SUNY Oneonta Among 14 Colleges On Money’s Fastest-Improving List ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta is one of 14 colleges and universities named to a new MONEY magazine list of public schools that stand out as “the most rapidly improving high-value colleges in the nation.” In the MONEY analysis, SUNY Oneonta was singled out for having an above-average graduation rate, for raising its graduation rates for all students by at least 10 percent from 2003 to 2013, and for reducing achievement gap disparities among…
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Kiplinger Ranks SUNY Oneonta Among Best College Values In U.S. ONEONTA – Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has named SUNY Oneonta 191st on its list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016. The rankings, released Dec. 16, also includes the Oneonta college on its 100 Best Values in Public Colleges list for the 10th consecutive year.…
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SUNY Oneonta Student Charged With Making Terroristic Threats ONEONTA – A SUNY Oneonta student has been charged with making a terroristic threat after posting that he was going to “shoot up the school” on the popular Yik Yak social media platform. Brandon Matthew Negron, 20, of New Windsor, was arrested by the New York State University Police at SUNY Oneonta on Sunday evening in connection with a post on YikYak that read “I’m going to shoot up the school. Be…
SUSPECT HELD IN SUNY THREAT ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta president Nancy Kleniewski announced at 7 p.m. that a suspect in Saturday’s YikYak threat has been taken into custody. “While the investigation will continue, UPD is confident that the message, which was reported to mention shooting tomorrow, does not present a threat,” Kleniewski said. “The last several hours have been tense on our campus, at Hartwick College, in the City of Oneonta, and in the homes of students’ parents near and…
‘Yik-Yak’ Message Threatens Violence At SUNY, UPD Says ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta’s University Police Department over the weekend advised the campus community by e-mail that it had opened an investigation in response to reports of a message posted on the social medium YikYak threatening violence on Monday. UPD is working with YikYak, the State Police, the Oneonta Police Department, and Hartwick security to develop information about the origin of the message and the person who wrote it, according to the e-mail. It…
SUNY Honoree Explains Why We Yawn ONEONTA – It’s no snooze as Dr. Andrew Gallup, SUNY Oneonta assistant professor of psychology, will deliver the annual Richard Siegfried Lecture titled “Towards an Understanding of Why We Yawn” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in the Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center at SUNY Oneonta. The lecture is free and open to the public. A dessert reception will follow. Dr. Gallup is the 21st recipient of the Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence. The $1,000 award, created to…
SUNY Professor Ford’s Short Story Receives Prestigious Pushcart Prize ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta creative writing instructor April L. Ford has won a Pushcart Prize for her short story “Project Fumarase.” The story, which was published in New Madrid Journal in summer 2014, will appear in the 2016 Edition Pushcart Prize anthology, due out Nov. 2. The Pushcart Prize is a literary prize created by Pushcart Press to honor the best poetry, short fiction and essays published in non-commercial, small presses the…
SUNY Oneonta Athletes Pledge Not To Tolerate Bullying, More ONEONTA – The student athletes of SUNY Oneonta have pledged to “step up, speak up and take action” as part of an initiative to bring awareness to not being bystanders and to intervene to promote safety and protect those that may be in harms way, the college announced today. To this end, 2015 graduate and captain of the women’s tennis team, Brynn Sussman, produced a video that speaks to Bystander Intervention,…
F. DANIEL LARKIN, 1938-2015 Funeral Tuesday For Retired Provost, Scholar, Administrator, Civic Leader ONEONTA – The funeral mass for retired SUNY Oneonta Provost F. Daniel Larkin, 76, who died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, at Fox Hospital, will be at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Calling hours will be 6-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand St. Daniel Larkin, Dan to all who knew him, left this world a…
