<p>Geneseo’s Marks of Distinction</p>
<p>National Recognition
U.S. News and World Report has ranked Geneseo 1st or 2nd in the “Top Public University-Master’s” category every year since 1998 in its “America’s Best Colleges” guide.
In 2012, U.S. News and World Report ranked Geneseo as the top “Up-and-Coming” and “Best Undergraduate Teaching” regional university in the north.
Forbes magazine listed Geneseo as one of the Top 100 Best Buy Colleges for 2011.
In 2012, Princeton Review again included Geneseo on its list of “The Best 376 Colleges” for undergraduate education. The publisher writes, “We commend Geneseo for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for selection of schools.”
The Washington Monthly, which ranks colleges on how much social mobility, research, and public service they foster, placed Geneseo in the top 10 nationally in the master’s category in 2010.
The Fiske Guide to Colleges has consistently rated Geneseo a “Best Buy” based on “quality of academic offerings in relation to cost.”</p>
<p>Academic Quality
Geneseo is one of only 280 college and universities in the country with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most distinguished student honor society in the country.
Geneseo students have received 15 prestigious Goldwater Scholarships.
Geneseo is among the nation’s top producers of bachelor’s degrees in physics according to the American Institute of Physics, and the only Rochester-area college to house a particle accelerator for research applications.
Over 40 percent of Geneseo’s students – twice the national average – pursue full-time graduate study immediately after graduation.
In Learning Initiatives in the Residential Setting (2008), published by the National Resource Center for First Year Experience & Students in Transition, Geneseo is cited for its model programs in residentially-based student learning.
Three of Geneseo’s students have received highly competitive U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarships in the last two years, two in Turkish and one in Russian. The scholarships offer them intensive summer programs abroad.</p>
<p>Faculty and Staff
Geneseo’s current faculty have won 13 national awards for teaching excellence, including two Haimo Distinguished Teaching Awards from the Mathematical Association of America; the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award; the Society for the Psychology of Women’s Heritage Award for Contributions to the Teaching of Psychology; both winners of the inaugural CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies; and a finalist for the national Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers, among others. Other teaching awards include two CASE State Professors of the Year for New York.
Vice President Robert Bonfiglio received the 2009 Ted K. Miller Achievement of Excellence Award from the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education.
Ed Rivenburgh, founder and director the Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project, received the 2011 Virginia Boucher /OCLC Distinguished ILL Library Award for “outstanding professional achievement, leadership and significant contributions to the fields of interlibrary loan and document delivery.” The IDS Project is a cooperative that has grown to 65 libraries which are fundamentally changing their interlibrary loan processing and resource sharing for the benefit of the end-user.
Two Milne librarians received the 2011 Innovation Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries for their LILAC (Library Instruction Leadership Academy), a collaborative professional development project for librarians in K-12, community college, and college/university libraries. </p>
<p>Excellence in Community Service
Geneseo has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll every year since the honor roll began in 2006.
Geneseo was ranked 9th in the nation in 2010 for the number of students and alumni participating in Student Conservation Association internships and service opportunities.
Geneseo’s faculty, staff, students, and alumni collaborate with community members and area churches in the Livingston CARES program, which is committed to a decade of Hurricane Katrina-related relief. Since 2006, nearly 600 volunteers have gone on 22 work trips to Biloxi, MS. Livingston CARES is 1 of 9 colleges in the nation to have received the Katrina Compassion Award from the U.S. President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
Over their college careers, the Geneseo student body contributes over 60,000 hours of community service work.
For 4 consecutive years from 2006-09, Geneseo’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics won the National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators/Jostens Community Service Award for its ongoing community service activities.</p>
<p>Curricular and Co-curricular Integration
Geneseo supports over 200 student organizations with over 3,000 members.
Geneseo faculty and students produce 10 theater productions annually, support 12 musical performance groups and 2 dance troupes, and host 4 art galleries.
The Geneseo Opportunities for Leadership Development (GOLD) program engages over 4,500 students and has won two national awards since 2002.
The College’s bystander intervention training program received the 2010 “Collaborative Program of the Year Award” from the Association of College Unions International.
The SUNY Council of Chief Student Affairs Officers named Geneseo’s You Belong program for transfer students as one of the 2010 SUNY Outstanding Student Affairs Programs.
Geneseo’s chapter of Sigma Kappa Sorority was awarded the 3-Star Standards of Excellence, Sigma Kappa Achievement Award and Sisterhood Recognition Award at the 2010 national convention…</p>
<p>Scholar Athletes
In 2010-2011, Geneseo Knights won six SUNYAC championships and five coaches were honored with SUNYAC Coach of the Year awards.
Geneseo has produced 31 percent of the SUNYAC Scholar-Athletes since this award was established in 2003-04. In 2010-2011, Geneseo student-athletes garnered 44 percent (8 out of 18) of the awards in sports in which the College competes.
Seven of Geneseo’s intercollegiate teams were named national All-Academic teams in 2010-2011.
Fourteen Geneseo student-athletes earned 15 All-America awards in 2010-2011.
Geneseo men’s swimming and diving team has won 18 of the last 22 SUNYAC titles, including 13 in a row, while the women’s swimming and diving team has captured 19 of the previous 22 SUNYAC championships.
The Blue Knights have claimed 18 of the last 22 SUNYAC championships in women’s and men’s cross-country.
In 2010, for the third consecutive year, Geneseo’s women’s soccer team was awarded the Team Ethics Award by the National Soccer Coaches Association for demonstrating high levels of sportsmanship.</p>
<p>Quality of Facilities and Technology
Geneseo’s $53 million Integrated Science Center (ISC) earned a Gold Award for Excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies.
The design of Seneca residence hall, an Energy Star-qualified facility opened in 2009, earned a Certificate of Achievement by the American Institute of Architects.
Geneseo received the 2010 Environmental Leadership Award from The Rochester Business Journal for resource reduction.
Putnam residence hall earned the 2004 Design for Excellence Award by the Rochester Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.</p>
<p>Internationalization
Geneseo has partnership agreements to enhance student exchange and study with higher education institutions in 22 countries, included dual-diploma degree programs with institutions in Mexico, Turkey, Jamaica, and Russia.
Over 16 Geneseo faculty members have been Fulbright Scholars at universities around the world.
Over 300 Geneseo students study outside the U.S. each year.
Through a partnership with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the Village of HOPE in Ghana, Shear School of Education majors may opt to fulfill part of their student teaching requirement in public schools in Ghana.
Geneseo received one of four state awards from the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) program recognizing excellence in academic service learning, for its initiative in Nicaragua called “For the Future Smiles of El Sauce.”</p>