The Oswego Alumni Association cordially invites the campus community to the December Commencement Eve Reception at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 10, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom. The event helps welcome December graduates to the Oswego Alumni Association and celebrates all their accomplishments.

Tickets are $27 for adults, $17 for December Graduates, $12 for children (3-11), while the youngest children (2 and under) are free. Prices include tax and gratuity.

The campus community is invited to nominate students to become first-year Success Coaches in fall 2022 via this online nomination form.

Coaches will help incoming students as they are transitioning from high school to college. They will be responsible for meeting with students in a variety of settings to help them navigate the campus, make healthy choices and build lasting relationships.

The Minimum Wage for student assistant employees will increase from $12.50 to $13.20 per hour, effective Dec. 23, 2021.

All student assistant employees currently paid below $13.20 will receive an automatic wage increase to the new minimum and no action is necessary. For any other hourly rate changes for Student Assistant Employees, a Student Assistant Appointment form will need to be completed and submitted to the Payroll Office. 

Students in CRW 198 ("The Spoken Word: I Have Something to Tell You") will perform their original spoken-word poetry on Wednesday, Dec. 1.

State Singers, the college's auditioned choir, will hold auditions on Wednesday, Dec. 1, and Friday, Dec. 3, for spring semester participants.

Interested student singers should email Caryn Patterson of the music faculty at caryn.patterson@oswego.edu for audition requirements and details.

Style is in the forecast when the Fashion at Oswego student organization presents its “Winter Wonderland Fashion Show” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19,  in the Sheldon Hall ballroom.

“It’s all about spreading our passion for fashion,” the organization’s fashion events correspondent Rickey Strachan explained.

The Fashion at Oswego organization got its start as a small newsletter intended to highlight the fashion at Oswego, but has evolved to additionally enhance fashion on campus, Strachan said. 

SUNY Oswego’s SEFA (State Employees Federated Appeal) and the United Way of Greater Oswego County once again looks to make spirits bright through a holiday toy drive on campus.

SUNY Oswego sophomores are invited to sign up to get the scoop on how to rock their finals during a special event from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1, in 133 Marano Campus Center.

Activities at "Rock Your Finals" will include free ice cream, study tips, mingling with tutors, getting information on spring events, rock painting and sending words of affirmation (via cards) to their friends (organizers will facilitate the mailing for off campus students).

SUNY Oswego's department of human development welcomed five new initiates into the Nu Alpha Nu Chapter of Kappa Omicron Nu, the national honor society for human sciences.

The mission of Kappa Omicron Nu is to promote empowered leaders through excellence in scholarship, leadership and research in the human sciences.

The virtual initiation ceremony was held on Nov. 10, and welcomed these SUNY Oswego students into the chapter:

Before students head off campus for Thanksgiving break, the members of Her Campus will host a Friendsgiving Banquet on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.

Her Campus will host a potluck with all different types of Thanksgiving foods. Attendees can sign up to make their own dish or bring something like a canned side or refreshment.