A Monetary Prize will be awarded to a winning entry in an essay contest.

Dr. Larry Howard, chairman of the SUNY Maritime College Global Business and Transportation Department (GBAT) announced the first annual Mark Chadwin Award for SUNY Maritime College juniors and seniors majoring in international transportation and trade.  Dr. Chadwin was the first Chair of the Global Business and Transportation (GBAT) Department.  The award will be presented to the student with the winning entry in this first annual essay contest.  This year’s topic will be The Relationship Between Culture and Globalization: Opportunities and Threats. “ Students responding to the topic should apply it to the nation of their choosing and its relations with the United States,” advised Dr. Howard.

 “When Mark passed away last spring,” noted Dr. Howard, “his family decided that each year in his honor, we would run an essay contest for students majoring in International Transportation and Trade (ITT).  Much of Dr. Chadwin’s work focused on the importance of the impact of culture on international business activities. We chose to set this year’s topic because of that.   Dr. Chadwin was  passionate about students being able to write clearly and concisely and get their thoughts organized.  The winning essay will be articulate about the topic, elegant in expression, and impeccable in grammar, usage, and reference style, and be complete in no more than five pages.”

The essay must be submitted in Word file format to Professor Jim Drogan (jdrogan@sunymaritime.edu) or Dr. Larry Howard lhoward@sunymaritime.edu.  The deadline is Monday, April 19th and is only open to juniors and seniors in the International Trade and Transportation (ITT) major at SUNY Maritime College. The best essay and award recipient will be publically announced at the Spring 2010 Graduation Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 6th.  Students are urged to contact Dr. Howard (XT 2977) or Professor Drogan (XT 7289) with questions.

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To: Students in GBTT 351 International Logistics
       ITM Graduate Students and “Fast Track” Students
       All Other Students & Faculty

On Tuesday March 23rd I am taking a bus to the job fair held that day at  “Shipping 2010,” the big annual exposition held at the Stamford, CT Hilton by the Connecticut Maritime Association.  The Maritime College job fair ends at 2PM that afternoon, the bus for Stamford will board at 4PM in the parking lot outside the chapel in the Fort.

I can get only so many people on the bus, so here are my priorities:

Students in my GBTT 351 International Logistics class
ITM (graduate) students and “Fast Track” students
ITT (undergraduate) students
Other Students and Faculty

Please send an email to my administrative assistant, Courtney Collins at CCollins@sunymaritime.edu to reserve a place on the bus.

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TMGT 8370 Shipboard Operations for Shoreside Managers, taught by Captain Joe Ahlstrom this summer session I, will take place in part on the Carnival Glory. 

The College is implementing a new policy regarding orientation to the graduate program and the sequence in which graduate courses are taken.  It is already programmed into the registration system and is effective beginning November 15th when graduate students begin to register for spring classes.

Policy Details:

All new graduate students for January 2010 are required to take TMGT 6001, Orientation to Graduate Studies, a one credit course.  International students should sign up for TMGT 6001-02, completely online students should sign up for TMGT 6001-03, and all other students should sign up for TMGT 6001-01.  Vicki Ferritto is the instructor for all three sessions.

Please understand that the initial orientation meeting scheduled on the afternoon of Monday, January 11th is mandatory and part of the TMGT 6001 orientation course.  All new graduate students who are not completely online are expected to attend the meeting; you cannot get an “A” in TMGT 6001 without attending the meeting, and an absence will count against the attendance policy of the course.  Online students will have the initial meeting material addressed in their class format.  The course instructor will verify that students registered in section 03 are in fact, completely online students.

TMGT 6001 is a co-requisite in the registration system for all graduate core courses.  A new student cannot register for graduate core courses (TMGT 7000-level courses) unless first signed up for TMGT 6001 Orientation to Graduate Studies.

All graduate core courses (TMGT 7000-level courses) are pre-requisites for electives (TMGT 8000-level).  New students cannot enroll in a graduate  elective class until completing all 6 core courses.  In the second semester we will make exceptions on a case-by-case basis for concurrent enrollments as long as most core course requirements have been satisfied.

If you have any questions, please contact the undersigned.

All graduate students should be aware of which faculty member is assigned to them as an academic advisor.  Advisors  are: Lawrence Howard, James Drogan, Francis (Stash) Pelkowski, and for graduate license students, Water Nadolny.