Month: October 2017

SUNY Oswego has awarded Merit Scholarships to a select group of students who started at the college in fall 2017. The Merit awards are $3,000 over four years. For non-New York state students, the total award can increase to as much as $39,000 in combination with a Destination Oswego scholarship.

Through METS, an alternative education component of the Center for Instruction, Technology and Innovation, students in grades seven through 12 whose parents have had to move around mostly for farm work were able to explore educational opportunities beyond high school and shared their career aspirations.

Teachers Becky Craig and Mary Throne collaborated with an art classroom at Westfield High School in Houston to distribute both hygiene and cleaning supplies to homeowners that were left to pick up the pieces after the hurricane destroyed homes and much of their contents.

Oswego County Opportunities Executive Director Diane Cooper-Currier welcomes Oswego County Federal Credit Union as a Silver Level sponsor for OCO’s “Giving Thanks” fundraiser. The event will be held Nov. 1, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Lake Ontario Convention, Event and Conference Center, 26 E. First St. in Oswego.

L-LCs at UAlbany bring outstanding new transfers into a community of learners who live on the same residence hall, take some classes together, build a strong relationship with their L-LC lead professor, and study and participate in co-curricular activities around the theme or intended major of the L-LC.