The Laker community is asked to save the date to participate in this year’s 1861 Giving Challenge to help transform the lives of SUNY Oswego students and celebrate the historic inauguration of SUNY Oswego’s 11th President, Peter O. Nwosu.

In recognition of this exciting new chapter in the university’s history, Paul Vianco ’80 has laid out a challenge to donate $70,000 to Oswego if 861 people make a gift in 1,861 minutes. The challenge clock begins at 8 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, and runs until 3:01 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27.

The university invites all undergraduate and graduate students to be the stars of SUNY Oswego upcoming marketing material. On Thursday, Sept. 26, and Friday, Sept. 27, a photographer will capture captivating moments across the picturesque campus for promotional photos — and organizers would love to see Oswego students take center stage.

Here’s what you need to know:

Dates/Times:

• Thursday, Sept. 26, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Friday, Sept. 27, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Where:

The Writing Center is excited to announce new opportunities for students to practice giving and receiving feedback as well as revising their writing.

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures invites the campus to attend the 2024 SUNY Oswego-Pragda Latin American Film Festival, starting on Monday, Sept. 23.

In conjunction with the kick-off of the 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month, the festival will showcase five compelling films that explore themes of diversity, inclusion, gender issues and the vibrant world of Latin American music.

The first class of 25 Shineman Oswego Scholars started this fall at SUNY Oswego, with these local students receiving support from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation.

For fall 2024, the Shineman Oswego Scholars program awarded 25 scholarships to local students for $2,500 per year for up to four years. Starting in fall 2025, the program will provide 10 $1,250 renewable scholarships across the county.

Applications are open for students to serve on two important SUNY Oswego advisory boards -- with a deadline of next Monday (Sept. 23) to apply. 

Division of Student Affairs Student Advisory Board – deadline to apply: 9 a.m., Sept. 23 

On Aug. 21, the Automatic Zero for Missing Submissions setting was enabled. The feature allows faculty to enable it within your course. This feature automatically assigns a zero to students who have not submitted their work for a particular assignment by the designated deadline.

How does it work?

Within the next week, undergraduate students will receive a survey from SUNY Oswego’s Writing Across the Curriculum Steering Committee about the student perspective on artificial intelligence as a writing tool.

Organizers hope this survey will give the campus community a better understanding of how students perceive artificial intelligence tools, as well as both whether and how they use them when they write. Each student’s feedback is valuable and will help inform future institutional policy and pedagogical tools.

As a final reminder, the retention policy for cloud storage with Panopto and Zoom will be completed this Thursday, Sept. 19. The policy is run annually on this day. The retention policy will do the following:

On Saturday, Sept. 21, at 2:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the Oswego Public Library, athropology professor Alanna Ossa will give a lecture about the results of the SUNY Oswego Archaeology Field School at the Van Buren Inn and Tavern in Volney during summer of 2024.