Oswego's Digital Learning Environment Team hopes that your semester is off to a great start and offers these Brightspace updates.

Spring 2025 semester courses 

Spring 2025 courses were set to inactive, but instructors have the option to make them active if they wish. Students with incomplete grades still have access to these inactive courses.

Each year the State University of New York recognizes outstanding faculty service, teaching, librarianship, scholarship and creative activity through the conferral of Chancellor's Awards for Excellence and the promotions to the Distinguished Faculty ranks.

SUNY Oswego is authorized to submit up to four nominations for each of the following Chancellor's Awards:

SUNY Administration requires adherence to a new reporting schedule to ensure Inclusive Access (IA) costs are reflected on students' tuition bills in compliance with the Board of Trustees policy. Meeting this deadline is mandatory for any course or section to be included in the IA program, which supports textbook affordability for students and faculty.

Due to this new policy from SUNY for the Inclusive Access program:

The university’s newest food operation, Studio H in Hewitt Union, is currently out of service to address logistical issues.

Due to ongoing electrical challenges, the cafe is unable to serve patrons at this time. Auxiliary Services is working closely with colleagues in Facilities Services to put a permanent solution in place so they can keep the lights on and the ovens baking without interruption.

The flu and COVID vaccines will now be available for students and employees/ SUNY Oswego, in partnership with Wegmans Pharmacy, will host several vaccination clinics in Swetman Gym on the following dates:

• Thursday, Sept. 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (registration now open)
• Wednesday, Oct. 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (registration open as of Sept. 10)
• Tuesday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (registration opens on Sept. 30)

A new initiative by Career Services, partnering with the State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) campaign, looks to support students with professional readiness by seeking donations of ties in advance of "Knot Ready?," an Oct. 1 event where ties will be given to students, as well as instructions how to tie them.

Congratulations to the 25 students who have won prizes in the Welcome Fest raffle, sponsored by Penfield Library and Student Orientation and Family Engagement.

Each year, Penfield Library hosts Welcome Fest to welcome new students into the library through fun activities like button making, karaoke, board games and puzzle chess. All students who attended received cell phone wallets, highlighters, stress balls and a chance to win raffle prizes.

Looking to improve your sleep habits? The campus is invited to take part in the 30-day Sleep Challenge to help elevate individual regimens and get some good sleep.

Run by the Office of the Dean of Students and the Oz Peer Eds, the challenge provides each participant eith a bag filled with goodies to aid them and a PDF sleep journal to track their sleep.

Prizes are available for everyone who completes the challenge. and five students will be chosen at random for a grand prize.  

The SUNY Oswego Workgroup on Accessibility Practices invites the campus on a journey to make SUNY Oswego more inclusive and accessible. In anticipation of new Title II regulations, the group is offering multiple opportunities to engage in accessibility trainings: 

• "Access: A Quest Toward Inclusion" is a course designed for all members of the campus, faculty, staff and students. Use this link to register. 

Work begins today, Sept. 8, on the city of Oswego's main east-west thoroughfare, the Bridge Street Bridge on Route 104. 

The New York State Department of Transportation project, with work done by Slate Hill Constructors Inc., gets underway on Sept. 8 with temporary lane closures, the city announced on Friday. One lane will be closed at a time, starting with the westbound lanes. These will take an hour or two per lane to do inspections. 

If defects are found, lane closures will be a few days long to make spot repairs.