SUNY Geneseo has again made several of U.S. News & World Report’s regional ranking lists. The College ranked third in the “Top Public Schools” in the North, retaining the same high rank earned in 2020.
SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras and several team members visited the SUNY Geneseo campus on the evening of September 6, as part of his tour of several SUNY campuses in Western New York. Malatras and his team met with President Denise A. Battles and members of the President’s Cabinet. Battles had an opportunity to highlight Geneseo’s COVID-19 Restart Plan to the chancellor, which he complimented as having “swift and aggressive testing and enforcement efforts to contain the virus.”
You can almost taste the flavors when Matt Abdoo ’02 talks about his grandmother’s cooking.
“Whether it was a pot of gravy with meatballs and braciole and sausage, or a pork shoulder that’s painstakingly cooked for 12 hours, or Sunday sauce, made low and slow—the ultimate goal was to cook a beautiful dinner and bring everybody together to eat it,” Abdoo says.
Dear first-year and transfer students,
As this semester begins, there are a few tips that, as a senior, I’d like to share with you. Here are some things that I wish I knew coming into my first year at Geneseo.
New and returning students and faculty are settling in for the start of the 2020–21 academic year as classes begin.
The College officially welcomed new students to campus during a virtual New Student Convocation on August 27, which included a keynote address by Melanie Medeiros, associate professor of anthropology, on cultivating a meaningful and impactful Geneseo experience. Her final request to students was informed by the words and career of Congressman John Lewis, who died earlier this year.
After a national search, SUNY Geneseo has named Marcus Foster, JD, to serve as the college’s Title IX coordinator. Foster began in his new position on August 20.
As Title IX coordinator, Foster has a vital role in preventing and responding to incidents of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment and sexual assault at Geneseo.
SUNY Geneseo has again been selected as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review. The education services company features the College in its 2021 edition of The Best 386 Colleges. Only 14 percent of America's 2,800 four-year colleges are featured in the popular ranking book.
Elizabeth “Bizzy” Coy ’06 has won a 2020–21 U.S. Student Fulbright open study/research award for Ireland to earn a master of arts in creative writing at Dublin City University. The one-year, postgraduate degree program, established in 2018, will allow her to study under the acclaimed Irish playwright Marina Carr. Coy’s competitive grant brings this year’s total of Geneseo Fulbright awards to eight, an institutional record.
On Monday, July 20, the SUNY Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) announced that, in response to ongoing health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, its member institutions will suspend fall sports competition. It also announced that winter conference and non-conference schedules will be delayed until January 2021.
The changes to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 6 are unjust and irresponsible. The ICE regulations require international students to return home, if their entire academic schedule is online.