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🖊️ Strategic Plan: Share your thoughts, as often as you like, in this Strategic Plan Suggestion Box. Feedback is shared with planning groups every week.
☕ No Coffee Hour this week: In the meantime, save the Zoom link to your calendar; find recordings of previous Coffee Hours; see the schedule or sign up to present; or email the Coffee Hour team at innovation@sage.edu.
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Regalia Rental for Commencement: Please Order by March 24
If you are participating in commencement or other end-of-semester events requiring academic regalia (PT Hooding, Nursing Pinning, etc.) and need to rent regalia, now’s the time to place your order!
To rent regalia, please email 1pettc@sage.edu by Monday, March 24, at 4 p.m. (Even if you previously rented, please confirm again this year.)
Please provide your:
- Height
- Jacket or dress size (please indicate if over 250 lbs., gown may not fit otherwise)
- Hat size (measure around widest part of forehead)
- Degree and field of study (for example, Master of Science in Chemistry)
- College or university and its city and state;
- Workday contact information.
A note: The rental option is only available to faculty, staff, and administrators—please don’t share this information with graduating students.
Pricing:
- Bachelor unit (cap/gown/tassel/hood): $ 66.00 + tax
- Masters unit (cap/gown/tassel/hood): $ 72.00 + tax
- Doctoral unit (cap/gown/tassel/hood): $ 82.00 + tax
- Doctoral unit (tam/gown/tassel/hood): $ 118.00 + tax
- Individual regalia components (gown, hood, cap or tam, tassel) may be also be rented.
Important to know:
- Payment is required at pick-up at M.O.S.S. Books in Gurley Hall, Troy
- Regalia should be returned as soon as possible following the ceremonies
- The bookstore is open Mondays to Thursdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and Friday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Closed Friday and Saturday.
- Shipping available for $7.99.
- Orders received after March 24 incur additional shipping charges.
Email 1pettc@sage.edu or call 518-274-0199 for additional information.
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Media Members Visit Albany Campus for Preview of Women's Flag Football
Marketing and Communications and Athletics — including 13 student-athletes and Chompers — hosted a flag football showcase on the Albany campus for members of the media on Wednesday, March 6. WTEN-News10 interviewed Associate Director of Athletics Erica Faas-Li and students Alia Charles and Madeline Mott during the event: Watch Women’s flag football coming to Russell Sage College. And stay tuned to upcoming stories from the Times Union and Spectrum News.
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Open Educational Resources
Grant Opportunity for Faculty
The RSC library is accepting applications from faculty members for the 2025-26 OER Grant for faculty members.
Please see the grant website for more information. Applications are due by April 22.
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AI’s Impact in Higher Education – Two Upcoming Sessions
Learn about the evolving role of artificial intelligence in higher education via two upcoming, free opportunities:
🔹 Embracing Co-Intelligence: Unlocking the Power of AI for Faculty and Administrators, Tuesday, March 25: Discover how AI can enhance teaching, learning, and administrative work in this webinar from New American Colleges and Universities. Register here at no cost.
🔹 AI’s Impact on Admissions, now Wednesday, March 26, 9-11:30 a.m., on Zoom: This rescheduled panel discussion, hosted by the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling, will explore AI’s influence on college admissions. Register for free with the code HOSTSITE.
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Help Create a Meditation Labyrinth
Join Judith Helfand, affiliate scholar of the Denise Taber Finard '80 Women's Institute, on Wednesday, March 19, at 1 p.m., next to Finard House, Troy, to install a rock meditation labyrinth marking five years since the COVID-19 shutdown. Participants are invited to write about something that helped you heal on a rock and add it to the labyrinth.
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Spring Break Hours for Bookstores, Campus Dining
M.O.S.S. Books in Troy is closed this week. The Albany bookstore is open through Wednesday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., but
closed Thursday and Friday. Always open online!
All campus dining locations are closed this week.
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Please Encourage Grad Students to Nominate a Faculty Member for the Terry Cannizzaro Award
Please encourage graduate students to nominate an outstanding faculty member for the Terry M. Cannizzaro ’11, ’14 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award.
Nominations are due by April 11; email provost@sage.edu with questions.
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Win Amazon Gift Cards in Recreation and Fitness's NCAA
Basketball Tournament Challenge!
Get ready for some March Madness! Sign up for Rec and Fitness’s NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament challenges for a chance to win Amazon gift cards.
🏀Men's Tournament challenge
(If you don’t have an account yet, create a free one to participate!)
🏀 Women's Tournament Challenge
League Name: Russell Sage 2025 Tournament Challenge
Group Password: thrive@rsc2025
Prizes for the top three finishers in both the Women's and Men's brackets! Be sure to use your full name when entering so the organizers can easily identify the winners. Questions? Email Joe Michaud. Good luck!
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RSC Recommends: What We Are Reading, Watching, Listening to, Enjoying
Please share your recommendations!
Recommended this week, by Videographer Lexie Mulligan, is Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis. Lexie writes, "I just finished this first entry in C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, and I really enjoyed it. It is a classic science fiction book with rich world building, a pretty fleshed-out Martian language (if that's your thing), and a compelling philosophical exploration on what it might mean if the human race were only just a small piece of the universe's lore and many ways of life beyond Earth."
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From the Office of the Provost: Tenure, Promotion, and Sabbaticals
Congratulations to the following faculty members:
Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor
- Katrin Ramsey, Sc.D., Physical Therapy
- Peter Stapleton, Ph.D., Physical Education
- Julie Verdette-Lindenbaum, Ph.D., Psychology
Promotion to Professor
- Marisa Beeble, Ph.D., Psychology
Promotion to Associate Professor of the Practice
- Kimberly Brayton, Ph.D., Forensic Mental Health
- Kelly Brock, Ph.D., Education
2025-2026 Sabbaticals
- Matthew McElligott, M.A., professor, Graphic Design
- Marisa Beeble, Ph.D., associate professor, Psychology, fall 2025
- Cheryl Ostryn, Ph.D., associate professor, Education, fall 2025
- Elizabethe Kelley, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English, spring 2026
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RSC's Winning Streak
"Thank you to Director of Alumni Relations Fran Vorsky! When I needed to give an alumna information about getting an alumna card, she was very helpful. Teamwork makes the dream work!" -Marcie Falquez, Senior Library Specialist-Access Services
"Shoutout to Martin McCormack in Facilities for assisting me with furniture movement just as a favor and not as part of the job. I appreciate your constant help!" -Mike Rossman, Director of College Services
Please help RSC reach 100 WoW entries in 2025 by posting to the Wall/Google Doc of Wins. Let us know what you'd include on your department's "highlight reel," shout out your colleagues, and brag about yourself a little, too!
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Tuesday, March 18
✨ Open Discussion with Chaplain Darren Gundrum, noon, Buchman, Troy
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Wednesday, March 19
📸 Professional Headshots, noon-2 p.m., lobby outside Career and Self-Discovery Center, Albany
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Friday, March 21
🏋🏽♀️Group Fitness Training, 5 p.m., McKinstry Fitness Center, Troy.
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Wednesday March 26
💲Meet with a TIAA Financial Consultant, 9 a.m-4 p.m., Cowee third floor conference room, Troy. Register at tiaa.org/schedulenow or call 800-732-8353. A TIAA consultant will also be in Troy on Thursday, April 24.
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Upcoming Deadlines
Click on the button below to send us an email. Please use the same deadlines and email address to submit announcements to Coffee Break for employees and Solutions: The Newsletter for students.
Please send your news by 5 p.m. March 19 for the March 24 issue.
Please send your news by 5 p.m. March 26 for the March 31 issue.
Please send your news by 5 p.m. April 2 for the April 7 issue.
Please send your news by 5 p.m. April 9 for the April 14 issue.
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