Over 1,000 students are expected to attend and over 80 employers will be present at this year’s festival with over 400 job, co-op and internship opportunities available to current college students and recent alumni.

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Two local colleges have made the annual list of top producers of Fulbright grants – SUNY Geneseo and the University of Rochester. The annual list is broken down in groups of schools designated by their terminal degrees. Hence, UR is ...

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Two things are certain about online education in 2020: the phenomenon will continue to grow in higher education settings, and institutions will continue to deliver it in their own unique ways. If you’ve been on social media in the last ...

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Two Rochester-area colleges have made new administrative appointments, with two hires migrating from one school to another. State University College at Geneseo has hired a new vice president for college advancement and executive director of the Geneseo Foundation. Ellen Leverich, ...

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Geneseo Professor Harry Howe has been named a distinguished teaching professor by the State University of New York. Howe, professor of accounting at SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business, is one of 13 SUNY faculty members receiving distinguished honors this year. ...

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Though employers, educators and even parents have fixated on STEM disciplines to prepare young people for jobs in an increasingly technological society, a recently convened expert panel said it’s important to remember the humanities. And above all, they said, young ...

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An alumna of SUNY Geneseo is returning to the college to become vice president for finance and administration. Julie L. Buehler, who graduated from Geneseo in 1989 and later earned an MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School, will begin her new job at Geneseo July 25.

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K. Johnson Bowles has suddenly left her position as chief of advancement and the director of the Geneseo Foundation at the State University College at Geneseo. College President Denise Battles announced the departure Friday morning in a campus community email, ...

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Nazareth College has named Meaghan Arena its new vice president for enrollment and student experience, starting in February. Arena most recently worked as a vice president for enrollment at SUNY Geneseo. In her 16 years of experience in higher education ...

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The State University College at Geneseo has a new dining hall. The college held a grand opening of the 21,000-square-foot Red Jacket Dining Complex during Homecoming festivities last weekend. Visitors got to see a pay-one-price Red Jacket dining hall, as ...

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Thirty-eight thousand. That’s a conservative estimate of how many workshops in leadership that SUNY Geneseo students have taken under Tom Matthews’ direction. The founder of the Geneseo Opportunities for Leadership Development program, or GOLD, Matthews knows that number because he ...

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Four local and regional institutions are on lists for producing the most Fulbright students—students who win a Fulbright scholarship to study abroad—in 2017-18. The four are the State University College at Geneseo, Nazareth College, University of Rochester and Hobart and ...

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More than a week after many faculty members at the State College of New York at Geneseo and some students learned that the dean of business had been removed during winter break, the president has announced the change in leadership. ...

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According to faculty and alumni sources, the dean of the business school at the State University College at Geneseo has been removed from her administrative position by college President Denise A. Battles. Neither Denise Rotondo, who has been dean at the business school since 2014, nor Battles, who came to Geneseo in 2015, were immediately available for comment. Apparently Rotondo is continuing on as a member of the faculty, but the specifics of that position were unavailable. A college spokesman said the administration plans to announce the change soon to the business school’s faculty and staff.

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Several local and regional colleges have made the Kiplinger’s list of 2018 Best College Values. University of Rochester ranked the highest of local schools, at 30th out of 100 private schools and 94th out of 300 schools overall. Among public ...

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