The Rochester Business Journal recently revealed its annual , a list of 100 movers and shakers in the Greater Rochester area. President has made the list each year since its inception. 

Last week, SUNY’s Board of Trustees announced details regarding New York’s investment in public higher education provided by the 2024–25 New York State budget. Geneseo is slated to receive an increase of about $1.6 million in ongoing State support. Including the increase the campus received this year, the campus has received nearly $4.2 million in State support over the past two years.

"We are deeply grateful to Governor Hochul, our elected officials, and Chancellor King for their dedication and support of SUNY," said ºÚÁÏÍø President Denise A. Battles. "At Geneseo, we punch above our weight and deliver strong outcomes for our students, and this additional funding helps us to build on our efforts to improve student success."

The increase in operating aid will help offset annual cost increases, such as the well-deserved negotiated salary increases for faculty and staff and additional rising costs due to inflation and other factors.

ºÚÁÏÍø is also benefiting from one-time Transformational Investment Funding (2023-24), which is helping to support multicultural student success, additional scholarships and increased tutoring services, recruitment, business career counseling, and pre-health advisement, among other initiatives.

The State is also providing ongoing support for specific initiatives and activities, including: 

• additional student internship experiences to improve student success 
• faculty and student research
• students with disabilities
• student mental health
• student food insecurity
• reduction of mandatory fees for graduate student workers

The State’s aggregate investments bolster Geneseo’s status as New York’s public honors college.

The "announcement marks a historic investment in our nation-leading statewide public higher education system and will inject critical funding to support our students and faculty," said SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. "Governor Hochul and the State Legislature’s commitment to public higher education is clear in this year’s budget."

President Denise Battles joined Governor Kathy Hochul for dinner on April 23 with fellow women serving as presidents of higher education institutions in New York State. There, she participated in a conversation covering critical topics ranging from enrollment and retention to artificial intelligence and workforce development.

Denise A. Battles, PhD, president of ºÚÁÏÍø, was the featured speaker at UCLA’s on February 21. Her talk was titled “The Case for Public Higher Education: A Personal Perspective on a Public Good.â€�

Geneseo campus leaders joined more than 100 SUNY leaders and researchers in Washington, DC, on September 20–21 to advocate for new federal research and operational support for SUNY campuses, elevate SUNY’s stature, and strengthen relationships with DC decision-makers.

Geneseo was represented at SUNY Day DC by Daniel Blankenship, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Paul Morrell, assistant vice president for finance and business development and director of the Small Business Development Center. Also in attendance were Joe Morelle ’86, US representative for New York’s 25th district, and Alexander Ruiz ’24, a Geneseo political science major and SUNY Student Assembly president.

SUNY Day DC has been held annually (with a hiatus during the pandemic) since the early 2010s. The event convenes SUNY leaders and researchers from across the system in DC to learn about new funding opportunities and to advocate SUNY priorities directly to White House, Congress, and agency decision-makers.