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SUNY Oswego storm-chasing students pause (from a safe distance) with a supercell near Tahoka, Texas

SUNY Oswego storm-chasing students study twisters across Tornado Alley

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A SUNY Oswego storm-chasing class saw and tracked several twisters through Tornado Alley earlier this summer in an intense real-life classroom experience.
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During March 2025, a group of SUNY Oswego students traveled for alternative spring break project helping clear trails for the American Hiking Association in the Philadelphia area.

SUNY Oswego rises in Washington Monthly’s ‘public good’ rankings

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SUNY Oswego moved up in the most recent “public good” rankings from Washington Monthly that measure higher education’s contributions to bettering the world through service, research and improving the lives of its graduates.
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Clarissa Karki, an award-winning broadcasting student from Nepal, details her experiences through SUNY Oswego.

Clarissa Karki

Tatienna Samuels in the EOP office

Oswego student among the first fellows for SUNY EOP career development program

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SUNY Oswego sophomore public relations major Tatienna Samuels is one of nine inaugural students taking part in a new SUNY Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) career development fellowship.
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Students and representatives of SUNY Oswego, SUNY and others came together on Oct. 21 to celebrate the launch of Advancing Completion through Engagement (ACE) program supporting student success

SUNY Oswego celebrates strong start for ACE student success program

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SUNY Oswego recently celebrated the successful startup of its Advancing Completion through Engagement (ACE) program, a transformative four-year model that has been widely demonstrated to increase student completion rates and narrow opportunity gaps.
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Aerial view of campus with fall foliage and Lake Ontario

SUNY Oswego rises in U.S. News rankings, named #9 in North for social mobility

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SUNY Oswego climbed to #37 from #39 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “2025 Best Regional Universities in the North” and earned the #9 spot in the North for social mobility, according to the publication released on September 26,...
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Update on Hewitt Hall renovations

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The renovations of iconic Hewitt Hall, with an expected completion date of August 2025, will bring to life the values of SUNY Oswego’s School of Communication, Media and the Arts: innovation, inspiration and interdisciplinary collaboration. This $80 million project converts...
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SUNY Oswego's MLK Day of Service, shown here with students preparing food to help local agency Rise Against Hunger

SUNY Oswego continues on rankings for ‘public good’

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An ongoing commitment to contribute to the common good and to student success helped SUNY Oswego continue on the Washington Monthly list of top Master’s Universities for its advancement of quality academics and the public good.
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SUNY Oswego Technology Student Association members continued their run of success in conference competitions, earning three second-place finishes and one fourth-place nod at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association conference

Technology education students win awards at international conference

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Students from the SUNY Oswego Technology Student Association continued their run of success in conference competitions, earning three second-place finishes and one fourth-place nod at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) conference in Memphis in March.
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Image of a total solar eclipse courtesy of NASA

SUNY Oswego plans activities connected to April 8 eclipse

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With the once-in-a-lifetime experience of being in the path of totality for a total solar eclipse on April 8, SUNY Oswego will host student research, viewing opportunities, planetarium shows, children’s activities, lectures from experts and more on its lakeside campus.
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Video rewind: SUNY Oswego's WTOP hosts first all-women's sports broadcast

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On Feb. 2, 2024, SUNY Oswego's student-run TV station, WTOP, made history with a broadcast team of all women.
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SUNY Oswego student Clarissa Karki sitting at the CNN newsroom anchor desk.

Oswego student journalist wins BEA 'Best of Show' award

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SUNY Oswego student journalist Clarissa Karki won the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) “Best in Show” award for her story on a local operetta “The Golden Cage."
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SUNY Oswego student Baye Massene Diallo with Dominique Bikaba, the executive director of Strong Roots Congo

Student conducts ‘life-changing’ economics research in Democratic Republic of Congo

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Baye Massene Diallo, a senior double majoring in economics and business administration, said he recently had a “life-changing” experience researching his economics capstone project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Africa.
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SUNY Oswego student Naw Ka Paw Paw, who earned a position in SUNY’s 2022 Premedical Opportunity Program, is shown among stacks of medical books

Oswego student earns SUNY EOP ambassador role

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SUNY Oswego senior biology major Naw Ka Paw Paw recently joined a distinguished list of SUNY Educational Opportunity student ambassadors, a role in which she advocates for and promotes this program that opens doors to higher education for students.
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Aerial view of campus with fall foliage and Lake Ontario

SUNY Oswego makes big move up U.S. News rankings

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SUNY Oswego climbed 15 spots to #39 in U.S. News and World Report’s “2024 Best Regional Universities in the North,” according to the publication released on September 18, 2023.
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Students in the "Travel and Tourism" study abroad course pose for a picture at their cooking class held at Chefactory Cooking Academy in Florence, Italy. The group is all wearing white aprons with the company logo.

'Travel and Tourism PR' course explores Italy

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Public relations professor Lindsay McCluskey and her class recently returned from their study abroad trip to Florence, Italy titled “Travel and Tourism PR."
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Aerial view of Marano Campus Center and surrounding buildings

SUNY Oswego on Money magazine 2023 Best Colleges list

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SUNY Oswego was recently named to Money magazine’s 2023 Best Colleges list that recognized institutions based on quality, affordability and student outcomes.
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It's official: SUNY Oswego is now recognized as a university

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SUNY Oswego continues to add to its storied history of serving and preparing students for success with formal name change from college to university.
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SUNY Oswego student Naw Ka Paw Paw, who earned a position in SUNY’s 2022 Premedical Opportunity Program, is shown among stacks of medical books

SUNY Oswego student earns opportunity to advance medical ambitions

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For SUNY Oswego student Naw Ka Paw Paw, earning a position in SUNY’s 2022 Premedical Opportunity Program will continue building toward a dream that could lead to establishing clinics in her homeland of Myanmar.
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Gabrielle Golfo works on her laptop in the Educational Opportunity Program office

Gabrielle Golfo celebrates opportunity through role as SUNY EOP Ambassador

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If anybody has to wonder why senior Gabrielle Golfo was one of a small group selected to become SUNY Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Ambassadors, Joey Tse –- director of the college’s EOP operation –- thinks back to summer 2018, as...
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Collaborative research trying to crack the eggshell code

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A collaboration between faculty in the field and in the lab with outstanding student researchers tries to crack the code of what eggshell variations might mean.
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Christian DiBiase sits in a Shineman Center lab surrounded by research equipment

Oswego biology major earns SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence

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SUNY Oswego senior biology major Christian DiBiase recently earned a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest such recognition in the statewide system, for outstanding work spanning classrooms, research labs and fieldwork to help others.
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Arisa White is among an all-star panel of judges and writers discussion as part of the first-ever Subnivean Awards

Subnivean Awards to feature all-star writers’ discussion, finalists' readings

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“Lemony Snicket” author Daniel Handler, April Sinclair (whose book, "Coffee Will Make You Black," is about to become a major motion picture) and luminary poet Arisa White will share their knowledge and insights in conversation, hosted by and for SUNY...
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Samisha Elysee earned the Newman Civic Fellowship for initiatives like the Black Excellence Tour and other ways of improving lives for the Oswego family

Celebrating Black culture, promoting positivity earn student Newman Civic Fellowship

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Dedication to celebrating Black history and culture and ongoing commitment to improving the lives of others have earned SUNY Oswego junior accounting major Samisha Elysee the Newman Civic Fellowship, a national honor.
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Image from Forkget About It website, offering easy, creative recipes that are inexpensive to prepare

New BFA in interaction design to prepare students in intersecting media

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SUNY Oswego’s new bachelor of fine arts in interaction design brings together art, technology, design and communication to provide a distinctive major that prepares graduates to excel in a world of intersecting media.
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Senior human development major Coralys Diaz came to Oswego as undecided, but found her path through the help of caring mentors. She pays it forward by helping students feel welcome at Oswego, working in the Admissions Office and interning in the college's Educational Opportunity Program, among many other activities.

Coralys Diaz

Fadi Gaye at her internship with SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Oswego student, future medical professional earns SUNY-wide award

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SUNY Oswego wellness management major Fadi Gaye was recently one of 45 students in SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) to receive the statewide Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence, recognizing ability to overcome obstacles to achieve success.
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Oswego students participate in an Erie Canal Conference

SUNY Oswego ranked nationally in Washington Monthly’s ‘public good’ index

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SUNY Oswego earned a national ranking among best colleges in their class in Washington Monthly’s annual college guide that measures how institutions benefit the public good through student upward mobility, research and civic engagement.
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Student pouring in a chemistry lab

CSTEP to provide strong support to underrepresented students in STEM, professional fields

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SUNY Oswego recently secured a five-year grant from the New York State Department of Education to support the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP), which offers a range of strong support for underrepresented and/or economically disadvantaged students entering STEM...
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Zoom grid scene with participants in award ceremony for the virtual college film festival

Alumni step up to help college film festival go on

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The show went on for an annual tradition for cinema and screen studies students thanks to alumni support and the determined creativity of filmmakers in the Oswego family.
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Ian Cummins and Theo Johnson with Blinks game pieces

SUNY Oswego lessons help students win competition, earn deal with startup

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For Ian Cummins and Theo Johnson, winning the Global Game Jam competition months ago in New York City was just the beginning of an adventure that includes their game’s inclusion in a startup’s new system.
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Broadcasting students traveled to New Hampshire to cover the presidential primary

SUNY Oswego students win 8 state broadcasting awards

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SUNY Oswego students and student-run WTOP-TV 10 and WNYO 88.9 FM recently added a combined eight new awards to their list of accomplishments through the New York State Broadcasters Association’s annual Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting.
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Cedric Hansen, a senior software engineering major from Ottawa and a goaltender for the Laker men's hockey team, said Oswego's combination of academics, location, facilities and athletics made it the perfect spot for him. He's already lined up a job with IBM after his May 2020 graduation.

Video Spotlight: Cedric Hansen

SRC Inc. presents a $1 million gift to SUNY Oswego to establish an endowed professorship in engineering

$1 million gift from SRC Inc. establishes endowed professorship in engineering

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SUNY Oswego’s engineering program received a $1 million gift from SRC Inc., a Syracuse-based research and development company, to establish an endowed professorship, strengthening the internationally accredited engineering program.
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Carlos Minaya celebrates his master's degree with his father

‘Once in a lifetime’ opportunity charts SUNY Oswego graduate’s success

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SUNY Oswego and the state Educational Opportunity Program offered a “once in a lifetime” opportunity for Carlos Minaya, the difference between a perilous path and his exciting future working in the one of the world’s top accounting firms.
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SUNY Oswego’s engineering programs earn ABET accreditation

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Global accreditation recognizes Oswego’s electrical computer engineering and software engineering programs
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Yulia Artemenko works on a grant-funded research project with students

SUNY Oswego again among Princeton Review's 'Best Regional Colleges'

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The Princeton Review once again has named SUNY Oswego to its list of the 224 Best Regional Colleges-Northeast, a distinction the college has earned every year since the educational services firm started regional listings in 2003.
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Aerial evening view of Sheldon Hall cupola with Colleges of Distinction logo

SUNY Oswego honored again among national Colleges of Distinction

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SUNY Oswego has been recognized once again for its committed implementation of high-impact educational practices, earning a place as one of the nation’s 2019-20 Colleges of Distinction, as well as on lists recognizing Public Colleges and for Business and Education...
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Al Roker broadcasts from his alma mater of SUNY Oswego during the 2017 Rokerthon

NBC TODAY’s Al Roker to teach course at his alma mater

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SUNY Oswego will welcome one of its own into the classroom this fall as Al Roker, national weather anchor on NBC's TODAY and co-host of the 3rd hour of TODAY, will teach a broadcasting course entitled “Camera Ready: Developing Your...
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Adrian Ieta with rotors used in breakthrough in ionic wind technology

Ion wind technology breakthrough takes flight at SUNY Oswego

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A new spin on propulsion is taking flight in a SUNY Oswego lab, leading to electrical and computer engineering faculty member Adrian Ieta and the SUNY Research Foundation pursuing a patent on this promising technology.
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Rachel Futterman (seen here in a 2016 photo), a recent recipient of a bachelor of fine arts degree at SUNY Oswego, is one of seven scholarship winners in the 2019 Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition.

SUNY honors recent Oswego art grad, displays her illustration in Albany

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State University of New York Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson recently announced that SUNY Oswego graduate Rachel Futterman is among seven scholarship winners across the 64-campus system in this year’s Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition.
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Tara O'Donovan operates a camera at an Oswego hockey game

Student-run WTOP earns national broadcasting awards

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Always among the biggest events locally, the Oswego and Plattsburgh men’s college hockey rivalry games scored big on a larger stage, as coverage by SUNY Oswego’s student-run WTOP-10 TV station earned two national awards recently.
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Student leads admission tour for families

New Admission Promise Program opens potential pathways

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Liam Morgenstern really wanted to attend a four-year college, preferably SUNY Oswego, after high school in Chatham. He received a letter that had, instead of a denial, a promise -- about the college's new Admission Promise Program.
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High schoolers and families attend college fair at SUNY Oswego

SUNY Oswego to host College and Career Night April 24

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The Oswego County Counselors Association in conjunction with SUNY Oswego will host College and Career Night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in the Marano Campus Center.
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Student tour guide gestures and lake and campus

Admissions fall open houses allow opportunities to explore campus

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Potential members of the Class of 2023 and new transfers will have opportunities to explore campus, meet future peers and faculty members and learn more about the college during any of three fall open houses.
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Students talk during Welcome Picnic

'Diverse, talented' Class of 2022 enrolls at SUNY Oswego

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As the school year opens, SUNY Oswego is on track to enroll perhaps its largest, most diverse class ever of new first-year students.
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College counselors at previous Camp College event

Oswego to host Camp College for high school students

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SUNY Oswego will welcome 180 high school students from New York City, Long Island, the North Country and points across the state to campus July 6 to 8 for Camp College, an important step toward college access -- and college...
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Professor Francisco Suarez (center) with students who participated in the Diversity in the Arts project

Documentaries showcase 'Many Voices, One Oswego; Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts'

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SUNY grant supports student-produced documentaries that explore topics of diversity through the lens of the arts - visual and performing.
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Daniel Griffin has kept the Oswego admissions efforts at the top of the field

SUNY Chancellor's Award honors 2 for professional service

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The State University of New York system recently honored SUNY Oswego's Daniel Griffin, director of admissions, and Michelle Bandla, coordinator of first-year programs and interim director of the Center for Experiential Learning, with the 2018 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in...
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Chris Byrne is part of this year's record number of Fulbright student awardees

SUNY Oswego has record year for Fulbright U.S. Student honors

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A record number of current students and/or recent alumni at SUNY Oswego are scheduled to go abroad under the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student program in 2018-19.
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Start Now partnership launches student success

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Start Now, a unique partnership between SUNY Oswego and Jefferson Community College, gets students on the road to success.
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Student ambassador offers tips for admissions open houses

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Coming to Oswego for an open house? Admissions student ambassador Kenny Belvin has some tips to make the most of it.
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Admitted Student Days show students where they belong

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SUNY Oswego's Admitted Student Days include admissions tours, presentations about majors, food in a dining hall and more to show prospective students how Oswego fits their future.
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College to greet diverse class of 1,500 freshmen

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SUNY Oswego’s enrollment of about 1,500 first-year students for the fall semester will approach and possibly surpass 2013’s class of first-year students—the largest since 1988—and establish a new high-water mark in ethnic diversity.“It’s an exciting time. These are changing times...
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