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For the seventh year in a row, the College has been named as a Lead Institution in civic engagement by NASPA. Geneseo is one of 72 colleges and universities in the U.S. chosen as a Lead Institution. The College was honored for its ongoing commitment to developing socially responsible citizens through its curriculum and co-curricular programs.

SUNY Geneseo tops the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Undergraduate Teaching” rankings among regional universities in the North in its Best Colleges 2019 guidebook. The College also ranked second in the “Top Public Schools” category for regional universities in the North and is 14th in the overall regional category of 187 public and private institutions.

Geneseo faculty and students will provide a day of free entertainment at this year’s Rochester Fringe Festival. Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Lyric Theatre at 440 East Ave. in Rochester, performances will include music, dance and spoken word.

SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library recently developed and launched an innovative new search tool that can access 52 different OER sources that contain more than 150,000 items. OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search), was co-developed by Ben Rawlins, director of Milne Library, and Bill Jones, digital resources and systems librarian at SUNY Geneseo.

Geneseo has had a unique 25-year partnership with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), which is the second-most powerful laser facility of its type in the world.

The 10-minute survey includes questions that focus on campus culture and perceptions of the College and a section on proposed designs for an evolution of the SUNY Geneseo logo.

Washington Monthly magazine has ranked SUNY Geneseo second overall among 695 master’s universities in the nation for its contributions to the public good across three broad categories: social mobility, research and service. It’s the sixth year in a row that Geneseo has been in the top five schools in the rankings.

New and returning students and faculty are settling in for the start of the 2018-19 academic year as classes begin today.

This summer, the Geneseo community welcomed close to 10,000 people to campus -- from area high school students to mushroom lovers to fans of WWII aircraft -- bringing tourism and an economic impact of roughly $180,000.

After graduation, construction work on campus stepped into high gear, resulting in the completion of a range of projects and continued work on others.

Annmarie Urso, associate professor of education and director of the Soaring Stars program in the School of Education, has received three grants to support the program and additional funding for a key transition component of the program.

The fall semester is almost upon us, and students and faculty are beginning to arrive on the SUNY Geneseo campus in preparation for the start of the 2018-19 academic year with classes beginning Monday, Aug. 27.

State University of New York Chancellor Kristina Johnson recently visited Geneseo’s campus as part of her tour of SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities. Johnson joined SUNY as its chancellor in September 2017.

SUNY Geneseo has launched a new Music Education advisement track that will ready bachelor’s degree students in music to apply for the master of arts degree from the Eastman School of Music.

SUNY Geneseo recently welcomed 150 high school students and mentors from across New York for Camp College, a 3-day college-access experience for upper-level high school students.

SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company included the College in its 2019 edition of "The Best 384 Colleges."

Kyle Matthews, assistant professor of Spanish, led a group of 10 Geneseo students who joined 19 students from other campuses as part of the SUNY Stands With Puerto Rico initiative. The students helped repair and replace roofs, doors, and windows on residents' homes.

SUNY Geneseo appears in the 2019 edition of “Fiske Guide to Colleges" as a “best and most interesting” college based on the quality of our academic offerings and students’ social and quality-of-life ratings.

SUNY Geneseo was identified by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a public institution with one of the best four-year graduation rates.

Three SUNY Geneseo faculty members, a professional staff members and a member of the college’s classified services are among recipients of Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence for the 2017-18 academic year. The honor provides system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and encourages the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

The Rochester City School District (RCSD) has awarded $76,800 to Susan Norman, director of the School of Education’s Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education, in support of this summer’s Rochester Young Scholars Academy at Geneseo (RYSAG).

Jason Ozubko, assistant professor of psychology at SUNY Geneseo, has received a three-year $370,245 Academic Research enhancement Award research grant from the National Institute on Neurological Disorder and Stroke.

Faculty member Glenn McClure has received a $50,000 National Science Foundation Innovation Corps-National Innovation Network Teams grant to explore the interpretation and representation of large amounts of data through non-speech audio such as music.

Some 700 alumni and friends will be returning to the SUNY Geneseo campus June 1-2 for Reunion 2018. The annual event will highlight class years ending in three and eight, affinity anniversaries, and a celebration of the 51-year career of Tom Matthews, associate dean of leadership and service.

SUNY Geneseo finished 11th in the 2017-18 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings, which measure the overall excellence of the 450 NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletic programs in the nation.