Diversity and Inclusion

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.

The Mark Lomax Quartet will explore past, present and future when they perform “400: An Afrikan Epic” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23 in SUNY Oswego's Sheldon Hall ballroom.

With a conference theme of “Decolonizing the Mind,” the annual ALANA Student Leadership Conference at SUNY Oswego, Sept. 18 to 23, will promote empowerment, self-awareness and embracing diversity.

Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow announced the appointment of Dr. Rodmon King, SUNY Oswego’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, as chair of the Campus-City Relations Committee. The CCRC, established in 2006, seeks to connect the SUNY Oswego campus community with that of the greater City of Oswego community.

The two most recent SUNY Oswego connections to win prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student program awards add to a recent track record of success while reflecting campus efforts to expand diversity in studying abroad.

lisa Descartes, a SUNY Oswego senior public justice major, last summer thought about the need for faculty and alumni connections among students of color seeking to move on to graduate school or careers -- daunting frontiers for any student near graduation, but particularly for minority and first-generation college students.

The American Sign Language Club at SUNY Oswego aims to build awareness of deaf culture and the beauty of the language through ASL storyteller Dack Virnig's performance on campus.

Author and sociologist Dr. Joseph Ewoodzie will discuss "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson and Other Stories of Our Social World" in an “I Am Oz” Diversity Speakers Series presentation at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at the Marano Campus Center auditorium (Room 132) at SUNY Oswego.

A closet-cleaning chore spawned an ambitious and growing effort to lend prom dresses to girls who couldn't otherwise afford them, leading to a top award from Harlem Fashion Week for the founding sisters, both seniors at SUNY Oswego.

SUNY Oswego will present "Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity," an interview-style production that illuminates the daily experiences of five young Muslim Americans who came of age in a post-9/11 society, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Sheldon Hall ballroom.