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Welcome
New Members
The
GRDC is pleased to welcome our newest members, Action
for a Better Community and SUNY Brockport.
Action
for a Better Community
For more than three decades, Action for a Better Community
(ABC) has been a leader in encouraging, supporting, and
developing self-sufficiency among low-income families
in Monroe County. Its efforts have been extended to include
Ontario County as well.
 As
a "community action agency," ABC's programs
touch upon the health, education, safety, employment,
and housing of the region's families, individuals, teens,
and toddlers. Since its beginning, ABC has aided thousands
of individuals and families to move from public assistance
and/or the ranks of the working poor to a gainfully
employed, tax-paying status.
 In
the coming years, it is envisioned that ABC's programs
will play an even more critical role in the community's
response to poverty and welfare reform. Accordingly,
ABC's three divisions, Head Start, Employment &
Training, and Community Services, are focused on fortifying
our historical commitment to customer-directed quality
service.
Lannette
McKnight, Assistant Human Resources Director, will represent
Action for a Better Community on the Greater Rochester
Diversity Council. She can be contacted at: 550 East
Main St., Rochester, NY 14604, lmcknight@abcinfo.org,
phone (585) 325-5116 ext. 4201, fax 585-797-4401.
SUNY
Brockport
The
GRDC is pleased to welcome its newest member, the State
University of New York at Brockport. SUNY Brockport
is a selective, state-supported, four-year comprehensive
college that emphasizes an ideal blending of the liberal
arts with professional studies.  Founded
in 1867 as one of New York State's first four Normal
Schools,
Brockport has
continued its commitment to quality education through
World War II, when G.I.s swelled enrollments, to its
emergence as a State Teacher's College in 1948.
Brockport's
435-acre campus has 66 buildings occupying about one-quarter
of the campus, and gently rolling open and wooded land.
Its diverse medium-sized student body includes 6,962
undergraduate students and 1,780 graduate students,
about 10 percent of whom are members of underrepresented
minority groups. Its extraordinary faculty of 586 includes
21 distinguished faculty, the highest faculty ranking
in SUNY; 72 faculty members who have received the Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching; 13 Fulbright awards;
and 91 percent of our full-time regular faculty hold
the highest degree in their field. Brockport also offers
graduate study programs in 28 disciplines and 17 certification
areas.
 Representing
Brockport on the Greater Rochester Diversity Council
is Adrienne Collier, Assistant Director of Human Resources/Affirmative
Action Officer. She can be contacted at: 421 Allen Administration
Building, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY 14420.
Phone: (585) 395-5119, Fax: (585) 395-5275, E-mail:
acollier@brockport.edu,
Website: www.brockport.edu/aao.
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