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:

Compass Federal Credit Union’s campus branch, located inside Marano Campus Center in Room 150B, will reopen on Wednesday, Aug. 18.

After closing in March of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Compass is pleased to reopen its campus office every Wednesday and Friday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The campus office will return with its full listing of previous services, including an all-new ATM on site.

For more information on the reopening of this location, call (315) 342-5300.

Effective Monday, Aug. 16, hours for office employees will return to regular hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a one-hour lunch break.

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at hr@oswego.edu.

Visit the HR website for the most up-to-date information from your Human Resources and Payroll offices.

The college's State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) campaign announced sponsorship of the annual Stuff-A-Bus campaign, which provides school supplies to children in need in Oswego County's nine school districts. Collection boxes around campus (see below) will receive drop offs. The collection has begun and will run from through Friday, Aug. 20. 

Members of the campus community are invited to help provide Oswego County schoolchildren with the supplies they will need, including: