Deborah Kaufman

Funds for Ulster Students!

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pile of bills with text overlay: college funds

Two avenues for getting help paying for college-related expenses include the CARES Act and SUNY Pathways Scholars. Do you qualify?

SUNY Pathways Scholars Award

 2020 High School Grads: Did you graduate with an 80% or higher average? Are you planning to go to a SUNY Four-year to pursue your Bachelor’s? If so, you could be awarded up to $1500 for completing your degree in two years at SUNY Ulster!

To find out more about the SUNY Pathways Scholars Program, follow the easy Admissions steps. During your registration appointment ask about the SUNY Pathways Scholars Program!

 CARES Act Emergency Funding

SUNY Ulster students who have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak can now access up to $1100 in emergency funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Funding is now available through the Financial Aid office to assist students with expenses related to disruptions to their education due to the pandemic.  Funds include eligible expenses under a student’s cost of attendance such as food, housing, course materials like books, technology, and healthcare, among other expenses.

The Enrollment & Success Center Can Help!

SUNY Ulster’s Enrollment & Success Center is ready to help you apply, register, and get all the funding you need to get started on your degree.

You can contact the SUNY Ulster Enrollment & Success Center at ESC@sunyulster.edu

10 Theater Tidbits

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SUNY Ulster Theatre Department Gets Ready for a Performance.

 

When the curtain goes up for SUNY Ulster’s Theater productions, countless hours of work by students, faculty, community members and volunteers have gone into making the show possible. Here’s a peak at 10 things that happen behind the scenes:

  • Did you know Theater Costumer Aletta Vett travels on average 1,500 miles a production in search of the perfect thrift-store and yard sale bargains, fabrics, accessories and wigs to costume our student performers?
  • Bolts of fabric. Yards and yard of thread. Packages of dye. Dress manikins. Patterns and sewing machines. These are some of the tools of the trade for costume.
  • The Fall 2014 production of “Six One Act Plays by Christopher Durang” had 25 actors and 44 costumes, but with the accessories and pieces like bags, jewelry and shoes that totals hundreds of items to track.
  • Costumes are washed every night and arranged on large racks alphabetically by the actors’ last name with each individual piece hung in the order it will be put on – just like they do on Broadway. The order takes away the stress so actors can concentrate on their performances.
  • SUNY Ulster students have learned how to stitch and build costumes, replace buttons, make extensions, add sequins and more by Costumer Aletta Vett, who once sewed kilts for a living in her “retirement” and has been with SUNY Ulster for nearly a decade.
  • Students never wear their own clothing for costumes – with the exception of large size shoes that are hard to find.
  • Helping in the costume shop is a course requirement for Theater Production Participation credit. Students can be found ironing costumes, organizing accessories and getting fitted in between classes.
  • The costumes for “Six One Act Plays by Christopher Durang” were inspired by the mid 1980s and featured bright colors – except for the mourners in “Funeral Parlor” who wore black with pearl necklaces with the exception of one outrageous mourner who wore a lavender shirt and tie.
  • SUNY Ulster Theatre students have plenty of fun outside the classroom too. This Halloween, students haunted the Hurley Cemetery for the Ghost Walk Tour.
  • Costumer Aletta Vett says she loves working with the enthusiastic students in SUNY Ulster’s Theatre Department and there’s nothing like the energy backstage after opening night. “They are flying with energy,” she says. “It’s an amazing accomplishment.”