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Daily Health Screening used to track students’ health during pandemic

Similar to last semester, SUNY Oswego will use the Daily Health Screening to track students and their potential COVID-19 symptoms or exposures. In an email to students from Provost Scott Furlong and Vice President Jerri Howland, it is a requirement…

Stanley announces Littlepage Dining Hall reopening

As students returned to SUNY Oswego in a staggered format in order to limit the spread of COVID-19, they came back to disappointing news: Littlepage Dining Hall would be closed for the entire semester. A little over a week later,…

Oswego County offers free transportation to COVID-19 tests

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, Oswego County has implemented several steps to help its citizens receive testing and vaccines more efficiently. In a statement released on the Oswego County website, Legislature Chairman Jim Weatherup announced that the county…

Spring 2021 Forward Plan released

The SUNY Oswego Spring 2021 Forward Plan is a document instructing students on how to stay safe at college during this pandemic. It lays out what needs to happen in order for our campus to remain open and some of…

SUNY Oswego announces ‘highlights’ of spring 2021 plan

SUNY Oswego announced several points of the “Winter and Spring Forward 2021 Plan” in an email from President Deborah Stanley to the campus on Wednesday afternoon. After SUNY released its overarching guidelines for the spring 2021 semester, SUNY Oswego officials…

SUNY releases guidelines for Spring 2021 semester

With only a few weeks left in the semester, the State University of New York announced guidelines for the spring semester, including a later in-person start-date than originally anticipated, on Sunday, Nov. 15. The guidance will be followed by all…

Communication Matters panel discusses disinformation

The Communication Matters panel was presented on Nov. 9 by co-moderators Lindsay McCluskey and Stephanie Herbert with Tina McCorkindale and Marcia DiStaso as panelists. Herbert is a strategic communications graduate student, while her co-moderator, McCluskey is an assistant professor teaching…

‘Laker Success Package’ program announced

On Nov. 10, SUNY Oswego President Deborah Stanley announced the “Laker Success Package” in an email to students. The package combines financial assistance as well as career development opportunities in a time of overall uncertainty. The program has three elements…

Counseling center offers virtual programs, telecounseling to replace in-person

COVID-19 has changed the way people do everything in their daily lives. Such a drastic change in normalcy can take a toll on someone and their mental health. Specifically in colleges and universities, students have changed every aspect of the…

2020 commencement to honor May, December grads

In December, SUNY Oswego will hold its second virtual graduation since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, next month’s ceremony will look significantly different from the initial event. SUNY Oswego held the May 2020 graduation online, after finishing the…