GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo has made another strong showing on the Forbes annual national best-college list, ranking the 63rd best public college in the country and 100th among all public and private colleges in the northeast.
Students from the Rochester City School District are doing real archaeological digs on campus this week, part of the Rochester Young Scholars Academy at Geneseo camp to develop interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. One group found a Native American artifact thought by archaeologists to be between 3,000 and 6,000 years old. Sixty students are participating in the two-week camp.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is among 46 “Best Buy Schools” in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, named in the 2017 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges.” Inclusion on the list in the highly respected publication is based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.
The publication names 46 institutions this year – 21 public and 26 private – as “Best Buys,” categorized as inexpensive or moderately priced with a four- or five-star academic rating. Geneseo has been consistently named to the list for several years.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Twelve SUNY Geneseo students and one alumnus are serving as ambassadors in the college’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development (CIDD) for the 2016-17 school year. The center is a hub for students seeking to collaborate with faculty, individuals and organizations that play critical roles in business, the arts, industry and other fields. CIDD programming encourages students to question past traditional answers to create new or different solutions to local and/or global issues.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Fifteen SUNY Geneseo students are Presidential Scholars for the 2016-17 academic year, representing a variety of academic areas and exemplifying the college's institutional values. A presidential scholar is a top-achieving member of the senior class who also serves as an ambassador for the college.
Geneseo's administration of SUNY's Open Textbook initiative is highlighted in an Inside Higher Ed story on open educational resources. Interim Library Director Kate Pitcher is quoted on the college's involvement with the program.
Anjoo Sikka, dean of the Ella Cline Shear School of Education, was among those quoted in a recent Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article on the need for substitute teachers and the general trend for teaching jobs, which she says indicates an increasing demand.
President Battles was featured in "The Key Reporter," Phi Beta Kappa's publication for news and alumni relations. The article was written by alumna Meghan Barrett '16, who received a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa writing internship for 2016.
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