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North Country Public Radio’s Common Wealth, Common Wisdom project is finishing up after an impressive run.

Follow the link above to the project’s great site, which richly documents the work that independent producers Gregory Warner and Laura Starecheski did with a great pool of local talent. Area teens teamed up with elders who lived through the Great Depression to produce a variety of stories about entrepreneurship in difficult times.

NCAT is proud to have played host for this project. A special thanks to NCAT Assistant Director Josephine Skiff and NCPR’s Michael Sauter for all they did to make the project run smoothly.

We’re very pleased to welcome Ms. Josephine Skiff, M.S., who joins the NCAT staff today as Assistant Director. Jo comes to us with over fifteen years of experience as an instructional technologist in K-12, and is ready to put the resources of the NCAT to work in St. Lawrence classes.

Please join us in welcoming her!

North Country Public Radio and independent producers Laura Starecheski and Gregory Warner have received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to undertake an intergenerational media project here in the North Country.

The project is titled “Common Wealth, Common Wisdom.” Local teens will team up with local survivors of the Great Depression to produce multimedia pieces and radio stories about ingenuity in times of hardship.

The Newell Center for Arts Technology is very pleased to play host to this project, which will take place July-August 2009 here on the St. Lawrence campus. Click here for more.

The Info for Visitors page has been updated with new information, including an FAQ that prospectives and their families may find especially useful. (Feedback welcome on this.)

Visitors are always welcome in the NCAT; please let us know you’re coming so that we can be ready to meet with you, show you around, and answer your questions.

If you are a prospective student and are planning a visit to campus, please let the Admissions staff know that you’re interested in the NCAT – they will help us get a visit to the NCAT into your itinerary that includes a chance to talk with a member of our staff. We look forward to meeting with you!

We welcome all alumni home for Reunion 2009, May 28-31. NCAT director Chris Watts will be giving guided tours of the Noble Arts Center (formerly the student center) on Saturday, May 30, beginning at 3:30, 4:10, and 4:50 in the Noble lobby. You are invited to come by and see what we’ve done with the Noble Center so far and hear about our future plans. A tour of the NCAT is included, of course!