Campus News

SUNY Cortland has emerged as a leader among its sister institutions for the rate by which its incoming freshmen earn a bachelor’s degree.

Children’s educational programs on creating sock puppets and skits, exploring rockets and sampling the fine arts will be highlighted during the Spring 2010 Children’s Museum season.

An exhibition of imagery from social networking sites showing Cortland area residents, titled “Townie!” will run through March 11 at Main Street SUNY Cortland’s Beard Building Gallery, 9 Main St.

President Erik J. Bitterbaum shared the new look of SUNY Cortland’s Web redesign as part of his State of the College address on Jan. 21 in Corey Union Function Room. The revamped Web site is scheduled to launch in March.

SUNY Cortland will celebrate Black History Month throughout February with a series of events including lectures, sandwich seminars, films, musical performances and the annual reception in celebration of diversity.

SUNY Cortland will host the Spring 2010 “Wellness Wednesday Series” featuring speakers, exhibits, self-help workshops and other programs intended to encourage campus and community members to try something new, whether it be yoga, tai chi, energy medicine, massage, Zumba dance-fitness techniques or a new approach to managing one’s diet.

Karen Hartnett Gallagher was named director of financial advisement in December.

The SUNY Cortland College Council will hold its next regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Jan. 25, at 4 p.m. in Miller Building, Room 405.

Robert Spitzer, a distinguished service professor and chair of the Political Science Department at SUNY Cortland, will review the accomplishments to date of U.S. President Barack Obama, on Thursday, Feb. 4, at SUNY Cortland.

R. Bruce Mattingly, who served as interim dean of SUNY Cortland’s School of Arts and Sciences since July 2008, was named dean of arts and sciences on Jan. 11, following a national search.