General Information
If you are a resident student, chances are one of the first people you will meet on move-in day will be your RA (Resident Assistant). Your RA is an upperclass student who lives in your hall and is there to answer questions and offer support, guidance and friendship. Your RA is trained in crisis intervention, conflict mediation, basic counseling skills and hall policies and is supervised by an RD (Resident Director), a professional college administrator who also lives in the residence hall.
If you need directions to your first class, need someone to eat dinner with, have an idea for a hall program, or are simply feeling a little homesick, your RA is there for you.
| Residence Life Staff | ||
| Director of Residence Life | Kim D. Akins | akinsk@sage.edu |
| Resident Director | Vincent Porfirio | porfiv@sage.edu |
| Residence Life Office 518/292-7711-Albany |
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Raised – the standard bed configuration. Can be raised up to 2’ off the floor for storage of plastic bins underneath.
Bunked – one bed placed directly on top of another bed. Can be raised, but will depend on the height of the student in the bottom bed, to allow for head room when seated.
Lofted – one bed raised into the air with support poles. Can be raised between 5’ and 6’ of the ground, allows a student desk with bookcase and dresser to fit underneath resulting in more space in the room.
Resident students have mailboxes that are assigned to them and located in the residence hall. The mailboxes may only be opened with a key, which students receive upon checking in to the residence hall. The following is the correct format for addressing mail and packages:
Student's Name
Sage College of Albany
Box #
140 New Scotland Ave.
Albany , NY 12208
Campus Cruiser offers an email component that is a web-based graphical interface. This allows our system to be accessed from anywhere at anytime! The information sharing, calendars, news and announcements offer exciting tools for enhancing student life.
All Sage residence halls are wired for access to SageNet, the college's campus-wide computer network. Resident Students can access email and the web from their residence hall room.
www.sage.edu/resources/technologyatsage/
Each residence hall room has two technology ports to provide touch-tone telephone, cable television and Internet access. It will be necessary for you, or your roommate, to bring your own touch-tone telephone with you. There are no charges for installation, local calls, "800" calls, call-waiting or monthly charges for local service. Tech Valley Communications is the long distance carrier that Sage is contracted with. However, other major calling cards are also compatible, though slightly more complicated to use.
Each residence hall room is equipped with two cable TV jacks. Basic cable service is provided to each student and expanded service can be arranged through Time Warner Cable at a cost to the individual student.
The Albany Campus Bookstore is located in the basement of the Kahl Campus Center . Students may purchase books, notebooks, pens, markers and other school supplies. In addition, the bookstore offers snacks and College clothing.
The bookstore is open:
Monday - Thursday 8:30am-6pm
Friday 8:30am-5pm
Contact the bookstore at 292-1720 for special hours during vacations and the first two weekends of the semester.
Students can reserve and shop for their textbooks on-line at www.efollett.com .
The goal of the Wellness Center is to assist students in reaching their optimal level of health and wellness through direct treatment and prevention. Students have the opportunity to take charge of their own health and develop a prevention self-care plan that will establish the foundation for a lifetime of informed and empowered self-care.
