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SUNY Fredonia Convocation Series continues with 'Folk Song Festival'
SUNY Fredonia’s 2013 Convocation series, "Raising Cultural Awareness and Building Global Relations," continues to celebrate diversity this semester through a Folk Song Festival, designed to blend music, history and culture together to promote cultural awareness and explore multiculturalism within the community. The festival will take place Monday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m., in the Williams Center's Multipurpose Room.
Nezhukumatathil named in Huffington Post’s 2013 Top 200 Advocates for American Poetry
Professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil of the Department of English, was named in Huffington Post’s 2013 Top 200 Advocates for American Poetry. Other notables on the list include Garrison Keillor, Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray, and several U.S. Poet Laureates, including W.S. Merwin, Billy Collins, and Rita Dove.
NPR's Michael Eric Dyson, acclaimed author/sociologist, to keynote 2013 Convocation
One of the nation’s most inspiring speakers, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, will deliver the annual Convocation address at SUNY Fredonia on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 3 p.m. at King Concert Hall. This year's Convocation theme is "Raising Cultural Awareness and Building Global Relations."
Five 'Fredonians' honored with Chancellor's Award for Excellence
The prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, a statewide honor that recognizes consistently superior professional achievement and service throughout SUNY, has been awarded to five SUNY Fredonia employees.
The 85th Annual Meeting of New York State Geological Association will be hosted by the Department of Geosciences
The 85th Annual Meeting of New York State Geological Association will be hosted by the Department of Geosciences on Sept. 20 to 22 as part of the department’s 50th anniversary celebration. Activities will include five field trips on Saturday and Sunday, and a Saturday night banquet featuring a talk by Dr. Gary Lash.
SUNY Fredonia professor pens first 'Open SUNY' online textbook
Fredonia Distinguished Teaching Professor Ted Steinberg has written the first chapter in a pilot SUNY project designed to control higher education costs by producing online textbooks and making them available to college students — for free.
New lecture series on diversity begins Sept. 19
The first event in a new lecture series, “Diversity as Personal Responsibility,” will be held Thursday, Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. at the Reed Library garden area. The session will look to continue the conversations regarding diversity explored by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings during her visit to campus in August.
U.S. News & World Report ranks SUNY Fredonia 14th among regional public universities in the North
For the second year in a row, SUNY Fredonia has been ranked 14th among the top public universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” rankings.
Learn about study abroad programs at fair
Students interested in pursuing international educational adventures are invited to visit the Study Abroad Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 2 to 5 p.m., at...
Speech-Language Pathology master's program awarded re-accreditation
The Master of Science degree program in Speech-Language Pathology within the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at SUNY Fredonia was awarded re-accreditation on Aug. 14 by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). The eight-year re-accreditation was awarded based on the department’s application and a site visit by the accreditors, who confirmed SUNY Fredonia’s compliance with ASHA standards.