Develop and internship program for those that do not wish to go on the training ship during the summer sea term. Several Board members, including myself, have met with Admiral Brown to discuss these points. The college and SUNY central are not willing to delay this plan, by even one year, while efforts to assist in the marketing and enrollment management plan, solely based on a regimental, license, ship board college experience are given a fair chance. The Campaign needs Alumni and friends of the College to write to the attached list of legislators an SUNY officials. Let them know that you, as a Maritime College alumnus or friend of the College, are deeply concerned that far-reaching program changes are being rushed into place at SUNY Maritime without sufficient study or adequate definition.
Urgent intervention is needed from our elected officials.
They return to Albany the first week of January. These are the programs that make Fort Schuyler the state's most unique educational institution. Tell your legislators that you do not want the 125-year successful institution diminished in any way. Instead, the College should build upon those successful and unique programs with new curricula, new marketing, new recruiting efforts and new infrastructure so that the College can move into the next century. The Alumni Association has stated that it will help the College with those programs.