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News, Publications & Research

Mark Phillips: a season of essays, reviews and reflections

Sep 24, 2025 | Mark Phillips, retired tutor and teacher with the SBU Higher Education Opportunity Program, had three essays and a book review published this spring and summer.

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Hope and opportunity bring student speaker to Commencement podium

May 12, 2025 | Hope — and a door to opportunity held open — brought Anas Alami to º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ four years ago. Today, this once-shy Brooklyn native who navigated the foster care system has been selected as the student speaker for SBU’s 165th Commencement Exercises on May 18.

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Essays by SBU's Phillips to be published; memoir to return in hardcover

May 01, 2025 | Essays by Mark Phillips, retired teacher and tutor with the SBU Higher Education Opportunity Program, are forthcoming in the May-June issue of Adirondack Life, summer's American Scholar literary magazine, and the autumn issue of Notre Dame Magazine.

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Buttafarro and Smith present at NYSACAC Conference

Sep 07, 2023 | Tom Buttafarro, director of government & community relations, and Cindy Smith, director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program, presented at the statewide conference of the New York State Association of College Admissions Counselors (NYSACAC), hosted by º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ in May.

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