Nominations have been received for the open seats on the SUNY Chancellor's Awards and Distinguished Faculty Selection Committee. You can vote on the nominees for these seats via Google Forms. Although the numbers of nominees within each category is low, a vote for these positions still must be held. Please submit your votes by 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 16, 2020.

Each year the State University of New York recognizes outstanding faculty service, teaching, librarianship, scholarship and creative activity through the conferral of Chancellor's Awards for Excellence and the promotions to the Distinguished Faculty ranks.

SUNY Oswego is authorized to submit up to four nominations for each of the following Chancellor's Awards:

Today (Oct. 1), the non-partisan civic engagement initiative Vote Oswego will sponsor a series of events for Vote Oswego Day.

Events will include a variety of efforts supporting students as they register to vote and request absentee ballots, trivia games related to the voting process and educational sessions about what to expect when it comes time to fill out an absentee ballot or go to the polls. 

A new campus-based podcast mini-series recent launched called "Self-Care Sunday."

This podcast was co-created by mental health counseling graduate student Shannon France and Kyle Dzintars, a counselor from the Counseling Services Center.

Al Roker ’76, national weather anchor and co-host of the 3rd hour on NBC's TODAY, connected with the campus community from 1:30 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, for an informal conversation with students and campus members, moderated by President Deborah F. Stanley.

The Office of Human Resources will offer training sessions for each electronic form in Hirezon/Interview Exchange through the end of the semester to help assist with the transition of these paper form processes to electronic. Below are the training sessions available:

October training sessions:

 The Employee Assistance Program Committee will collaborate with the Discover Wellness worksite wellness program to offer SUNY Oswego employees a "Writing Away Stress" session from 1 to 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

The program, presented over Zoom, is open to all employees via online registration.   

The college's Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) student organization will host "How to Stand Out to an Employer" at 7 pm tonight (Sept. 29).

Prior to the beginning of the semester, the campus migrated Blackboard to a new authentication method requiring the use of your full email address.

At that time, the previous authentication used within Blackboard was removed. On Sept. 23, the service behind the previous authentication was disabled. Unfortunately, this affected some users who were still using an alternative method of authenticating.