SUNY Oswego lifts mask mandate effective March 4
By John Custodio SUNY Oswego has ended their mask mandate on March 4 for students and faculty that have completed a full COVID-19 vaccination and booster shot series, in an email sent by Officer in Charge Mary C. Toale. In…
Lockdown drills have been changed by COVID-19
Following the recent Atlanta and Colorado shootings, one SUNY Oswego professor is sharing her insight on how COVID-19 has shaped the way in which lockdown drills are performed. Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut, a criminology professor at SUNY Oswego and a national…
Hope for return to normalcy rises following vaccine
As University Police officers, front-line health services and, most recently, college instructors teaching in-person become eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine, many are reflecting on what this means for the university moving forward. While the duties to ensure everyone’s safety…
SUNY crosses testing milestone; plans to increase weekly testing capacity
The State University of New York has crossed yet another milestone when it comes to COVID-19 testing: over 1 million campus-conducted tests since the start of the academic year. As of Wednesday morning, SUNY had conducted 1,001,444 campus-administered tests. SUNY…
Daily Health Screening used to track students’ health during pandemic
Similar to last semester, SUNY Oswego will use the Daily Health Screening to track students and their potential COVID-19 symptoms or exposures. In an email to students from Provost Scott Furlong and Vice President Jerri Howland, it is a requirement…
Students Face Unprecedented Circumstances in Isolation, Quarantine
With over 150 students in on-campus quarantine and isolation, the care for these students in unprecedented times falls on Oswego State and its faculty and staff. The college is attending to its students, offering daily phone calls, three meals a…
Oswego State Professor Presents on COVID-19
Peter Newell presented Science Today “Biology of COVID-19: Symptoms, Treatments, Vaccines” to Oswego State over Zoom on Sept. 22. Newell is a professor in the department of biological sciences at Oswego State. He calls himself an “armchair immunologist” to not…
Oswego Sub Shop employee tests positive for COVID-19
The Oswego Sub Shop announced in a Facebook post on Thursday afternoon that one of its part-time employees tested positive for COVID-19, as first reported by WTOP-10 TV’s Zac Case on Twitter. Sub Shop owner Bill Greene confirmed that the…
Oswego State to enter 14-day pause of in-person classes due to COVID-19 numbers
With 82 positive COVID-19 cases toward the New York State 100-case threshold in only the first week, Oswego State officials have temporarily paused in-person classes for 14 days, starting Saturday, Sept. 19, according to an email sent from President Deborah…
‘This is our shot’: Oswego State places more restrictions, harsher penalties
After numerous concerns on Saturday about in-person classes at Oswego State despite 124 active cases, President Deborah Stanley has increased the severity of punishments and added several new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 on-campus. With the guidelines set…
