Long recognized as a voter-friendly campus with high levels of student voter engagement, SUNY Geneseo has expanded those efforts in anticipation of the 2024 election.
SUNY Geneseo’s University Police Department (UPD), through the college’s Office of Finance and Business Development, recently received a $250,000 award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for Crisis Response and Intervention Training (CRIT). The grant will support the development and implementation of training programs to enhance police and first-responder preparedness and to improve responses to individuals in crisis who have physical or behavioral health conditions, or intellectual or developmental disabilities at the College.
This training will also provide for:
Rodmon King, PhD, has been selected as SUNY Geneseo’s new chief diversity officer. He assumes the role on November 7.
“I am thrilled at the appointment of Dr. Rodmon King as Geneseo's next chief diversity officer,” President Denise A. Battles says. “He is an exceptionally well-qualified individual, with experiences spanning DEI roles at multiple higher education institutions, including within SUNY. He has compiled a strong record of accomplishments as a DEI thought leader, and I look forward to welcoming him to the Geneseo community later this fall.”
Mark Broomfield, associate professor of English at SUNY Geneseo and director of Performance as Social Change, has recently published Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight (Routledge, 2024).
A new partnership with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) will facilitate early admission for SUNY Geneseo students interested in dentistry, podiatry, or osteopathic medicine.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy has introduced an astrophysics major for undergraduate students beginning in Fall 2024. The program is the only one of its kind in the SUNY system.
SUNY Geneseo and the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have formed a collaborative agreement providing students an accelerated opportunity to earn a Doctor of Pharmacy degree.
New and returning students and faculty gathered at two campus convocations to mark the beginning of Fall 2024.
SUNY Geneseo and the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Law have formed a collaborative agreement allowing students to accelerate their studies by completing their BA and JD degrees in six years of full-time study, saving them one year of time and tuition.