About | SUNY Fredonia

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Near the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York State, SUNY Fredonia offers just what you are looking for in a college education. With about 5,000 undergraduates and 400 graduate students on a beautiful residential campus, its small enough that you come to know many people well but large enough to have a variety of academic programs, extracurricular offerings, and ideas. With affordable tuition and housing, Fredonia gives you the academic challenges of a selective liberal arts college, committed to developing your character as you prepare for a career. At Fredonia you can be part of proud traditions in the arts, undergraduate research, Interdisciplinary Studies, and athletics. If you already know what you plan to study, Fredonia distinguished programs in music, fine and performing arts, education, humanities, and sciences are likely to offer just what you need. Interdisciplinary Studies programs—which brings together two or more disciplines—may be an exciting alternative for you if your interests tend to span more than one field. And if you’re exploring possible majors, the Liberal Arts program at Fredonia provides advising and seminars that help you discover your interests and talents. Fredonia offers you the chance to be completely involved in your college experience, in a creative environment that is welcoming and safe. Here you are connected to other students, to faculty and staff, and to the community. On campus, you have the convenience of comfortable, modern residence halls and a full range of dining options—all within a few minutes’ walk to your classes, rehearsal spaces, downtown restaurants and shops, or student organization meetings. Evenings and weekends are bustling with campus activities, and you can be a spectator, performer, or leader in the vibrant campus life. Imagine your life at Fredonia by exploring our website and planning a visit to the campus. You are welcome to be a part of all that this campus has been offering for more than 180 years.

Missions Statement- SUNY Fredonia Mission Statement

To offer programs at the baccalaureate and master’s degree levels – within and across the disciplines that comprise the liberal arts and sciences and in certain Come to Fredonia. Where Success is a Tradition. professional and applied fields – consistent with the university’s existing strengths, its participation in the SUNY system, and the contemporary and future needs of a changing society; and to affirm the centrality, in this enterprise, of a general education in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
To encourage teaching and learning in formal and informal settings on and off campus, as well as through field experiences, student support programs, services and activities, and advising and counseling.
To promote involvement in the scholarly and creative enterprise by recognizing and supporting a broad range of intellectual activity; basic research and artistic creation; understanding, synthesis, and interpretation of existing knowledge and art; sponsored projects; and research that seeks to improve methods of teaching and learning. The university values and supports scholarly activity that directly involves students in the creative process and recognizes that the patterns of knowledge at the frontiers of research increasingly cross disciplinary boundaries.
To contribute to the intellectual, social, and emotional development of students by preserving the quality of campus life beyond the classroom and laboratory, by insuring a rich variety of experiences within a congenial residential atmosphere and an engaging physical environment, and by encouraging a supportive sense of community.
To develop and support service to individuals and organizations beyond the campus by opening the university’s extensive educational, recreational, and cultural facilities to the community; by providing opportunities to attend lectures, athletic, and cultural events, by operating programs and clinics in association with specialized instructional programs, and by encouraging faculty and staff to contribute their expertise to the variety of community-based endeavors for which it may be of value.
To commit the university to education that provides an awareness of global interdependence and cultural diversity through its curricular and co-curricular activities. Through active recruitment of students, faculty, and staff from underrepresented populations and the inclusion of this diversity in its programs, the university seeks to provide its students with the academic and personal richness afforded by exposure to such pluralistic perspectives.
To draw upon and contribute to the academic resources of the State University of New York and, in the context of excellence, to further SUNY’s mission of providing accessible higher education to the diverse citizenry of New York State which the university serves.

About SUNY Fredonia

You can be part of this exciting tradition.

Missions Statement- SUNY Fredonia Mission Statement