The campus community can visit the HR Announcements webpage to check out a variety of important information posted recently regarding vacation accruals, benefits, workshops, a new online learning platform and more.

A pair of student-directed one-act plays, "Foreplay or: The Art of the Fugue" and "Screaming, Humming," will run through this weekend with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1; 2 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2; and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec 3 in Tyler Hall's lab theatre.

First-year students from the CRW 198 "The Spoken Word" class will present a spoken-word poetry reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30,  in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132).

At the event, titled "I Just Wanna Talk," students will perform their original spoken word poems as part of this First-Year Signature Course.

Please email Stephanie Pritchard (stephanie.pritchard@oswego.edu) if you have questions or need accommodations to attend.

Letters from Home is back for the holidays, as on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 29 and 30, Student Orientation and Family Engagement will table in the Marano Campus Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

This event allows Lakers to fill out a postcard of their choosing to their supporters back home ("supporters" can be any caring individual in their life -- meaning friends, family and more). To show any supporters some extra love, Lakers can add a Polaroid taken by staff to their envelope to send out.

Dozens of local creators will show off creative gift ideas during the SUNY Oswego Holiday Craft and Vendor Fair, running 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9.

A variety of vendors will fill Marano Campus Center’s Swetman Gym with offerings that feature many handmade and homemade items from around Central New York.

Each participating vendor donates an item toward door-prize drawings happening every half hour; no purchase is needed to enter, but one must be present to win.

SUNY Oswego's 36th annual Toy Drive is underway, with information, boxes and contacts in buildings across campus through Dec. 14 to help make spirits bright for local children in need.

The SEFA (State Employees Federated Appeal) planning committee coordinates this annual drive.

Penfield Library is here to connect the SUNY Oswego community with free scholarly sources at any stage of the research process. Whether that’s just getting started with research, feeling stuck in the middle or looking for that finishing touch to support an argument, Penfield librarians can help.

Penfield Library offers multiple options to connect with librarians:

SUNY Oswego will host two opportunities for van driver training on successive Saturdays -- 8 a.m. to noon on Dec. 2 and 9. 

University policy requires that in order to operate the college-owned 12-passenger vans, students must be 18 years of age, possess a valid U.S. driver’s license and complete at least one driver training session.

SUNY Oswego has joined an annual local effort, titled “Tithe My Shoes,” to collect new or gently used shoes and boots for the Rescue Mission with an emphasis on children’s shoes.

SUNY Oswego President Peter O. Nwosu, Ph.D., is proud to participate in the collection effort this year. In his office are a pair of shoes he wore when he first came to America as an immigrant student, and he speaks of them often.