SUNY Offering Free Online Training Center for New Yorkers
A new free, statewide campaign has been created to give New Yorkers a clear pathway to college and careers in a post-COVID economy.
Registration is now open for students to enroll for the spring semester. Students that complete any of the Online Training Center certificates and hold a high school diploma or a high school equivalency credential will be automatically accepted to any of SUNY s 30 community colleges or SUNY Empire State College.
What s even better? When I was applying to colleges, I feel like I spent an arm and a leg on application fees. Not only does this put students in the right direction by completing those training sessions, but having the application fee waived will be a huge sigh of relief for many.
ALBANY, N.Y. â State University of New York has launched a free Online Training Center to give more New Yorkers a gateway to college, no matter where they live across the state.
The center, announced by State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras, features high school equivalency, college prep, and employment certification programs.
As phase one of Malatrasâ new SUNY For All campaign to expand access to higher education, the center will prepare eligible students for college and post-COVID careers with training and success coaches to guide them.
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Eligible students must be a New York state resident from a low- or moderate-income household, without a post-secondary degree, who may be unemployed or recently laid off.
Matthew Gill ’18, MS ’19, was recently named the 2020 Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by the New York Small Business Development Center (NYSBDC) for his work developing virtual reality simulators for education experiences, such as those for school environments and for recruitment into trade disciplines.
Gill is the founder and lead developer of Enhance-VR, a small company headquartered in Binghamton University’s Koffman Southern Tier Incubator that creates content through virtual and augmented reality technology. The company originated from a HackBU skiing simulator project in 2015, and was officially launched in 2017, one year before Gill graduated from the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science with his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He earned his master’s in the same field in 2019.