Construction Fund Allocates $1,222,000 For Planetarium/ Accelorator Building 1968 February 28 Construction fund allocates $1,222,000 for Planetarium/ Accelorator Building.
Robert Kennedy Campaign 1968 March Senator Robert Kennedy opens campaign office on campus attracting 200 students.
Mlk Assassination 1968 April 8 Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated. Eight hundred students attend memorial service for Dr. King. Graduate School of Public Affairs (GSPA) students raise scholarship fund for underprivileged inner-city residents wishing to attend the University. SUNYA students conduct survey to study Albany...
Campus Strike And Teach In 1968 April 26 Campus strike and “teach-in” planned as part of a nation-wide strike sponsored by the National Student Mobilization Committee (SMC). The strike is supported by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Suppression, and the Student-Faculty Committee to End the War. The strike will feature teach-ins...
Anti War March 1968 April 27 Six hundred people including SUNYA student participate in Albany march against the Vietnam War and racial injustice.
College Opportunity Program 1968 May Announcement that the University will participate in a summer College Opportunity Program (C.O.P.) to bring in 30 high school graduates between the ages of 17 and 20 from urban and poor rural settings.
University to Participate in Opportunity Program 1968 May 3 The College Opportunity Program (C.O.P.) begins with its first cohort of 30 high school graduates from around the state. Students who face financial hardship and had failed to meet to current admission requirements are offered a chance to enroll in the university with additional mentoring and...
Programs Take Aim at Inequality 1968 May 3 Launched alongside the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Scholarship Fund, the College Opportunity Program is part of a concerted effort undertaken by the university to provide access to higher education for disadvantaged students.
University Hosts "Bridges to a Better Tomorrow" 1968 May 10 A group of students aged 10 to 17 from the Coleman Community Center in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of New York City are hosted on campus for a weekend, residing in Fulton Hall on State Quad alongside 35 volunteer SUNY Albany students. The program, a cooperative effort sponsored by Assemblyman...