IN OWN WORDS, SUNY ONEONTA’S
PRESIDENT EXPRESSES DELIGHT
ADMINISTRATOR
FROM COLORADO
NEW PRESIDENT
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ONEONTA – The State University of New York Board of Trustees today appointed Dr. Barbara Jean Morris, a higher-education administrator from Colorado, as SUNY Oneonta president, effective July 1.
She succeeds Nancy Kleniewski, president since 2008, a student-centric administrator who also reorganized the college under five deans, and implemented an energetic program of construction and renovation that transformed the campus.
Dr. Morris has served as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fort Lewis College, in Durango, Colo., since 2011.
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