual email blast can be sent to those students within a particular school containing the information of their senators and who, what, where, why, and how, to advocate for change or solutions to on-going problems. Much like the average American who cant name the senators for the state they reside in, the average NYIT student cant name the senators for their respective school. SGA frequently dismisses suggests for certain proposed events under the rationale that there is not enough funding or approval for the endeavors that senators wish to take, and at times, in my experience, pessimism and unwillingness to try to change certain aspects of our institution overcame motions made. SGA would gain a lot of student following if larger scale fundraising programs with widely known purposes (other than Relay for Life) actually occurred on campus. For example, instead of advertising a bake sale for SGA, having a bake sale run by SGA advertised with the purpose to support the reopening of the Harry Schure upper level engineering lounge would better gather student support. Once students can see that there is a certain level of transparency in this organization and that there is a notable progress occurring, students will begin to have more faith in our school as a whole. An effective way of doing this would be to have updated SGA meeting minutes available on the NYIT website or to have a physical gauge like our alumni did when Wisser Library was being constructed.
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A Targeted & Deliberate Approach to Retention

These are the reflections from Charlie Hueber, a distinguished Student Affairs practitioner whose thoughts provide a great approach for understanding the nature and causation, and influence of school pride, affinity, and inclusiveness, related to retention. Here is the complete excerpt of Dr. Huebers analysis:
The Architecture of Effective Social & Educational Integration

Today more than ever we find ourselves in a time of financial instability that is hitting our schools and causing budget cuts around the board. College administrations are now more than ever looking to increase enrollment and retention. They know that there is no one solution to the problem of retention and are looking for all the help they can get. Research shows that many factors may affect a students decision to leave and one of the most commonly overlooked by academic institutions is that of social integration. Another study shows that three themes emerged when students discussed success in the terms of their college experience: grades, social integration and the ability to navigate college. Colleges are renewing their focus on school spirit, because the research shows that a student body that has pride in their school will be retained at a higher rate and we know how that can affect our bottom line. With budgets shrinking and enrollment increasing, the need to increase school spirit on our campuses is coming front and center, colleges are now asked to take on more and more responsibility.
Law of the Few

Malcolm Gladwell in a book titled Outliers: The Story of Success refers to a concept he coins as The Law of the Few. He states that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts To be successful in launching a successful spirit campaign you will need to understand this law. Pride in your school and school spirit are inherently social issues driven by an individuals personal identification and connection to the institution. To impact this on any large scale you will need to seek the help of a very select group of students on your campus.
A Targeted & Deliberate Approach to Retention: Social Integration | Law | Authorship | Pride
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Campus trends can go viral if the right groups of students get a hold of it. The difficulty comes in identifying these students and then persuading them to create a social shift. Start with a group of students you have contact with and try to identify the one or two students who seems to know everyone. These are the students who are involved in every group on campus and have an extraordinary knack for making new friends and acquaintances. From here you can build an organization like a traditions council whose sole mission is to promote school spirit and place what Gladwell called a connector as your first president. The formation of this group and solidification of its mission is your first step to achieving your goal.
Student Authorship & Development

The second step to increasing school spirit is the most difficult in that you must let the students own it. If you take credit for all of these ideas, push your thoughts on school spirit forward and never let the student truly buy in and take charge your program will fail. Whether you graduated from college 2 or 20 years ago you cannot know everything that students today need to motivate them. The concept of school spirit and school pride is very conformist in nature and therefore is a bad idea to many students looking to become individuals, but the idea of school spirit can be a radical change if you have the right group of students to lead the charge and you are willing to let go. To be successful you must plant several ideas and guide them as they make the decisions. One way to promote ownership in a program on the college campus is to create a sense of exclusivity. I have found that groups who are open to everyone are often smaller and less productive than groups who have capped their membership. Students perceive a higher value when they feel as though they are a chosen and select few. So if you are going to start a traditions council start it small. I would select my officers and allow then to take applications and only choose a committee of about ten to fifteen to get started.
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The Refocus on Pride

You have your leaders and a committee with a mission to increase school spirit now what? The group needs to begin to brainstorm ways to change the culture on campus to get more students involved and the focus should always be on pride. I worked in student activities at Stephen F. Austin for over 8 years and one of my first charges was to help increase school spirit. I remember attending May commencements and watching one person sing the alma mater for the college, none of the graduates were singing along. I thought to myself you just paid $50,000 for this degree and spent possibly the best four or five years of your life here and you do not know the alma mater? So I brought this radical idea to my student organization that before you could join you had to know the school song we started singing it at the end of each of our meetings and before long SGA picked up on it and started singing it at the end of their meetings. It caught fire, freshmen at orientation were now taught the song, students at Jack Camp had to sing it and yes we required the cheerleaders to know every single word of it. Now if you attend graduation at SFA you will find that most of the students attending can sing along. It has become part of the culture. We were proud of our school and this was one way to show it. I remember another conversation I had with a group of students where they sat and issued complaints about how our student body continually supported other colleges by wearing shirts and hat from those schools. We wanted students to be proud of our school. So we brainstormed solutions and came up with the burn shirt program. The idea was simple. Each year we have a homecoming bonfire that one of our student organizations spends the week of homecoming to construct. We would design a college shirt that expressed a tremendous amount of school spirit and the week of homecoming the only way to get one was to trade in another schools shirt or hat. We would take half of the shirts and send them through a local church to the homeless in Africa and burn the other half on the bottom of our bonfire. The program was a huge success as we ran out of shirts the first day and had to rush to get more printed. It is now a tradition and students will go to Wal-Mart or goodwill and buy a shirt for the trade if they cannot get one. Not all programs are as successful as these. Nor should you give up on programs before they have had a chance to work. Some take years to catch on and some will simply fail. In my years in student activities I have had more fail than succeed, but as long as you start with a great group, let them take charge and keep the focus on pride you slowly and surely increase the school spirit on your campus.
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The Prudish Reality of NYiT

When Domineering Political Correctness Shrouds Student Voices
As New York Institute of Technology continuously strives to be a community-oriented institution, it faces the difficultly of tempering itself as to not unintentionally marginalize students and create inclusiveness for all. This requires creating a standard for language and conduct facilitated by NYIT leadership. While this is a good practice, it must be coupled with sensibility as to not be domineering or prudish in such a nature that halts students voices. I mentioned the school-wide pillow fights (Wellesley College), winter carnivals (Dartmouth College) and watch dropping (Williams College) in earlier pages. Unfortunately, NYIT, in its current capacity would most likely never attempt any of these endeavors. By reason of overbearing political correctness at NYIT, these initiatives wouldnt pass a typical checklist on a Deans desk. For Example, if NYIT students advocated for the same campus-wide pillow fights seen at Wellesley College, NYU, and Columbia University, NYIT would never host the event because of the word fight in school-wide pillow fight; it may offend a few people. Or perhaps, the violent nature of students innocently pummeling one another with the intent to strike another student with a feather-filled pillow, may be too much for one or two students to handle. Better yet, if NYIT students advocated for a campus-wide game of Manhunt (an urban game of tag), NYIT would tremble, for the word hunt is included and may offend some; or a student may be distraught after hiding from another student in the game of tag and need to seek Counseling and Wellness for stress. So, instead of having a communityintegrated game of tag students advocate for, we will have a session on the history of tag during free hour in Anna Rubin Hall, where pizza and drinks will be served. Sounds pretty silly, doesnt it? Well unfortunately, that particular type of thought process is rampant among the college, and so for the sole purpose of treading lightly on the ice of political correctness, and seemingly obscure social paradoxes, NYIT chooses not to host certain community events: even those most vigorously advocated for by students. For this reason, NYIT needs to consider a change in this hypersensitivity thought process in order to better facilitate student events. To better proportion events advocated by students, Campus Life can also institute a bipartisan board of current students with staff involvement to weight decisions on programs instituted, thus comprehensively
The Prudish Reality of NYIT: When Domineering Polit ical Correctness Shrouds Student Voices
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New Student Presidential Welcome Redesign

Refocusing | How NYIT Can Effectively Engage & Retain New Students
Welcome Day invites back to campus all students who attended Summer Orientation, new students who did not attend Summer Orientation but who may attend Make Up Orientation this day, and all International Students who have not attended an International Student Orientation. This event is coupled with NYITs Presidential Welcome keynote given by Dr. Guiliano and is vital to new student retention. The presidential welcome as it is now, is facilitated in the Riland Auditorium of New York Institute of Technologys College of Osteopathic Medicine. The problem does not lie in the content of the speeches given at the ceremony, the problem lies within the ceremony itself. It is currently held in building typically only houses medical students, NYITCOM caf, and other graduate student facilities not assessable to undergraduate students i.e. silent study lounge, which is keycard swipe entry only for graduate students. The only undergraduate area within Riland is the School of Health Professions where, again, undergraduates do not engage in daily college life in that area unless they have a specific issue and belong to a major in that school. For everyone else, they will most likely never step foot in that building. A more effective way to reach out to new students, better create inclusiveness and retain more students, would be for the Presidential Welcome to occur during free hour on the first day of school and make the attendance of first year students mandatory. The welcome would then follow a redesigned Fall Welcome Week. Fall Welcome Week would kick off on Monday, with the Presidential Welcome and continue on through to Friday. New Student Pres ident ial Welcome Redesign Refocusing | Eff ectively Engage & Retain Students Page: 34
Throughout the week there would be a series of programs and featured events. Overall, the week would boast various programs that cover a multitude of topics from getting involved and learning about NYIT, to staying safe and navigating public transportation. New students would receive access to sign-up for Welcome Week programs using a new unique Welcome Week scheduling program for which information is disseminated during the summer. Coordination with the Student Solutions Center and first year goal setting should also be mandatory.
Lastly, and most importantly, the Presidential Welcome should be moved to the quad where most undergraduate students spend time, and take the majority of their classes. A stage could be brought for the event and speakers can utilize this location as opposed to the Riland Auditorium, which is obscure to many first year undergraduates. Dr. Guiliano could then greet students for the Presidential Welcome and follow that up with Tech students favorite event, an ice cream social.
New Student Presidential Welcome Redes ign Refocusing | Eff ectively Engage & Retain Students
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NYiT 2030 & The Significance of Student Contribution

Sound Vision | Ambitious Goals | Unyielding Drive
President Guiliano described the way forward at the beginning of the 2030 project. Now its time to be sure that we can really deliver on our messages by engaging our community of faculty, administrators and staff in a strategic planning process for the coming years. We need to focus on the things that support the messages, stop doing the things that dont. We need to do a better job in some areas. We may need to do some new things. We need to develop evidence for the outside world that we are, in fact, delivering. We need to find ways of measuring our progress so we can keep improving. Now more than ever, NYIT needs to hear student voices like the on heard in this proposal to better align NYITs vision with the global student community. Pictured left is Peter Kinney III, Chief of Staff to NYIT, who recently voiced his objective to drive growth and quality at NYIT working alongside Dr. Guiliano, and Brandon Llone, student leader, author of this proposal, and NYIT Class of 2013 Alumni. NYIT 2030 begins with the vision and goals that have guided the University since 2000. The project has provided an opportunity for the community to take stock, identify needed midcourse corrections, and chart a course for the long run future. Student contribution to these endeavors is vital and necessary for our community. Specifically, NYIT 2030 follows these objectives: Improve academic quality and program development, strengthen recruitment, retention and student life, enhance the college's image, and improve NYIT's financial condition and strengthen administrative services.
NYIT 2030 & Student Contribution Significance Sound Vision |Ambitious Goals | Unyielding Drive
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Articulating the Brand of NYIT

These are the reflections from Rodger Dooley, Roger Dooley writes and speaks about marketing, and in particular the use of neuroscience and behavioral research to make advertising, marketing, and products better. He is the primary author at Neuromarketing, and founder of Dooley Direct LLC, a marketing consultancy. Here is the complete excerpt of Dr. Dooleys analysis:
Name Recognition vs. Brand Image

It was pure serendipity that I read Brand Immortality by Pringle and Field on my way to a conference where I was to speak about branding to a group of enrollment executives from colleges and universities. It wasnt a giant Aha! moment, but I realized that institutions of higher education represent the longest-lasting brands in our relatively young country. The authors of Brand Immortality begin their book trying to defeat the notion that brands are transient and have a life cycle much like individual products. They would get no argument about that from most university trustees and administrators, who preside over institutions that have maintained the same name for decades or even centuries. And, make no mistake about it, colleges and universities market themselves many to survive, a smaller number to thrive. What strikes me as odd is despite the amount of money that most colleges spend on direct mail, print and web advertising, social media marketing, and many other categories, how little they focus on branding. *Pictured right are students at the NYIT bookstore in the late 1960s.
Articulating the Brand of NYIT: Nameplate | Recognition | Perception
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With more than 3,000 competitors, U.S. colleges and universities need to differentiate themselves, particularly in the coming years when the baby boom echo begins to fade. Of course, differences in location, selectivity, programs, and cost mean that no school actually competes with all other schools. A student in Nebraska seeking a nursing degree, for example, is likely to look at a small number of local or regional colleges that offer such programs. A student wanting to attend Princeton is likely to focus mainly on peer-group institutions like other Ivy League schools, and a few other colleges of high academic reputation but with more predictable admissions outcomes. Even with this self-selection, though, colleges still face a daunting task to fill their incoming classes not just with bodies but with students with the right academic, extracurricular, financial, and other traits. The competition for the right students (or occasionally any students) has forced colleges to look at their marketing efforts in conventional business terms: lead generation, relationship management, etc. This business-like focus is largely a good thing for colleges, but too much focus on pure lead generation presents one risk: loss of focus on branding. College marketing materials often look interchangeably alike. Happy, diverse students; a green and leafy campus; engaged, enthusiastic professors, etc. Not that these images are all bad they suggest to students that four years at that college will be pleasant and productive. Unfortunately, these same materials rarely hit on one or two factors that really separate that school from its competition. As counter-examples, lets look at a pair of Columbias: Columbia University. One example of a university that has done a solid branding job is Columbia University. While one might say that as an Ivy League school that can reject nine out of ten applicants, Columbia U has all the branding it needs, the school still has to compete with seven other Ivies and various other peer schools to attract the most accomplished students. Ive watched their marketing efforts for more than a decade, and they exploit perhaps the most important difference they have to offer: they are the only Ivy in New York City, and are located right on Broadway.
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The Columbia University website (and all other marketing collateral) identifies the school by its official brand name, Columbia University in the City of New York. The big photo at the top of the site (at least when I wrote this) wasnt the classic shot of Low Library, but a night shot of the Empire State Building. Not a happy student, enthusiastic prof, or tree (yes, there are trees in this urban enclave) in sight. I know at one point they mailed posters to applicants that didnt show the campus, but a spectacular view of the city skyline. Written materials Ive seen emphasized New York City as a playground for Columbia students and a key part of their undergraduate education. One key aspect of any branding effort is identifying the segment of the market one wants to appeal to. This may mean that your branding efforts may actually discourage some customers. That isnt all bad few brands are intended to appeal to 100% of the market. In Columbias case, their emphasis on being located in the heart of New York City will likely reduce interest from students to whom an urban campus holds no appeal, or who worry about giant rats. But thats a good thing these students would be unlikely to make it through the entire enrollment process anyway, and, if they did actually matriculate, might pose a retention problem. Does CUs branding work? In the last decade or two, they have outpaced almost all of their rivals in percentage increase in applications. A few years ago, I saw the results of research that asked students at a dozen or two of the nations most selective schools a variety of questions about their college process, current happiness, and so on. One of the questions asked whether location was important in the selection process. While virtually every school had a modest percentage who said that location was an factor, Columbia U was off the chart on that question with nearly half of the respondents citing the importance of location. Columbia College. Sticking with the Columbia theme for the moment, another school that has taken a focused approach to branding is Columbia College Chicago. (This school faces the additional challenge of brand confusion with the more famous Manhattan-based Columbia.) The tagline in one ad I viewed said simply, The largest and most diverse private arts and media college in the nation. Their self-description on their website is just a couple of paragraphs, and focuses on how their size and
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Chicago location let them offer an unparalleled array of courses with exceptional technological resources in the heart of one of Americas greatest cities. Few colleges, given the opportunity to answer the question, Tell me about your school, would be as brief and focused as Chicagos Columbia. Thats solid branding. Name Recognition vs. Brand Image. Even colleges with strong name recognition need to determine if they have built a brand. The two Columbias have done that, in my opinion, but many other schools may have familiar names but fuzzy brand images. What do they stand for? Whats unique about them? My colleague Sally Rubenstone has for years tried to launch an editorial feature on College Confidential with a working title, Whats So Special About? The premise was simple in an effort to help students differentiate between thousands of college options, let the colleges themselves identify those unique characteristics which separate them from the rest unique academic options, unusual campus amenities, and so on. Amazingly, most of the colleges Sally had contact with were unable to articulate a single truly unique advantage they offered their students. Instead, they recited the usual view book text about faculty who really interacted with students, study abroad programs, and so on. Last week, I heard Murphy Monroe, Admissions Director at the aforementioned Columbia College Chicago; speak about his schools recruitment process. Im sure had he been on Sallys contact list he would have summarized the key factors that differentiate Columbia from other art schools as quickly and succinctly as their website. Understanding whats so special about an institution is the first step to effective branding. Being unable to suggest anything about a college or university that differs from its peers is a branding problem. Emotional branding can be important, too. Budweiser beer may not taste much different than other American beers, but they have advertise for decades to distinguish their brand in emotional terms. Until institutions can internally develop their branding strategy, they wont be able to communicate what they stand for to others. And, when every high school senior is a lead at dozens of colleges, branding may well be the key factor in turning that lead into an applicant and eventually an enrolled student.
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NYIT Diploma Redesign & Analysis

Nameplate | Recognition | Perception
Currently, New York Institute of Technologys diplomas have sparse detailing with regard to font and appeal seen in previous NYIT diplomas and peer institutions. New York Institute of Technologys Official Diploma is detailed as such: The college nameplate New York Institute of Technology at the top line. Followed by the words: Be it known that upon recommendation of the faculty, the Board of Trustees of New York Institute of Technology, by virtue of authority vested in them by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, does herby confer upon. Followed by degree recipient name and graduating degree title. Coupled with the words: together with all the rights, titles, and responsibilities, pertaining thereto. In Witness Whereof, we have affixed our signatures and the seal of the college this (add graduating year). Together with the name of the president on the right and the board of trustees chair on the left with the seal of the college in the middle of their signatures. The diploma itself is concise and streamlined but may benefit from a broad based utilization of calligraphy as seen in NYIT diplomas formerly.
Official Seal Exhibition Study

In comparison to peer institutions, I closely studied the current official diploma of NYIT and juxtaposed it with other institutions to see how our seal matches up. The following study is conducted on pages 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48. Additionally this study is coupled with a proposed concept redesign of the seal but only related to font utilized.
NYIT Diploma Redesign & Analysis: Appeal | Diploma Imagery | Namesake
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Current NYIT Diploma Design
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Former NYIT Diploma Design
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Juxtapose to New York University Diploma
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Juxtapose to Columbia University Diploma
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Juxtapose to University of Chicago Diploma
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Juxtapose to Massachusetts Institute of Tech Diploma
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Proposed NYIT Diploma Redesign Concept

Official Seal Exhibition Study
The concept NYIT diploma seen on the left currently utilizes all the same wording and format placing as the current diploma given to graduates it only reincorporates calligraphy in the nameplate of the school. As this is only a concept, the calligraphy font would need to be incorporated further into the detailing of the text otherwise, with only the nameplate of the school in calligraphy, it would appear less streamlined with the total vision of the document.
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Process of Implementation
Timeline of Initiative Implementation
This proposal seeks to fundamentally change the way that tradition, culture, and history is perceived, treated, and understood within New York Institute of Technology. Furthermore, this proposal will re-distinguish the scale, outlook and prospects of New York Institute of Technology to include initiatives explained across a short timeline in the for greater depth and more precise utilization. The bipartisan committee that this proposal creates would be directly responsible for tracking the effectiveness of the proposals endeavors. A concept of the first two years would be as follows:
Implementation Concept, Year One:

The most effective implementations and least costly in the first year of the pilot program would be as follows: Improved Mascot visibility on all global campuses and increased functionality in NYIT campus life programs, engagements, and community events. History and Tradition signage can be incorporated throughout the campus in both tangible and non-tangible forms to better utilize a sense of connection with students.
1. The NYIT floating campus highlights on the newsfeed screens across campus can have a detailing of the proposed history and tradition spotlights deemed necessary. 2. Tangible signs can be installed only on NYIT buildings that denote particular names i.e. Edward Guiliano, Harry Schure, Anna Rubin, to highlight there contribution and bring significance to why the building bears their nameplate. The student run Estate Yearbook for graduating seniors can be re-implemented by the student staff at the Campus Slate Newspaper. New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal Process of Implementation: Timeline of Initiative Implementation Page: 49
The presidential welcome redesign can be implemented within the quad as suggested. Campus Life can institute the initiatives for a Glee Club, Pep-Rallys, and Full Campus-wide events. Athletics can reinstitute a formal Homecoming tied to a Basketball game falling on Homecoming Weekend, denoting a full-campus wide tradition and instituting a Mr. and Mrs. NYIT.
Implementation Concept, Year Two:

The most effective implementations and least costly in the first year of the pilot program would be as follows: Presidential exploratory committee can be instituted to determine avenues for an official seal redesign. Presidential exploratory committee can be instituted to determine avenues for an official motto implementation. Presidential exploratory committee can be instituted to determine avenues for an official Diploma redesign. Tangible signs can be installed on NYIT global buildings that denote particular names i.e. Edward Guiliano, Harry Schure, Anna Rubin, to highlight there contribution and bring significance to why the building bears their nameplate.
Process of Implementation: Timeline of Initiative Implementation
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Conclusions
The Future Lives Here | Prospects for Greatness
In January of 2012, while working at the NYIT Office of Housing & Residential Life I began to compile a Strategic Engagement & Retention Initiative Plan for NYIT. The time was opportune from many respects. There have been significant changes in NYITs Student Affairs philosophy, vision, and direction; there have been significant changes in NYIT as it relates to its global footprint, vision, and values; most importantly, NYIT had completed its long term strategic plan: NYIT 2030. Based on all of these new strategic plans, which is prepared by full participation from the whole NYIT community, I wrote my support for NYIT from a student perspective to assist NYIT achieving its vision, values, and goals of the NYIT 2030 plan. In the following 15 months a multi-tiered, fully collaborative and participatory process was carried out. Getting feedback from currents, staff, faculty, and alumni, the charge and the process was designed, mapped out, and finalized. Special attention was paid to make sure that the process includes full participation by all parties. Most importantly, feedback from global students was strongly sought after. Additionally, the needs of global students were expressly included in the review and analysis. Overall the planning process was very successful. I had achieved a very high level of feedback from the community. This fact provides a high level of confidence that the observations, findings, goals, and initiatives, which resulted from the process, are highly representative of the whole NYIT community. The planning process recognized the recent improvements and strengths of NYIT, as well as identifying future opportunities for further improvements and refinements which will support NYIT 2030 and enable NYIT to further itself as a unique and exemplary institution of global higher education. This is accomplished by identification of seven specific goals and many initiatives, which will enable these goals. Conclusions: Premonitions of the Future Page: 51
These goals were created to address the areas of NYIT to realign the identified in weaknesses and threats of retention and student productiveness. NYIT should monitor this plans implementation, assess results, and modify plan on a yearly basis. NYIT should communicate with the NYIT local and global community on the status of the implementation efforts. The major themes that emerged as part of the plan include improving the global access to history and tradition, establishing and enabling a superior collaborative student environment and resources, revisiting the design of the NYIT seal, establishing and improving an retention analysis and reporting environment, updating history and tradition content all the web sites, improving levels of service, and establishing a stronger student voice in NYIT governance.
This would lead to collaboration with the community to provide advancements otherwise not possible. In the upcoming years NYIT will be working with all parties to implement these goals and initiatives. But more importantly, the progress will be reviewed and assessed on an annual basis. Required course and condition corrections will be implemented to make sure that we are always progressing in the direction to support NYIT in its short and long term goals and objectives. NYIT will have a well-deserved reputation, both internally among the community and externally among our peers, for caring about students. Students will actively contribute to university life in all its aspects. Both commuting and residential students will have the benefit of exemplary services, infrastructure, and participation in a wide array of academic, social, athletic and recreational opportunities. Teaching and learning will be closely aligned with student needs and professional goals and students will be actively engaged in learning. Shared events and rituals will create cohesiveness among students, faculty, staff, administration, alumni, and families. NYIT alumni will remain involved in the institution, contributing not only financially but also by offering experiential education and mentoring opportunities for current students.
Conclusions: Premonitions of the Future
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Epilogue
Purpose or Perish
E pluribus unum, Latin for, "out of many, one". This is the official motto of United States of America, the meaning of which also holds a resounding theme for NYIT. With no bearing on campus location, or where our students lie across the globe, we are one NYIT: one vision, one goal, intertwined by one heart. As one body, we can transcend anything! I believe NYIT has unconsciously marginalized and sacrificed its past in order to guide us into our global future. While this may have been somewhat necessary to propel us to where we now stand as an institution, we must realize that losing our past means losing ourselves. The importance of continuity and shared experiences among students, past and present, cannot be overestimated. We are all bound to those of yesteryear in spirit, but today's NYIT sees little of their lost legacy. Our hearts were made with the same unwavering spirits as those of our alma mater, and it is that very notion that guides us and leads our global community. While we may be a global institution, with diverse students and campuses all over the world, we are united not only by educational pursuits, but by our unfaltering pride and dedication to one another. If these initiatives are adopted, it will strengthen the ties that we hold globally: in heart, mind, spirit, and legacy. Pictured right are NYITs first President Dr. Alexander Schure (right) and his son; NYITs second President Dr. Matthew Schure (left), just prior to a commencement ceremony at the De Seversky Center. Pictured above them is Dr. Alexander Schures late wife, Dorothy Schure who had lost her battle to cancer a few years prior.
Epilogue: Purpose or Perish
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Endorsement
Steadfast Conviction | Enduring Hope
In todays realm where cynicism and doubt halt the endeavors of the prudent from being the change they wish to see in our community, I found myself in a unique predicament: I was challenged with communicating a reason to change a school policy. I largely ignored every naysayer who cast pessimism and doubt over my goal and pressed on with my endeavor; I am stronger than cynicism and braver than doubt. In doing so, I cultivated this proposal as a tool for my institutions leaders to use to enhance the quality of life for students, faculty, staff, and our global community. My proposal rearticulates college policy within the institution. The nature of our heritage would be interactive and integrated to support strong student development, inclusiveness, retention, and most importantly, pride in our community. I utilized my daily experience in reflective dialogue with my peers and used what I learned from them to transform current procedures. Thank you to all of our alumni whose feedback and questions prompted me to write this message, and all of those who through their involvement and support provide the living example of the most important NYIT tradition of all our unwavering commitment to excellence.
In brotherhood,
Brandon Chase Llone, Author NYIT Student, Class of 2013
Chelseyann Bipat, Editor & Contributor NYIT Student, Class of 2013
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Student Information
Degree Recipient: Brandon Llone Institution: New York Institute of Technology Discipline: Bachelor of Science, Political Science School: College of Arts & Sciences Period: Class of 2013 Email: bsanfo02@nyit.edu
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About the Author

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New York Institute of Technology The Antiquity Proposal

About the Author: When Determination Leads to Innovation

Reflections From a Student

This is an exciting time to be a NYiT student we are on the move.

Brandon Chase Llone, Author

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Reflections From a Student: Realizing the Promise of Greatness

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Preface: Heritage | Tradition | Birthright

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Executive Summary: Statement of Purpose | Goal | Tradition

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Abstract: Analysis | Vision | Approach

These program initiatives are as follows:

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Abstract: Analysis | Vision | Approach

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Abstract: Analysis | Vision | Approach

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Abstract: Analysis | Vision | Approach

The Gates of Antiquity

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The Gates of Antiquity: NYiT: The Paragon of Pastless nes s

Our Audacious Legacy

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Our Audacious Legacy: The Future | Perfecting by the Past

History | Tradition: Signage Initiative

History | Tradition: Improved Webpage Integration

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History | Tradition: Faculty & Staff Incorporation

History | Tradition: Athletics Integration

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Implementation of an Official University Motto

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