Recent Milestones
• U.S. News counts SUNY Oswego among the Top Public Regional Universities in the North for 2012, and Princeton Review includes Oswego in its book "The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2012 Edition."
• Oswego launched the SUNY system's first multiple-major co-op program, giving students an inside shot at obtaining full-time work following graduation.
A time-lapse look at progress on the Science and Engineering Innovation Corridor
• The Carnegie Foundation awarded SUNY Oswego a prestigious Community Engagement Classification in January 2011, an honor the foundation announced for 114 other institutions across the nation, from Cornell and Stony Brook universities to the universities of Notre Dame and Southern California. Then in May 2011, Oswego was named to the U.S. President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll “with Distinction," an equally distinguished recognition for the college's commitment to volunteering, service learning and civic engagement.
• SUNY Oswego broke ground in September 2010 for its Sciences and Engineering Innovation Corridor, a $110 to $120 million project that will renovate and expand Piez Hall into a 262,000-square-foot state-of-the-art complex supporting future scientists, engineers and teachers.
• The new Village townhouse community, a $40 million residential project south of Glimmerglass Lagoon, in August 2010 welcomed 348 students for a new, more independent campus living option.
• Oswego earned approval for the SUNY system's first degree in risk management and insurance in 2009.
• SUNY Oswego became the first public college in New York to offer a software engineering degree in fall 2008.
• Inspiring Horizons: The Campaign for Oswego exceeded its $23 million goal by hundreds of thousands of dollars as it concluded its six-year run on June 30, 2008, with an outpouring of support from alumni and others. This comprehensive development campaign, Oswego's first, included a $1 million gift from an alumna that will establish the college's first endowed professorship.
• New School of Communication, Media and the Arts launched in spring 2008.
• Oswego's first study-abroad program in Africa, a course in Benin that continues an ongoing educational exchange with the developing nation
• Opening of the entire Campus Center complex in fall 2007, connecting the new Campus Center with the renovated Poucher Hall; dedicated with a live NBC Today Show broadcast by Oswego alumnus Al Roker
• NCAA Division III men's ice hockey championship in spring 2007
