Past Projects
Digital Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (DASH) Lab
Located on the main floor of the Sojourner Truth Library, the DASH Lab is an interdisciplinary, collaborative space where students, faculty, and staff from across the campus come together to learn how to use and create digital tools and projects, including maps, archives, data visualizations, video essays, and podcasts.
The DASH Lab officially opened in the Sojourner Truth Library Fall of 2017 and relies on a dedicated group of faculty, staff and students (the DASH Board and DASH Lab interns) to provide the campus community with high quality digital technology and pedagogy training in support of interdisciplinary digital scholarship and creative projects.
Renaming the Hasbrouck Complex Buildings:
Diversity & Inclusion on the SUNY New Paltz Campus
The SUNY New Paltz Digital Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (DASH) Lab, in collaboration with New Paltz Campus TelevisionWNPC-TV, produced a video to support campus efforts to create a “community built on the values of inclusion, diversity, and equity, while fostering a community grounded in justice, civility, and respect” (excerpt of the Diversity and Inclusion Mission Statement, SUNY New Paltz).
BACKGROUND:
In August of 2017, SUNY New Paltz President Don Christian gave the campus Diversity and Inclusion Council a formal charge to lead the dialogue (and research) on the Hasbrouck Building Complex names. In May of 2018, after almost a year of campus dialogue, discussion and research (archival and surveys), the Diversity and Inclusion Council delivered a report to the President with their recommendation that the names be changed. The President read the report and deliberated over the summer of 2018 and announced his support of the name change that fall.
The decision was then passed up to the SUNY New Paltz College Council.
On November 1st, 2018, the SUNY New Paltz College Council decided to delay the vote on the Hasbrouck complex name change (which the SUNY New Paltz Diversity and Inclusion Council, the Student Government, the Faculty Senate, and President Christian all advocate for and support). The video below was produced in order to articulate and amplify the overwhelming wishes of the campus community to change the names of the Hasbrouck Complex Buildings in advance of the February 21st, 2019 College Council Vote.
On February 21st, 2019, the College Council voted 4-3 to change the names fo the Hasbrouck Building Complex. On March 20th, 2019, the SUNY Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename the buildings. The new names (Shawangunk Hall, Awosting Hall, Minnewaska Hall, Mohonk Hall, Ashokan Hall and Peregrine Dining Hall) carry local meaning and were approved by the College Council on March 6, 2019. For an interactive map of the buildings and information about the meanings of the new names, click here. You can also go to this site for a running list of the news coverage on this issue.