• Ranked by U.S. News and World Report among "Top Up-and-Coming Colleges" in "America's Best Colleges 2010" and by Princeton Review among “The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2010 Edition."

• Oswego earned approval for the SUNY system's first degree in risk management and insurance in 2009.

• SUNY Oswego became the first public college in New York to offer a software engineering degree in fall 2008.

• Inspiring Horizons: The Campaign for Oswego exceeded its $23 million goal by hundreds of thousands of dollars as it concluded its six-year run on June 30, 2008, with an outpouring of support from alumni and others.

• Ranked by U.S. News and World Report among "America's Best Colleges 2009" and by Princeton Review among “The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2009 Edition."

• New School of Communication, Media and the Arts launched in spring 2008

• Oswego's first study-abroad program in Africa, a course in Benin that continues an ongoing educational exchange with the developing nation

• Opening of the entire Campus Center complex in fall 2007, connecting the new Campus Center with the renovated Poucher Hall; dedicated with a live NBC Today Show broadcast by Oswego alumnus Al Roker

• Reopening of the fully renovated Riggs Hall residence hall and Lakeside Dining Center in fall 2007

• National recognition on the Presidential Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2006-07, the second consecutive year

• NCAA Division III men's ice hockey championship in spring 2007

• New bachelor's degree programs in cinema studies and creative writing (formerly a popular flavor of the English major for 40 years) approved in fall 2006

• New combined bachelor's and MBA degrees in psychology and in human-computer interaction

• First comprehensive development campaign Inspiring Horizons: The Campaign for Oswego achieved its 2007 goal of $17 million in October 2006, including a $1 million gift from an alumna that will establish the college's first endowed professorship

• Opening of the new 111,492-square-foot Campus Center in fall 2006 — SUNY Oswego's first new building in 35 years and a new hub of students' lives in the heart of campus. Commencement in May 2007 was held in the center's arena and convocation hall for the first time.

• Named to the top 50 of master's colleges whose baccalaureate graduates earned research doctorates in the past decade, in 2006

• Historic Sheldon Hall reopened in spring 2006 to host classes for the first time in more than 20 years.

• Poucher Hall came back on line in spring 2006 after extensive renovations as a humanities center with award-winning aesthetics.

On the Horizon

• New science facilities with the renovation of and major additions to Piez Hall amounting to more than $100 million in capital work, which begins in 2010

• A Center for Energy Education and Economic Solutions

• A townhouse village on campus to house 350 juniors and seniors to open in fall 2010