The City of Oswego recently announced that SUNY Oswego President Peter O. Nwosu will serve as the Grand Marshal for this year’s Independence Day Parade, taking place on Sunday, July 6, 2025, at 1 p.m.
The renaming improves the university’s ability to attract grants, research funding, and partnerships with employers and community organizations — as well as fundraising opportunities to “promote initiatives that resonate with successful and engaged alumni.” It also “signals SUNY Oswego’s readiness to lead” in addressing regional and global challenges through innovative programming, it contends.
SUNY Oswego President Peter O. Nwosu joined fellow higher education leaders from across the nation in Washington, D.C. earlier this week to meet with members of the 119th Congress for the AASCU on the Hill Annual Convening.
In December 2024, Kenyan Ambassador to the United Nations, Erastus Ekitela Lokaale, visited SUNY Oswego to explore opportunities for developing educational and research connections between the university and Kenya.
SUNY Oswego President Dr. Peter O. Nwosu has been named to the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council (CNYREDC) by New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has named SUNY Oswego President Peter Nwosu to chair its committee on student success.
SUNY Oswego President Peter O. Nwosu applauded Gov. Kathy Hochul for pledging in her 2025 State of the State agenda to deliver ongoing state funding to sustain and expand the proven Advancing Success in Associate Pathways (ASAP) and Advancing Completion through Engagement (ACE) programs, transformative models that have been widely demonstrated to increase student completion rates and narrow opportunity gaps, including at SUNY Oswego.
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 General election in Nigeria, Peter Obi, has congratulated Dr. Peter O. Nwosu on becoming the 11th and first Black President of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego, United States.
The campus, community and guests from around the world came together to celebrate the inauguration of Peter O. Nwosu as SUNY Oswego’s 11th president on Friday, Sept. 27, culminating a week of activities focusing on the institution and its future.
