The Oswego County Traffic Safety Board and SUNY Oswego’s University Police will team up to host a Community Bike Rodeo family safety event from noon to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the Romney Lot (Parking Lot 7) off Route 104 on campus.

The event is free and open to the public.

Organizers will go over bike safety information, provide helmet-fitting demonstrations and more. Visitors can access a course set up for bikes, scooters or rollerblades.

From July 31 to Aug. 3, Campus Technology Services (CTS) will update the wireless network throughout Penfield Library.  

During this timeframe, old wireless equipment will be replaced with new. The impact on users should be minimal as any devices connected to the equipment being replaced should automatically connect to other equipment not being replaced. 

Should you happen to experience a wireless disconnect during these days while in the library, please wait 5 to 10 minutes to reconnect your device.

A new honor for locally born hero Mary Walker –- the unveiling of a U.S. quarter bearing her likeness –- will take place live on NewsChannel 9 locally, or on other ABC affiliates and online, during Good Morning America’s spinoff “GMA3: What You Need to Know,” which airs at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 20.

Born in Oswego Town, Walker is the namesake of the university’s health center, the only woman to receive the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor and a noted pioneer in social issues, particularly related to women’s rights.

Campus Technology Services will implement a new retention policy for institutional cloud storage with the Panopto video service. The new retention policy will be as follows:

• Archive all content not viewed within the last two years
• Removal of all content not viewed within the last three years

While archived content is still in Panopto, you must request that it be restored, which can take up to 48 hours.

July brings the celebration of Disability Pride Month to recognize the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990. The ADA is a federal law prohibiting discrimination against a person with disability in order to provide equal opportunity. 

A person with a disability can include having physical or mental, temporary or permanent, and visible or invisible impairments. Whether you are an ally or within the community, it's important to recognize our differences and be open to learning from each other. 

The Office of Learning Services (OLS) invites all campus affiliates to get to know its services better by browsing the Faculty and Staff Services page on its newly developed website.

CTS Cyberbits is a monthly column on Cybersecurity that contains information on how to protect yourself online and new emerging threats to be aware of. In this month’s edition Campus Technology Services will cover texting scams.

When we think of cybersecurity threats and prevention, we often mostly consider things such as computer viruses or unwanted emails but any electronic communication method can be used maliciously. Text messaging to phones is one such example of this.

SUNY Oswego will again join many SUNY campuses and hundreds of organizations around the world on Wednesday, June 21, in enthusiastically participating in the annual Daylight Hour campaign. 

To support the campaign, which raises awareness of the value of simple daylight to save energy and improve health, members of the college community are asked to switch off lights in day-lit offices, even if in home offices, for one hour at noon on June 21 (or longer if desired).

Did you know that the United States has two independence days? 

The first Independence Day is observed on July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was approved, thus officially cutting ties with Great Britain. Although the United States was free from Great Britain, not everyone was free because slavery existed. This is shared in Frederick Douglass’ 1852 keynote address, at an Independence Day celebration, titled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” where he shared, “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”