Since Fall 2018, we have been offering “passion” courses (First-Year Signature Courses) each fall semester to incoming first-year students. The intent of these courses was to build student engagement and academic rigor in the very first semester here at Oswego. Studies show that engaged students are retained at a high level at most institutions (Barefoot, 1993; Tinto, 1997; Kuh, et. al, 2005).

We ran 13 such courses this past fall, which you can find described on this website. 

Members of the campus community can take advantage of more than 80 professional development workshops through the college's annual Winter Breakout running Jan. 10 to 21.

The servers associated with the LakerPrint student printing, myOswego, Banner, and Degreeworks services will have scheduled maintenance on the following dates/times:

On Jan. 17 at 8 a.m., Campus Technology Services (CTS) will remove Zoom recordings from the spring 2021 and summer 2021 semesters to free up file storage.

Full-time employees who are entitled to observe holidays, and are not scheduled to work on Saturday, Dec. 25, or Saturday, Jan. 1, will be credited with regular holiday compensatory time after each holiday.

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work on Saturday will observe Saturday, Dec. 25, and Saturday, Jan, 1, as a holiday unless required to work. Any employee required to work on either day will receive either paid holiday pay or granted holiday compensatory time off (holiday leave), as appropriate.

American flags will fly at half-staff through sunset on Thursday, Dec. 9, in honor of former U.S. senator and majority leader Robert Joseph Dole, following a proclamation by current President Joseph Biden.

Biden praised Dole as "a statesman like few in our history and a war hero" in making the Dec. 5 proclamation. 

Cooper Fitness Center will be open and free for all faculty, staff and students for portions of Winter Break.

Coooper will be open between Dec. 13 and 17, and Jan 10 and 22. Hours will be 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends during that span.

Dear Members of the Campus Community,

I would like to take this opportunity to make you aware of organizational changes made within the Division of Administration & Finance as a result of restructuring in the areas of Finance and Budget.

The Educational Opportunity Program Office invites students to be Peer Leaders for the EOP Summer Program of 2022.

This position is a five-week, live-in position reporting to the EOP director. All Peer Leaders will live on-campus with the EOP Freshman during the summer program, unless it is offered on a virtual platform. If virtual, on campus housing is not provided.