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Special Touches Enhance Graduation
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Dragon Express student worker Ashiyha Mcclurrin packs a Class of 2021 celebration box.
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A graduate pauses for a photo with Acting President Dennis Craig as part of the stage crossing held in Hunt Union.
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| The pandemic continues to present challenges for gatherings, which is why the college has created an innovative hybrid approach to the 2021 spring commencement. We have worked hard to organize a commencement experience that acknowledges our graduates' years of hard work and significant achievements while complying with all health and safety guidelines.
All graduates were invited to cross the stage in their regalia and have their names called while photos were taken during our Stage Crossing on May 5 and 6. The event was live-streamed and is available to watch here. Graduates seemed to really appreciate this opportunity.
SUNY Oneonta’s virtual commencement will air Saturday, May 15, and will feature recognition of individual graduates, the official conferral of degrees, and special guest speakers. Graduates, friends, faculty and staff, family members and other well-wishers will be able to view the ceremony on the school’s commencement webpage and congratulate the graduates in a live chat during the event. Each ceremony will also be recorded for viewing at a later date.
Lots of fun SUNY Oneonta digital swag has been designed so students can share their graduation socially. Commencement-related Snapchat geofilters, GIFs and Facebook banners, even downloadable signs for printing, will ensure that graduates can show their Red Dragon pride far and wide.
And to make the commencement experience extra special, the college is sending each graduate a celebration box with gifts to help enhance the at-home celebration. The boxes have been personalized to the graduate, containing honor cords and awards as well as a program, tassel and SUNY Oneonta champagne glass.
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| Day of Giving Sets Support Record
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| Paul Adamo
Vice President for College Advancement
On April 21, a collective effort from over 700 SUNY Oneonta alumni, faculty and staff, parents, students, and friends raised more than $280,000 in support of our students and their educational goals. Thank you for your support! We would like to especially thank the 72 current and retired SUNY Oneonta employees who made a gift on the Day of Giving, as well as the 285 who have made at least one gift this year. Because of you, SUNY Oneonta students have access to an affordable, life-changing educational experience.
Day of Giving student impact highlights include:
- $115,400+ donated to the Fund for Oneonta, which provides funding for student scholarships, networking and career development, library resources, student research, campus traditions, and more;
- $71,100+ donated to expand student scholarships; and
- $39,300+ donated to provide critical aid through the Student Emergency Fund.
Andrea Casper ’75, president of the College at Oneonta Foundation Board of Directors, said, “I would like to thank every SUNY Oneonta employee who participated in the 2021 Day of Giving and everyone who continues their support through payroll deduction or recurring giving. Your generosity on the Day of Giving, and every day, makes the difference between a good education and a great one.”
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| Ed Beck wins SUNY FACT2 Award
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Instructional Designer Ed Beck
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Ed Beck, instructional designer in the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, has earned a 2021 SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching & Technology (FACT2) Excellence Award for Instructional Support. FACT2 Excellence Awards are system‐level honors conferred to acknowledge and recognize consistently noteworthy achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence. These awards underscore SUNY’s commitment to the use of technology to support instruction, research and service.
This award recognizes Ed’s leadership on campus and across SUNY in a myriad of distance education and open learning initiatives, including spearheading the successful SUNY Oneonta Open Educational Resources (OER) program. The award also recognizes the critical expertise and unflagging support Ed provided to faculty during the pandemic-driven pivot to remote learning, working with care and dedication on creative solutions that enabled effective online teaching and online student engagement. Among other meaningful accomplishments, Ed has led the SUNY Create Initiative, which provides a suite of resources and tools that support web literacy and content creation. Notably, SUNY Create provides the platform for the SUNY Oneonta "The Semester of Living Dangerously: Pandemic Diaries" site, of which Ed is designer, developer and editor.
FACT2 is an advisory body to the SUNY Provost, advocating and acting as a resource for University stakeholders at the nexus of technology, pedagogy and research.
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| Business Faculty Recognized
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This semester Liyao Pan, assistant professor of management; Juan Wang, assistant professor of accounting; and Hua Zhong, associate professor of management, have been inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing business excellence.
Notable members of Beta Gamma Sigma include Nobel Prize winners, Olympians, inventors, CEOs of major global companies and nonprofit organizations, deans of the top business schools, and others who are making the world a better place at all levels of contribution through social enterprise, service and leadership.
Congratulations to Liyao Pan, Juan Wang and Hua Zhong!
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Provost Kahanov Co-Authors Textbook
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The textbook gives students a complete picture of their role as athletic trainers as they explore its pages. The book offers contemporary concepts not often found in other introductory texts, such as cultural literacy, interprofessional practice, preventative health care, administrative management, special populations and epidemiology. The text integrates essential competencies outlined by the AT Strategic Alliance, a collaboration of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Board of Certification, and Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education.
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| College Among Most Affordable
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| College Consensus, a unique new college review aggregator, has ranked SUNY Oneonta as number 33 on its list of the "Top 100 Best Value Colleges and Universities for 2021." The college ranking also includes a link to a more extensive profile of SUNY Oneonta.
College Consensus combines two different sets of data for its method of selection. First, they gather results from the most reputable rankings, including Money, Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, Wallethub, and Washington Monthly. Then, they pull together the most legitimate, verified student reviews from sites like Students Review, My Plan, Cappex, and others. They combine the publisher rating and the student review rating to calculate their Consensus rating,
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