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The State University of New York College at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo State College or, colloquially, "Geneseo") is a public liberal arts college in Geneseo, New York. It is New York's public honors college and part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The college was founded in 1867 as the "Wadsworth Normal and Training School" before it became part of the new State University of New York system as a state liberal arts college in 1948.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:TOClimit

History

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The initial predecessor to SUNY Geneseo opened in 1867 as the "Wadsworth Normal and Training School" through an act of the New York State Legislature. However, the legislature later changed the new college's name to the Geneseo Normal and Training School before it officially opened on September 13, 1871.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1962, the school adopted its current name, "State University of New York College at Geneseo". Just two years later, in 1964, the school began to offer four-year bachelor's degrees in subjects other than education.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Academics

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Milne Library.

Geneseo is a public liberal arts college with 61 undergraduate majors, 5 master's programs, and 67 interdisciplinary minors. The most popular majors, in descending order, are education, business, the social sciences, biology, and psychology.<ref name="College Search">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Geneseo is part of the New York Space Grant Consortium,<ref name="NY Space Grant">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and is provided grants by NASA to support outer-space related research on-campus..

Administration

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Sturges Hall is Geneseo's landmark building, featuring a clocktower and carillon.

Following the retirement of long-time President Christopher Dahl, Denise Battles became the college's president in July 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Melinda Treadwell assumed the role on October 27, 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rankings and admissions

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Admissions

Geneseo's acceptance rate is 65% as of 2021.<ref>SUNY Geneseo usnews.rankingsandreviews.com Template:Webarchive</ref>

Rankings

Forbes ranked SUNY Geneseo 156th out of the top 500 rated private and public colleges and universities in America for the 2024–25 report. Geneseo was also ranked 69th among public colleges and 66th in the northeast.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Phi Beta Kappa

Geneseo has a chapter of the oldest academic honor society in the United States, Phi Beta Kappa.<ref name="pbk_chapter">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> SUNY's four university centers already had chapters; Geneseo's establishment of a chapter is significant because it was the first (and is currently the only) of New York's thirteen state comprehensive colleges to receive the honor.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

The inaugural ΦΒΚ class was inducted to Geneseo's Alpha-Gamma of New York chapter in April 2004.<ref name="pbk_chapter"/>

Campus

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The Integrated Science Center opened in Fall 2006. In the foreground is the college green.
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President Christopher Dahl cuts the ribbon on Geneseo's 1.7 MeV tandem Pelletron particle accelerator.

At the far end of the South Village Residences, the college maintains the Template:Convert Spencer J. Roemer Arboretum wherein are preserved "more than 70 species of trees, shrubs and wildflowers, including a magnificent group of oak trees which are more than 200 years old, and several black walnut trees estimated to be over 100 years old."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Traditions and campus culture

The Bronze Bear

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The Bronze Bear Fountain is on Main Street.

Just off campus, in the center of Main Street in Geneseo sits the famous Bronze Bear statue. "The Bear" also plays host to any number of spontaneous decorations and pranks throughout the academic year. A story also circulates that one of the wealthy Wadsworth daughters saw the bear fountain in a small town in Germany, fell in love with it, bought it, and sent it back to Geneseo in the early 19th century. This story is unverified, but an excerpt from a history of the family that settled the valley implies that this is not true, and that the fountain was designed and built for its current location: "[Main Street] is still dominated by a drinking fountain for horses dedicated to Mrs. Emmeline Austin Wadsworth. For some obscure reason its designer placed a short pole in its center on top of which sits a cunning little iron bear, who is generally known as 'Aunt Emmeline'".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Student life

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Greek life began at Geneseo in 1871, originally as literary societies. The college hosts several local Greek organizations along with national organizations, as is common in the SUNY schools. As of 2019, about 30% of students were active in either social or professional and service Greek organizations.<ref name="Greek life">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Athletics

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The University athletics team (nicknamed the Knights) are composed of 19 varsity teams (7 men's, 12 women's). All teams compete at the NCAA Division III level and all teams compete in the Empire 8 conference.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In men's ice hockey the Geneseo Knights are known as the "Geneseo Ice Knights".

Notable alumni and faculty

Alumni

Entertainment

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  • Curt Smith (class of 1973), broadcaster and speech writer
  • Brittany Lauda, actress
  • CGP Grey, web personality.<ref name="GGP Grey Tweet Confirming Attendance at SUNY Geneseo">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Academia

Sciences

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  • My Hang V. Huynh (class of 1991) energy researcher<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Government, business, law, activist

  • Liz Allen (class of 2006), Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ray Kotcher, non-executive chairman and advisor to Ketchum Inc.
  • Joseph D. Morelle, U.S. representative for New York's 25th congressional district since 2018. Former New York State Assembly Majority Leader, 2013–2018<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Military

Sports

Faculty

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