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News and Updates

  • Beyond the football, fireworks, and bonfire of homecoming weekend, many alumni returning to campus also helped with networking events, including an improved and expanded Shaping Your Vision career workshop. Shaping Your Vision is as an opportunity for students to establish career connections with alumni visiting campus from all walks of life. The workshop was the […]
    October 1, 2013
  • 51³Ô¹ÏÍø people aren’t shy about introducing themselves, especially when they are exchanging business cards and e-mail addresses with fellow alumni. The Office of Alumni Relations and the Center for Career Services are facilitating those connections by establishing a new series of professional networks. The first network — created by and for alumni in the finance […]
    September 30, 2013
  • First-year students on campus for arrival day were asked to describe themselves with  just one word. Their responses were captured in this video and help highlight the diversity, creativity, and excitement of the members of the Class of 2017. All the student responses also have been compiled into a word cloud. The text size of […]
    September 27, 2013
  • A ceremony attended by toddlers, parents, village representatives, and 51³Ô¹ÏÍø President Jeffrey Herbst marked the formal opening of a new wing at Chenango Nursery School (CNS). Under an agreement approved by the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Board of Trustees this year, the university entered a mutually beneficial partnership with CNS, which provides essential child care for many in […]
    September 26, 2013
  • Homecoming Weekend keynote speaker Keith Ferrazzi presented a simple message to 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students, faculty, and staff on Thursday: establish deeper relationships. The New York Times bestselling author and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight — a consulting firm designed to help people collaborate more effectively — focused on the idea of generosity when building more meaningful relationships […]
    September 20, 2013
  • Golfweek magazine has once again named Seven Oaks Golf Course one of the best campus golf courses in the nation. The magazine placed Seven Oaks 22nd on the list. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones in 1934, but wasn’t actually built until 1958. The second nine was completed and open for play in […]
    September 17, 2013
  • Carol Bleser, the first woman to be a full-time faculty member at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and the first to become a full professor at the university, died last month in Bellport, N.Y. At 51³Ô¹ÏÍø from 1970 until 1985, Bleser was first hired as an associate professor of history. She also would serve as interim director of Women’s […]
    September 14, 2013