Company Profile
SUNY Oneonta
Company Overview
Located in the Leatherstocking Region of New York State, SUNY Oneonta is a mid-size, public, liberal arts and sciences college with a pre-professional focus. The College enrolls approximately 6,000 students in a wide variety of bachelor's degree programs and a number of graduate certificates and degrees.
Established as a normal school in 1889, the College became a founding member of the State University of New York in 1948. Today, SUNY Oneonta is one of the region's largest employers with an annual operating budget of $118 million. In support of its workforce, SUNY Oneonta offers health insurance, dental insurance, vision care, retirement programs, tax-deferred annuities, group long-term disability insurance, life insurance and educational assistance to faculty and staff members.
Over half of SUNY Oneonta's 6,000 students live on its main campus within the City of Oneonta, which the Matador Network recognized in 2015 as one of the "20 Coolest Towns in the U.S." The College also operates College Camp, a 276-acre park-like area just outside Oneonta, and the Biological Field Station/Cooperstown Graduate Program facility on Otsego Lake in nearby Cooperstown.
Student centeredness became the focus of the SUNY Oneonta's mission in 2010. This led to greater investment in instruction and provided the framework for a philanthropic campaign that increased student scholarships, research and travel, and pushed the College's endowment past $50 million.
The College welcomed its eighth president, Barbara Jean Morris, in July 2018.
SUNY Oneonta consistently ranks among the top schools nationally, sitting at #13 on the 2018 list of "Top Public Regional Universities" in the North by U.S. News & World Report and #153 in the Northeast on the 2017 Forbes magazine list of "America's Top Colleges." The College received INSIGHT magazine's Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award in 2017 and 2014 and accepted an invitation to join the Colleges of Distinction in 2015.
Company History
Established as a normal school in 1889, SUNY Oneonta joined the State University of New York system as a founding member in 1948. Starting in the mid 1960s and continuing through the early 1970s, the campus expanded substantially in size and enrollment. In the coming years, a strategic enrollment management plan under development now will guide modest growth, and complement the next iteration of the strategic plan, which will we implemented beginning in the fall of 2015.
Benefits
SUNY Oneonta is the largest employer in Oneonta, a city of 14,000 situated in central New York on the Susquehanna River among the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. In support of its workforce, SUNY Oneonta offers health insurance, dental insurance, vision care, retirement programs, tax-deferred annuities, group long-term disability insurance, life insurance and educational assistance to faculty and staff members.