SUNY Geneseo welcomes CNN political commentator and New York Times best-selling author Keith Boykin, who will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Diversity Summit. This year’s theme is “Our journey from inclusion to belonging.” The day-long summit, part of the college's 150th anniversary celebration, takes place on Wednesday, February 16.
SUNY Geneseo's library is home to specialized faculty—subject librarians—who offer students a wide array of educational support. Understanding what they do and how to access their services can make a project or research paper less daunting and stressful.
SUNY Geneseo has received an award of $210,132 from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation program for the chemistry department to purchase a three-dimensional Raman imaging system.
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation (RDLGF) has awarded SUNY distinguished professor of history Michael Leroy Oberg, the SUNY Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History, and a consortium of six other colleges and universities a three-year grant of more than $300K for The Gardiner Foundation Semiquincentennial Student Fellowship Program. SUNY Geneseo and several of the institutions in the fellowship program have committed $150K of matching funds for the project, bringing the total to over $450K.
An institutional record number of six SUNY Geneseo students have so far won Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships in the 2021–22 national competition: Isabelle Covert ’23 (Iceland), Gaetan Jean Louis ’25 (Senegal), Jarrett Marrapese ’23 (Japan), Trystan Melas ’23 (Austria), Sara Ortiz ’24 (South Korea), and Riddhi Patel ’24 (South Korea). Since 2007, 37 Geneseo students have won Gilman scholarships.
SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business is now offering a finance major as well as new minors in entrepreneurship and human resource management. The degrees, open to current business students, will be available to incoming first-year students beginning Fall 2022.
SUNY Geneseo and the Village of Geneseo recently renewed the Geneseo Village-College Relations Compact. At the Community Chat on November 10, Geneseo Mayor Margaret Duff and SUNY Geneseo President Denise Battles jointly signed the amended compact, which represents a mutual commitment to the common good and the strong bond that exists between college and community.
The SUNY Geneseo College Library’s newly digitized James W. Kimball Traditional Music and Dance in New York State Collection is now accessible to researchers and the public. The collection of ethnomusicologist James Kimball documents traditional musicians of New York who specialized in the Eastern square dance tradition.
SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2022 Edition.
One of Geneseo’s most popular majors is no major at all. “Undeclared” is consistently one of the top choices for incoming students. In fact, surveys show that as many as 50 percent of students nationwide enter college without a major, and an estimated 75 percent change their major at least once before graduation.