Albany Nanotech Complex

"The best turducken in Albany"

"They're working hard to ensure that Moore's Law stays valid."

"DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL. Where do I start? I start school here in January of 2018. This school has done anything, but made my life a living hell. When I first got here I received a email from Florence Jones stating "You now have a hold on your account and we cannot remove it until you provide us with a physical." The same day, I gave Florence permission to seek my most recent physical record from my doctor. Florence then forged my signature to request more for records that I had no knowledge about and most importantly did not approve of. The director, Josephine Ruffrage, and I set up a meeting to talk about this serious situation. Most of the conversion was Josephine stressing about how good of a person Florence is. A person who has been working for the school for 10+ years and recently just retiring. Including how she Florence won a Chancellor’s Award and even was requested by one student in a survey that ONLY 35 student took to be hired back after retirement. She was hired back to help out because the previous person was offered another opportunity, etc. After reviewing the survey, there was a lot of factors that I noticed that would make that survey inaccurate and feel as that this was a gesture to persuade how I feel about this entire incident. Just knowing that this school has less than 2000 students, the average success rate for surveys are about 30 to 40 percent (600 to 800 students). Again, it felt like Josephine was making all these excuses for why Florence would make this decisions. During our first meeting she stressed the statement “This office does not requests extra record. We are only here to help the students.” The way I look at it is that is that Florence was wrong for forging documents that I did NOT give her nor anyone else in this school permission to do. For example; if you gave me a check for $10 and I intentionally add three extra zeros, making the total $10,000. Am I right or wrong? If this was the situation between Florence and I with Josephine being the Judge. Florence just got off free and I'm in lost of $9,990. This is illegal and no matter how you justify it, it's wrong. For someone to be working for this school, the state, and a role model for this many year, they should know the right way to handle situations and not get so comfortable that you feel you could work the system with no consequences. This sets a "great" example for student when they are caught plagiarizing and why they should not be expelled from school for doing it once. Next, during the semester I noticed my loans were accumulated interest and I had a payment due. The school has never sent out the form stating that was I was a student. My loan provider sent me a form that was submitted from SUNY Poly stating that I was NOT a student. I immediately went to the student account office to talk to someone and they told me that the process takes about a month and a half. Instead of helping me by telling me I could fill out a deferment form, they insisted that I should just wait and continue to watch my accounts increase, which could badly affect me. I expect everyone in this office to be knowledgeable and if they don't know the answer they could direct me to the right person or place. Also, be the people that students can turn to for help, but you can't because they would rather tell you anything to get you out of their face. However, I was able to get resolve by doing some research then calling my loan provider again to asking about the deferment form. Since there is a character limit I am not able to list everything. But this school will only cause you stress. The professors and administrators suck. You can call and email as much as you want, you may get a response back but not likely. You can't ask them questions without them getting frustrated or not giving you a clear answer. SUNY Poly as a whole are low of staff everywhere on the Utica campus. So walking into a office and they is no one there to help you is completely normal. The library is not 24 hours, plus they may or may not have the resources you need to suceed."

"It's a very impressive facility. In addition to It being a world class reasearch and development semi conductor facility it now houses a hi-tech high school specializing in STEM ( Science Technology Engineering Math) education. It also houses private high tech tenants such as Commerce Hub being one of the major tenants."

"Space ship like campus that puts the "tech" in Tech Valley. Check out when they have open houses so you can find out what nanotech is all about. In the Capital District this is a big deal, as Washington Avenue was moved to provide more room for this institution."