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Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 VOLUME LXXXXVI ISSUE VII SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com
SUNY Oswego opens forum for Chancellors
Nominations for award of exellence due Friday
Sydney Havens News Editor shavens@oswegonian.com SUNY schools are recognizing students for their professional achievements with the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service. The deadline for nominations is 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 5 via the online nomination form. According to the SUNY Administration, nominees must be “individuals of superior achievement, committed to the State University and its students, respected by the campus community and worthy of emulation by colleagues and students on campus and across the entire system”. Additionally, candidates must have completed three academic years of full-time professional service in the position for which
they are nominated immediately prior to the year of nomination. The awards provide SUNY-wide recognition in five categories: Faculty Service, Librarianship, Professional Service, Scholarship and Creative Activities and Teaching. One SUNY Oswego student received this award last year. Nominators will remain anonymous throughout the process. The nomination letter should address in detail how the nominee performed in fulfilling the job description for the position held. As well as how they demonstrated excellence in professional activities beyond the parameters of the job description. Also, how the nominee displayed creativity, innovation and demonstrated adaptability to institutional needs. Nominees will be informed of the nomination in mid-November. Those wishing to accept the
recommendation must submit a nominee acceptance form providing names and contact information for five reference writers by 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 19. All letters of support should be addressed to Dr. Kathleen Evans, Chair of the Chancellor’s Award Committee for Professional Service, and emailed as a PDF to Ms. Michele May at michele.may@oswego.edu by Dec. 10. Nominees will also be required to email their as well as their current performance program to Ms. Michele May at michele.may@ oswego.edu by 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2021. For further information regarding the nomination and selection process, contact Dr. Kathleen Evans, Selection Committee Chair, at kathleen.evans@oswego.edu. Detailed information on this award is available on the SUNY website.
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The deadline to nominate a student for the Chancellors award is fast approaching and SUNY Oswego urges people to get their submissions in.
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Revisting vaccine mandate from students’ view
Kailee Montross | The Oswegonian It has been over a month since the vaccine mandate went into effect, on-campus cases have fallen since.
Brandon Ladd & Abigail Conpropst Editor-in-Chief/Copy Editor bladd@oswegonian.com It has been more than a month since the SUNY Oswego vaccine mandate went into effect on Sept. 27. The campus was able to reach 98% compliance shortly after that date, according to an email from SUNY Oswego President Deborah F. Stanley. An update has not been provided since but the numbers were expected to increase further according to Stanley. This would put SUNY Oswego hand in hand with the compliance rate of all SUNY schools of 99.5% according to an Oct. 13 SUNY press release. This has put SUNY Oswego, and all SUNY schools in general, at an advantage to combat the pandemic, with a vaccination rate far higher than the national average of college age students, 18-24 years old, with at least one vaccine. That rate sits around 65% currently. The vaccine mandate has put SUNY schools in position to potentially drop their current mask mandates. However, the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance of masking indoors while in counties of substantial or high levels of COVID-19 transmissions has prevented this from happening.
SUNY chancellor Jim Malatras has credited the return to normal activities at SUNY schools to the high vaccine numbers. “There is a new energy on our campuses this semester because we have fully reopened,” Malatras said. “The main reason we’ve been able to is because our students have stepped up and have gotten vaccinated. Our students have told us they wanted to get back on campus, return to the classrooms, reconnect with their friends, and participate in live, on-campus events, like athletics and the arts.” This energy has been seen on the SUNY Oswego campus as athletic events have seen full stands throughout the fall, the theatre department was able to return to Waterman theatre and the “Green and Gold” photo on Founders Weekend returned with smiling faces embracing closely outside of the Marano Campus Center. The attitude of students varies on the semester and how the vaccine mandate has helped the return to normal. The chief complaint being the mask-wearing still being required, even as COVID-19 cases amongst SUNY Oswego residential students have dwindled down throughout the semester.
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