SUNY Maritime College Annual Report 2021-2022

Letter from THE PRESIDENT

As I look back on the 2021-2022 academic and fiscal year, I am grateful for a year that allowed students, faculty and staff to successfully thrive in a safe learning, teaching and working environment. All campus activities, sports and clubs completely resumed in the fall semester and the spring semester brought a multitude of activity. Students in the Regiment of Cadets set sail on a 134-day Summer Sea Term that spanned various parts of the nation and globe, including A Coruña, Spain, the Canary Islands and Iceland. We also celebrated the return of the Admiral’s Dinner to campus and enjoyed a Homecoming event filled with proud alumni who were happy to be reunited at Fort Schuyler once again. Throughout the challenges of 2021-2022, giving to Maritime College has endured. The pages that follow offer a glimpse of giving throughout the years since the inception of the SUNY Maritime Foundation, Inc. in 2017. Meaningful giving stories highlighted in this Report include the donor profile of alum Captain Mang Vo ’81, corporate donors such as McAllister Towing and Transportation, and a student testimonial. The generosity of donors, alumni and friends listed in this Report has impacted students, faculty, programs and initiatives of the College, and culminated in the groundbreaking of a technologically advanced seamanship center that will benefit generations of mariners to come. In addition to several capital improvement projects on campus such as the completion of the new Student Learning Center and the Marine Engineering Systems Laboratory, we celebrated the keel laying of the first National Security Multi-Mission Vessel, the Training Ship Empire State VII, on December 10, 2021. We enjoyed watching its progression as sections were added throughout the spring of 2022. Awaiting launch, outfitting and sea trials, we look forward to being the first state maritime academy to receive the first a fleet of new training ships in 2023. Thank you for your continued support of Maritime College and for presenting our students with an extraordinary opportunity to access a distinct learning experience that will deliver a rewarding maritime career.

The generosity of donors, alumni and friends listed in this Report has impacted students, faculty, programs and initiatives of the College, and culminated in the groundbreaking of a technologically advanced seamanship center that will benefit generations of mariners to come.

RADM Michael A. Alfultis, USMS, Ph.D. President

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