The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College for 2024.
Geneseo is among 209 outstanding institutions chosen for the designation, based on a survey of administrators at 650 institutions. Survey topics covered the schools’ academic offerings, cost, financial aid, career services, graduation rates, and student debt.
Last weekend, SUNY Geneseo welcomed over 900 alums and friends back
On May 16, SUNY Geneseo held its 6th annual Sankofa Graduation Recognition Ceremony.
The event honors those who self-identify as students of color, while acknowledging their resilience and perseverance toward this important milestone.
On Saturday, May 18, SUNY Geneseo held its 158th Commencement, conferring more than 800 degrees before a capacity audience of family, friends, faculty, and staff.
President Denise A. Battles addressed the graduates, and Andrea Holland ’01, an executive coach, leader, and speaker, gave the commencement keynote, encouraging graduates to know themselves.
In a national competition, six SUNY Geneseo students have won 2024–25 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships: Addie Balogun ’27 (Senegal); Abbyy George ’24 (Senegal); Cadence Panol ’26 (Senegal); Yairi Rosario ’24 (Barbados); Stephanie Santiago ’25 (Spain); and Victoria Tripp ‘24 (Senegal). Since 2007, 56 Geneseo students have won Gilman scholarships.
Spanish major Elle Maier '24 from Fairport, NY, has won a 2024–25 Fulbright US Student award to Colombia. Maier is the fourth Geneseo Fulbright recipient this year and becomes the college’s fourth Colombia award winner for a fully funded position teaching in a university or post-secondary institution.
Physics and biophysics double major Matt Willard ’26 has received a 2024 DAAD RISE scholarship to intern this summer at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Willard, from Tonawanda, NY, is the tenth Geneseo student to win a RISE award.
Reece Torres joined the Geneseo sociology department in Fall 2023 as a 2023–25 SUNY PRODiG Fellow. The PRODiG program (Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Growth) aims to increase the representation of historically underrepresented faculty at SUNY campuses. Torres is Geneseo's fourth fellow since the program's inception in 2020.