Marist College News

Shirley Ann Jackson , president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, ranks ninth in the country for highest compensation packages among private college presidents.

U.S. Army Lt. Colonel J. Guillermo Rosa faced challenging circumstances before, including a leadership position in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago , drew compensation of $3.36 million in 2011, topping a list of 42 private college leaders that made more than $1 million.

Forty-two presidents of private colleges were paid more than $1 million in 2011, up from 36 for the previous two years, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual analysis of their latest available tax forms.

The president of the University of Chicago earned $3.4 million in 2011, making him the highest-paid private university president in the country that year, according to a survey released Sunday.

As the dream of college remains unaffordable for many students and leaves others in mountains of debt, a growing number of private-college presidents are taking home more than $1 million a year.

Michael Hunter knew nothing about Marist College and had never even heard of the Poughkeepsie, N.Y., school.

This year, Marist College students and faculty have donated 902 gifts to low-income families in Dutchess County.

At this early stage for the 2016 presidential campaign, it's Hillary's world, and everyone else just lives in it.

A locally produced film with a screening tonight in the City of Poughkeepsie takes a look at how everything about rowing on the Hudson has changed over the years except the river itself.

Year 12 students from Marist College collect the prize. Far left is managing teacher Nathan Ahearne, right is principal Richard Sidorko and, back row, third from right, sponsor Mark Sullivan.

Hillary Clinton dominates the potential field of candidates for the Democratic nomination by huge margins, with a more than 5-to-1 advantage over her nearest rival and more than doubling the support of everyone else combined, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.

An old winter hat, made of trusty and timeless wool. To me, as much as anything else, that old winter hat tells the story of the Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club Turkey Trot road race, held a week ago from Arlington High School in Freedom Plains.

FDR is digital. A public database of 350,000 pages of archival documents and 2,000 historical photographs relating to the 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, can be accessed from any computer in a virtual research room dubbed "FRANKLIN," which went live at 10 a.m. Wednesday, a spokesman for the library said.

Not even Mighty Big Blue can stop a hurricane. But. IBM and Marist College are testing a new cloud computing innovation that could help prevent disruptions in voice and data communications services caused by hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Town of Poughkeepsie resident Michael Pickett said he sometimes wonders how his drinking water is monitored.

In this Jan. 23, 2012 file photo, Gillie Waddington of Enfield, N.Y., raises a fist during rally against hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. President Barack Obama the f- word during his recent State of the Union speech nor did he mention the technology used to get it, known commonly as ... (more)

Elizabeth O'Brien , a former Newtown resident, met Scarlett Lewis, the mother of Jesse Lewis - a 12/14 victim - when Ms Lewis visited Kahalu'u Elementary School recently to discuss her new book, Nurturing Healing Love : A Mother's Journey of Hope & Forgiveness.

ACT Policing were required to respond to numerous incidents of disorderly behaviour and traffic hazards by graduating students from Marist College in Civic early this morning .

Joey Cavaccini can list the names of those buried in Middlebush Cemetery, provide details of local history during the Revolutionary War and list a timeline of events in the hamlet of Swartwoutville, which most people never knew existed.