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NYIT Hits The Road
The NYIT Alumni Federation is in expansion mode, and it could be coming to a town near you.
The federation already has chapters in Manhattan, Long Island, Florida and Nanchang, China. As of press time, the federation was mulling new chapters in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Each of those metropolitan areas is home to several hundred alumni, according to Jeff Morosoff, director of alumni relations at NYIT.
"It's too soon to predict which of those cities will definitely launch alumni chapters," says Morosoff. "The expansion plans are a work in progress, but at this point I'd say Philadelphia is our leading candidate for a new chapter. And we're very serious about northern and southern California."
More than 600 NYIT alumni live in the greater Philadelphia metro area, making it a prime spot for a new chapter. That's why NYIT recently hosted a reception for eager alumni at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, says Morosoff.
NYIT President Edward Guiliano and Morosoff were scheduled for alumni receptions in San Francisco, Calif., and Nassau County, N.Y., this July.
Each time a new alumni chapter forms, it helps NYIT to shed its misleading reputation as a regional college.
"NYIT is known as a leading local education institution in New York," concedes Michael S. Nersesian ('96), president of the Alumni Federation's Long Island Chapter. "But we have to remember that NYIT has strong connections across the U.S. and the world."
Just ask the Alumni Federation's South Florida Chapter, which was formed in March.
Chapter members held their first event May 26, when the NYIT baseball team faced off against the national champion University of Miami Hurricanes. Several chapter members attended the game and fondly recounted their days at NYIT. (Alas, NYIT lost the contest against the Hurricanes.)
"I began studying at the Manhattan campus M.B.A. program but relocated to southern Florida," says Brian Little, president of new alumni chapter and an operations manager at Office Depot Inc. "Fortunately for me, NYIT maintains an offsite campus here and I completed my M.B.A. in 2000."
NYIT has operated a graduate center in Florida since 1989. The center added undergraduate programs in Fort Lauderdale 1995. In addition to the South Florida Chapter, the Alumni Federation also has a Central Florida chapter. More than 2,000 NYIT alumni reside in Florida, according to Morosoff.
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