At Nyack's 2014 Commencement ceremony, three distinguished individuals will be added to our roster of honorary degree recipients: Mark Burnett, Roma Downey (20th Century Fox film Son of God co-producers), and Lord Edmiston (British Parliament member). In addition to receiving the Doctor of Letters, they will also be inducted into the President's Hall of Distinction. The Hall of Distinction was established in 2008 by Nyack's 12th president, Dr. Michael G. Scales, to commemorate the doctoral honorees and others of outstanding public influence. The 131st ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students will be held in the 4,400 seat auditorium of the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY on Saturday, May 10.

 

Click here to read more about the honorary degree recipients.

 

Rev. Gershwin Grant, the first Alliance Theological Seminary (ATS) Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) candidate, successfully defended his dissertation, "Evaluating a Spiritually Formed Prayer Immersion Program for Members of the Conservative Baptist Church," on March 17. This milestone event took place at the Rockland County campus of the seminary. Dr. Ronald Walborn, ATS dean, moderated the oral defense, which was overseen by Dr. Frank Chan, coordinator for D.Min. dissertations.

 

Pictured above are (l-r) Dr. Paul de Vries, Dr. Ronald Walborn, Rev. Gershwin Grant, Mrs. Cynthia Grant, Dr. Torrey Robinson, and Dr. Frank Chan.

 

Born in London, England, Gershwin Francis Emmanuel Grant and his family moved to New York City when he was just a teenager. While attending the New York Institute of Technology to earn a degree in architecture, he became a Christian. Five years into his career as an architect, he pursued a career change to ministry by studying evenings and weekends at the New York School of the Bible, Seminary of the East, and Alliance Theological Seminary, while still employed by WYS Design Architects.

 

Rev. Grant has served as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Ossining, NY since 2003.

 

The dissertation committee included Dr. Paul de Vries, president of the New York Divinity School, who is also pastor of Immanuel Community Church in Manhattan and Dr. Torrey Robinson, pastor of First Baptist Church of Tarrytown.

 

Congratulations to Rev. and Mrs. Grant!

 

About the Doctor of Ministry Program at 

Alliance Theological Seminary

The Doctor of Ministry is the first doctoral program offered at Nyack/ATS. The three-year program has seven different cohorts in progress. More than 90 students are active in the program. Students range in age from 28 to 60+ years. They hail from more than 30 different countries and from more than 20 different denominations.

The Center for Scholarship and Global Engagement will be hosting their Third Annual Student Research Conference titled "Making a Difference: Contributions from our Disciplines," Thursday, April 10, 2014 in Bowman Gymnasium on the Rockland campus from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Marcy Kelly, who is a professor and assistant chair in the Department of Biology and Health Sciences at Pace University-NYC. The Center for Scholarship and Global Engagement will host its Third Student Research Conference, Thursday, April 10 on Nyack's Rockland County campus from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm in Bowman Gymnasium. With the theme, "Making a Difference: Contributions from our Disciplines" CSGE will welcome keynote speaker, Dr. Marcy Kelly, professor and assistant chair of the department of Biology and Health Sciences at Pace University in New York City.

Dr. Kelly earned her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Rutgers University-Newark. In addition to her teaching accomplishments with undergraduate biology and pre-health majors in the classroom and teaching laboratory at Pace University, Dr. Kelly maintains two active research programs. Her undergraduate research laboratory work focuses on the interaction between a model organism for tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis-BCG, and molecules produced by the human immune response. She is also currently in contract to develop a first-year biology major laboratory manual to introduce students to scientific research. Dr. Kelly has two publications in peer-reviewed educational journals and she is currently the research editor for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) education journal, Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. She is the lead facilitator for the ASM Biology Scholars Program Transitions Residency to assist undergraduate faculty with the development of educational assessment manuscripts for publication.

Click here to learn more about CSGE and upcoming events.

  

As a part of its "Building Community Project," Aramark employees around the world recently participated in Global Volunteer Day. The team that services Nyack College chose to collect donations and create New Mother Kits for Care Net Pregnancy Center in Spring Valley, NY. With a "wish list" from Gloria Calo, Care Net's executive director, vendors were invited to contribute or offer discounts on items to be included in the kits. Marc Fahringer, Aramark district manager, supervised the project which was coordinated by Amelia Dantas and Debby Paine.

 

Nyack College and the Aramark staff were very generous in giving, which resulted in more than $5,000.00 worth of items on the Care Net's Wish List being collected and 50 New Mother Kits being put together. In addition to the kits, the Spring Valley organization received cases of diapers, strollers, car seats, pack 'n plays, computers, a microwave, and a projector.

 

Kudos to the volunteers for this wonderful outpouring of love and compassion!

  

The Nyack College New York City campus Chorale will be featured in three performances in Queens (Richmond Hill), Nyack, and Lewisburg, PA (April 11-13).

 

The music reflects the Lenten Season with themes focusing on Christ's life, suffering, sacrifice, death, and resurrection. The centerpiece of the program is a larger work, Son of God Mass, by James Whitbourn. This reflective and moving contemporary work is scored for full chorus, organ, and soprano saxophone and will feature graduating senior, Dudley Salmon. Student conductor, Ezra Davis, will conduct W.A. Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus."

 

The Friday, April 11 (7:30 pm) concert at Elohim Christian Church in Queens will also feature the Nyack College Christian Folk Ensemble as well as a NYC-based Christian community chorus, the Jubilee Chorus.

 

The Saturday event (3:00 pm) will take place at First Reformed Church of Nyack. We look forward to ministering at Dean Arzola's church.

 

The Palm Sunday service (10:15 am) will take place at Lewisburg Alliance Church in Lewisburg, PA. The Chorale was introduced to Rev. Rubens Ruba while on tour in Florida this past January.

 

Admission is free and all are welcome.

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Hooding Ceremonies

AGSC:

Tuesday, May 6, 4:30 pm

The Venetian

546 River Drive

Garfield, NJ

MBA/MSOL:

Thursday, May 8, 11:00 am 

Casa Mia Manor House

577 Route 303

Blauvelt, NY

ATS: 

Thursday, May 8, 7:00 pm

Bethel Gospel Assembly

2-26 East 120th Street

New York, NY

MSED: 

Friday, May 9, 12:00 pm

Presidents' Hall, 

Shuman Hall

School of Nursing 

Pinning Ceremony: 

Friday, May 9, 3:00 pm 

Pardington Hall

Nyack, NY

 

Baccalaureate

Manhattan: 

Wed., May 7, 6:00 pm 

Music Auditorium, 

Room 2241

Reception following

Rockland: 

Friday, May 9, 7:00 pm 

Bowman Gymnasium

Reception following in the gym

 

Commencement

Saturday, May 10, 2:00 pm 

Westchester County Center

198 Central Ave

White Plains, NY

This year's scholarship fundraiser event will be held at the Ballyowen Golf Club in Hamburg, NJ, a world-class Irish links-style course, rated a premier NJ Golf Course by New Jersey Monthly. Register by May 30 to receive the early bird rate. All registrants will receive a free round of golf at the Crystal Springs Cascades Course! For more information or to register, click here or contact Earl Miller at 845-675-4791 or Earl.Miller@nyack.edu. Hope to see you on the green!

Nyack Rockland's annual Homecoming Weekend will be October 10-11, 2014. Check the Homecoming webpage for details to come soon!

Nyack's Spring Production is J.B.

J.B., the 1959 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play is the Nyack College spring production this year.

 

Performances began April 4, and will continue through this weekend at the Hilltop Auditorium. Upcoming performances are as follows:

Friday, April 11 at 7:00 pm

Saturday, April 12 at 7:00 pm

Sunday, April 13 at 4:00 pm

 

General admission is $10; student admission is $5.

 

Come out and support our students and enjoy their incredible talent!  For more information, please contact Dr. Kevin Pinkham at kevin.pinkham@nyack.edu.

ROCKLAND CAMPUS

 

Undergraduate:

 

Visit Days 2014

Monday, April 14

Monday, October 13

 

Visit Weekend 2014

Sunday-Monday, 

November 9-10

For more information, call 800.336.9225 or visit http://nyack.edu/fcs/visit.

 

Schedule a day at your convenience to check out classes, tour the campus, attend chapel, and get important financial aid and admissions information.   

During the school year (Sept-Apr), personalized campus visits are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays beginning at 10 am.

 

During the summer months (May-Aug), please call 1-800-33-NYACK to set up a visit.

 

MANHATTAN CAMPUS

 

Join other prospective students to learn more about our education, music, business, ministry, and liberal arts majors. We'll give an overview of the application process and discuss financial aid opportunities.

 

Open House for Undergraduate, Adult, and Graduate Programs

The following open houses will be held at 2 Washington Street, New York, NY.

 

Saturday, May 31, 11:00 am

Wed., June 18, 6:00 pm

Wed., July 16, 6:00 pm

Wed., August 13, 6:00 pm

Sat., September 27, 11:00 am

Sat., October 18, 11:00 am

Sat., November 15, 11:00 am

Sat., December 6, 11:00 am

 

The Alliance Graduate School of Intercultural Studies and Mission has released their 2014 Fall Offerings. Click here to view the list.