SUNY Oneonta history

“Cultural Mobilization and British Responses to Cultural Transfer in Total War: the Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1916”, First World War Studies [UK] Volume 3 No.

For nearly 40 years, Old Main was the only building on campus, until 1933 when Bugbee School was built.

In 1952, the Faculty-Student Association Inc.(forerunner of today’s Oneonta Auxiliary Services) purchased a 63-acre farm about four miles north of the college.

WONY 90.9 FM is SUNY Oneonta's student-run radio station. It was founded in 1962 and broadcasts both online and through physical radio, and is active 24/7.

In fall 1963, the college started accepting transfer students into 13 liberal arts programs, beginning the transition to a multi-purpose higher education institution.

Established 1964, the Cooperstown Graduate Program admits sixteen to eighteen students each year.

The Department of English, Speech and Theater, which also included Foreign Languages, was the first to subdivide in 1969 into three departments: English, Speech and Theater, and Foreign Languages.

Doctor William Simons received his DA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977.

In 1982, the College at Oneonta Foundation was formed with the mission of raising and administering gifts and grants to enhance the academic status of the college through endowment, scholarships and institutional programs.

The college’s endowment grew from $1.9 million when Donovan joined SUNY Oneonta in 1988, to $30 million when he left.

Before joining the SUNY Oneonta faculty in 1993, she taught at the University at Buffalo and Brock University.

Miguel Leon, Francisco Pini and Julio Villanueva,. Lima: Prelatura de Huari, 1994.

First conceived in 1996 under the supervision of the late Douglas Shrader, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Oneonta, the event has become one of the most prestigious and widely attended undergraduate philosophy conferences in the United States.

Miguel Leon received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 1999.

The Big O' Poetry Slam is a widely attended event on the campus at Oneonta State. It was founded by Alicia Francis, Jamie Manning, Robert Haggerty, George Castle and Robb Thibault on October 24, 2001.

A $10 million renovation to the Human Ecology facilities was also completed in 2003.

Jeffrey Gurock’s Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports, Journal of Sport History, Fall 2005.

2006--State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Judith Testa’s Sal Maglie: Baseball’s Demon Barber, Journal of Sport History, Fall 2007.

In 2008, Nancy Kleniewski began her tenure as SUNY Oneonta’s seventh president.

The first conference was hosted March 20–21, 2009.

“Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo y sus Visitas Pastorales” (Pastoral Inspections of Saint Toribio of Mogrovejo”, Anuario de Ancash, pp.150-173 Asociación Ancash, 2010.

Tsars, Cossacks, and Nomads: The Formation of a Borderland Culture in Northern Kazakhstan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2011)

Alan Tomlinson’s The Atlas of Sport: Who Plays What, Where, and Why, Journal of Sport History, Fall 2012.

Three founding deans joined the college in summer 2013: Doctor Venkat Sharma, dean of the School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences; Doctor Susan Turell, dean of the School of Social Science; and Doctor David Yen, dean of the School of Economics and Business.

John Rosengren’s Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes, Journal of Sport History, Summer 2014.

“How Did Women Anti-Suffragists in New York Try to Reconcile the Contradictions between Their Strategies and Arguments?” Women and Social Movements Document Project, Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds. (Alexander Street Press), April 2016.

“Mary E. Eato,” “Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet,” “Vida Milholland,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds. (Alexander Street Press), 2017.

2018 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2019)