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For decades, the cement wall at the intersection of West and Center streets has served as a public billboard of sorts, where city residents and students from ������̳ and Hartwick College take turns advertising events and sharing messages by painting words across the chipping, colorful surface.

On Monday, Nov. 16, ������̳’s COVID Response Team shared its Draft Re-opening Plan: Spring 2021 and two upcoming virtual town halls to discuss the plan. The COVID Response Team also shared a Retrospective on Fall 2020. One change in the college’s COVID-19 response was implemented Nov. 16. Acting President Dennis Craig announced the appointment of Dr. Franklin Chambers to the newly created position of vice president for external affairs.

In response to country-wide protests this summer regarding inequality, injustice and police brutality, ������̳ has created “The UPD and the Oneonta College Community Task Force” to examine University Police practices and review police-community relations on campus.

State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras today announced that Dennis Craig will serve as the new Acting President for ������̳. Chancellor Malatras made the announcement today from the ������̳ campus, joined by Acting President Craig, the ������̳ College Council, as well as student, faculty and local government leaders. Acting President Craig recently led SUNY Purchase College’s successful fall reopening and handled the campus’s response to the first wave of the pandemic last spring as interim president. The SUNY Board of Trustees approved the appointment today and it is effective immediately.

Dr. Bernadette Tiapo has been named chief diversity officer at ������̳. Her appointment will begin Sept. 1. Dr. Tiapo comes to the college from SUNY Potsdam, where she has been associate vice president and chief diversity officer since 2016.