On April 14, award-winning journalist Joan Morgan discussed the portrayal of women in hip-hop music – what she calls "hip-hop feminism" – as the keynote speaker of Geneseo's second Hip-Hop Symposium.

Students Educating About Ableism, the disability advocacy group at Geneseo, is hosting a variety of events April 4-7 to commemorate Disability Awareness Week.

The college held memorial services on Wednesday to honor the life and service of 1st Lt. Mohsin Naqvi, a 2006 Geneseo alumnus killed in action while serving the U.S. Army in Afghanistan on Sept. 17, 2008.

The planned changes in the course registration process will be effective by the end of March, said Associate Dean of the College Savi Iyer. The most significant of the changes will be a limitation on the initial window during which students can add and drop courses.

On Feb. 7, a crowd gathered to attend the college's seventh Phi Beta Kappa lecture, delivered by Richard Nisbett, Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

As public colleges and universities including Geneseo cope with severe budget cuts, they are appealing to alumni for financial donations in increasing numbers.

The SUNY Student Assembly has devised a plan for reform based on discussions from its semiannual conference held this past October and feedback from an online survey of State University of New York students throughout the state.

According the U.S. News & World Report ranking for colleges and universities website, "[Student-to-faculty ratio] does directly measure the ‘commitment to teaching,' which ought to correlate strongly with the level of teaching quality. It counts 20 percent of the ranking."

On Thursday Oct. 28, President Barack Obama and his administration released a broad set of regulations aimed at improving the integrity of the federal student aid program and ensuring appropriate use of taxpayer funds.

Early decision applications have seen a dramatic increase in number as well as success: More people who apply through early decision have been successful in receiving admission, according to an article on Inside Higher Ed.

Geneseo is currently about halfway through the process of obtaining re-accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

According to the Geneseo Police Department, there has been a marked increase in the number of quality of life complaints and arrests from Aug. 23 - Oct. 5 when comparing the reported figures on a year-over-year basis.

Geneseo students past and present attended an array of Homecoming Weekend events in support of the college and in order to show off Geneseo pride.