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New York Tech faculty and staff, please join us on Thursday, September 3, for Convocation 2026. Kick off your academic year with presentations by President Jerry Balentine and other university leaders, as we also celebrate this year's Presidential Excellence Award recipients. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. For New York City campus faculty and staff, there will be a viewing location and lunch beginning at 11 a.m. at 1855 Broadway in the 12th-floor conference room. Jonesboro and Vancouver faculty and staff will receive a link to view the Convocation live stream on the morning of September 3, via email, and have the option of checking back on this event page. Shuttle bus service will be available on a continuous loop between the Long Island campus to the Hicksville train station on September 3 from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for people coming from New York City. Please feel free to bring a non-perishable food donation for New York Tech's Grizzly Cupboard (https://www.nyit.edu/student-life/support/bear-bytes/#cupboard), our food and resource pantry. Alternately, please bring new and gently-used dry-cleaned clothing for Tech Threads (https://www.nyit.edu/student-life/support/tech-threads/), our professional closet resource.Register (https://apps.nyit.edu/forms/convocation-rsvp)

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Celebrate the beginning of your academic career at New York Tech! This online convocation presentation is mandatory for new students. It showcases New York Tech's exciting, engaging, inclusive, and transformative environment as well as our commitment to your academic and personal success. This virtual event features watch parties on both New York campuses. Light refreshments will be served. Please consider attending at one of these locations:New York City campus: 16 W. 61st St., 11th-floor auditorium Long Island campus: Harry Schure Hall, room 130 Student Registration (https://apply.nyit.edu/apply/form?id=6690c0e3-4c9a-42b9-a5e9-49e14b8086ff)Faculty and Staff Registration (https://apply.nyit.edu/register/?id=bcf0a8fa-90dc-4909-b97e-f11ed9775f25) AgendaWelcomeYashvi Patel, Student Government Association President, Long Island campus GreetingsDaniel Grassian, Ph.D., Provost and Executive Vice President President's RemarksJerry Balentine, D.O., FACEP, New York Tech President Alumni RemarksJulia Andor (B.ARCH. '23, Architecture), Northeast Regional Director, ACE Mentor Program (Architecture, Construction, and Engineering) Cameron Little (B.S. '20, Mechanical Engineering), Senior Analyst, Process and Performance Improvement, National Grid, Customer Contact Center, New England Presentation Of New Students And The University Honor CodeBest Justus, Student Government Association President, New York City campus Closing RemarksTiffani L. Hinds, Ed.D., Associate Provost for Student Engagement and Development

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