Conversation among people of different social identity groups has never been more important. That’s why robbie routenberg ’05 (who uses lower case), Geneseo’s Chief Diversity Officer, is bringing Inter-group Dialogue (IGD) to the campus.
SUNY Geneseo has named Bruno Renero-Hannan as its first SUNY PRODiG Fellow (Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Growth). Renero-Hannan’s two-year appointment as a visiting scholar in the anthropology department will be supported by a grant from the PRODiG (pronounced prodigy) initiative to recruit and retain faculty from historically underrepresented communities.
SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles has joined more than 160 college presidents and chancellors in committing to full student voter registration and participation in all elections through the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. By signing the pledge, the College committed to ensuring all eligible students are able to register to vote and cast informed ballots in the 2020 general election and beyond.
The State University of New York recently announced honorees of the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowships. The fellowships are awarded to students who graduated this academic year with a SUNY bachelor’s degree and who are continuing their education at one of SUNY’s 64 campuses for a graduate degree.
Two things make SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Student Life special, according to Senior Director Chip Matthews.
The first is the way it makes people feel.
“People will come back 15 years later and say, ‘Remember when we did this?’” says Matthews.
Those warm feelings are prompted by a variety of experiences. Through student life, students can attend welcoming events such as picnics, hall meetings, obstacle course challenges, and book discussions.
A three-year study by SUNY Geneseo anthropologists shows that driver licensing restrictions between 2001 and 2020 led to increased social isolation and health risks for immigrant and migrant agricultural workers and their families in Western and Central New York. The researchers identified factors that prevent immigrants from leaving the farms where they work and the detrimental effects that that follow isolation. They also argue that state-and regional-level policies can mitigate the outcomes for local farmworkers.
A pair of Seans have won US Student Fulbright awards to serve as English Teaching Assistants (ETA) for 2020–21. Sean McAneny ’20 and Sean Welch ’19, who graduated in December, both earned bachelor’s degrees in English and were four-year members of Geneseo’s NCAA cross country and track and field teams. They will be placed in the Czech Republic and Taiwan respectively to live and teach English for a year.
A full 47 years after leaving SUNY Geneseo one course short of his degree, Andre “Bud” Welter ’73 will graduate this year with a bachelor’s in geological sciences.
“I still can’t believe I did it,” confesses Welter, who completed the missing three credit hours at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, NC, in December 2019. “I look at my transcript, and there it is, an A in calculus.”
Rachel Wallisky ’21, a double major in American studies and history with a minor in political science from Horseheads, NY, has been named a Newman Civic Fellow for 2020-21.
SUNY Geneseo’s Admissions Office has adjusted its recruitment and enrollment activities to accommodate stay-at-home directives, pivoting to expanded online resources and responding to the urgent and changing needs of students and families.
Here are some initiatives the College offers to support families during their college search process: