The college's Fitness Center has a free week for the opening of classes, a promotion running through Sunday.

Members of the campus community are invited try out the fitness centers in Cooper and Glimmerglass for free during this time. All participants must be fully vaccinated or have an approved medical or religious exemption. In addition, all participants must wear a mask while inside the facility.

Hours for these free days are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 28 and 29.

Campus Technology Services (CTS) offers the following updates for the start of the fall 2021 semester:

New service offerings 

SpectrumU TV IS NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL RESIDENTIAL STUDENTS FOR NO CHARGE

For today’s digitally native students, streaming TV is more than just entertainment -- it’s a must-have. SpectrumU TV enables colleges and universities to meet this expectation and provide more on-campus value by enabling students to watch TV anytime and anywhere.

Writing Center staff will be available to visit classrooms and share information about writing tutoring services.

If you would like to schedule a classroom visit, contact Steven Smith at steven.smith@oswego.edu. Visits are approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

Smith will need to know the course, section number, where and when the course meets and how many students are in it.

Dear Faculty,

I am pleased to announce an opportunity available to support your scholarship. The Research and Individualized Student Experiences (RISE) office in partnership with the Financial Aid Office supports 12 Undergraduate Research Assistantships (URA) through the federally funded Work-Study program. This program allows faculty from across the university to request an eligible student as a research assistant to advance their research/scholarship.

With a first week of fall 2021 classes in the books, students are invited to come and play for the annual LakerFest, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, on Onondaga Field.

The west campus location will feature a variety of food, games, activities and more for the event, which is free and open to the campus community and sponsored by the Office of Residence Life and Housing.

Expected activities include:

Did you know that most ink and toner cartridges can be recycled and reused? If you have an expired cartridge, you can send them by campus mail or drop them off to the Environmental Health and Safety Office, 110 Lee Hall, or call 315-312-3157 to arrange pickup.

EHS recommends not waiting for a large stack to develop for everybody's convenience. If sending, not a lot of taping is recommended since EHS has to unpack them to send them out for recycling.

Auditions for “Elsewhere” -- the first in-person full theatre production expected to take place in Waterman Theatre in nearly two years -- will run from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 27, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28. 

Online signups are available to schedule an audition slot. Callbacks will take place starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

The SUNY Oswego Blackboard instance will receive an upgrade on Thursday, Aug. 19 from 12:01 a.m. to 7 a.m.  During this time, Blackboard will be unavailable.

The upgrade is necessary to move to the newest Blackboard version, which includes a new content editor, updated inline assignment grading, and changes that allow for better integration with third-party publisher tools. 

The Governor’s Office of Employee Relations (GOER) Work Life Services (WLS) will again offer virtual fall/winter 2021 New York State pre-retirement sessions from September to December 2021. Using the WebEx platform, these live sessions are conducted bi-weekly over two days using the agenda below on these available dates.

September: 

• Webinar Session I: Sept. 14 and15  
• Webinar Session II: Sept. 28 and 29  

October: