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Farmingdale State College Smart Scholars Program
Farmingdale, NY

School District Partners: Amityville UFSD, Hempstead UFSD,
New York City DOE (Students in Temporary Housing), Wyandanch UFSD

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Farmingdale State College is proud to be a sponsor of the Year Opened: Fall 2011
NYS Smart Scholar program. Our program began in the
fall of 2011. 100% of our courses are taught by 2014-15 Enrollment: 223
Farmingdale faculty and on college campuses. Classes are
taught at three locations - Farmingdale State College, St. Male/Female Ratio: 103:120
Francis College and New York Technical College.
Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity:
Courses Offered African American – 48.1%
Hispanic – 44.5%
Course Credits Sequence Asian – 2.2%
American Indian – 2.1%
FRX 101 Freshman Experience 1 A Other – 1.1%

FRX 103 Career Explorations 2 A Percentage Free/Reduced Price Lunch
(FRPL): 75.2%
BCS 102 Computer Science 3B
Average Number of College Credits
CRJ 100 Criminal Justice 3B Earned by Grade Level:
9th Grade – 3
VIS 105 Intro to Photography 3 B 10th Grade – 5
11th Grade – 6
VIS 118 Intro to Film 1B 12th Grade – 6

VIS 140 Intro to Graphics 3B Average number of college credits
earned by 2014 Graduates: 14
AVN 10 General Aeronautics 3 C
2014 Graduation Rate: 100%
AVN 101 Aviation History 3C
Summer Program Offerings:
BIO 120 Biology 4C College Classes
College Visits
ENG 101 Composition/Rhetoric 3 C
Contact Information:
ENG 102 Composition/Literature 3 C Bentley Whitfield, Project Director
(631) 420-2047
SPE 130 Public Speaking 3C whitfib@farmingdale.edu

A = First year Smart Scholar students, Gertrude Phillips, Project Coordinator
(631) 794-6350
B = Second year Smart Scholar students, phillig@farmindgale.edu
C = Smart scholar students in the 11th or 12th grade
Farmingdale State College
Over the next three years we will be expanding our 2350 Broadhollow Road
curriculum by another 6 to 7 courses; there will be an Farmingdale, NY 11735
emphasis on STEM subjects. Our goal is to have our Smart
Scholar students successfully complete the basic college
English and math courses that require remediation before
they graduate from high school.

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