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Fredonia students’ safer reopening plan endorsed by University Senate, has yet to be enforced

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesKATIE LENDA Staff Writer On July 1, SUNY Fredonia released a reopening plan for students, faculty and staff returning to campus this upcoming fall semester. Classes will be quite different from previous semesters with precautions such as social distancing, limited capacity in buildings and mandated face coverings being put into......
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SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson to resign

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesJAMES MEAD Managing Editor [UPDATE 06/16/2020, 6:42 p.m.: The next SUNY Board of Trustees meeting has been postponed to June 29, 2020] On Tuesday, June 2, the Times Union obtained an unsigned letter of resignation from Kristina Johnson, the current SUNY chancellor, addressed to SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Dr.......
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Fredonia University Senate Chair addresses presidential search status

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesJESSICA MEDITZ Editor in Chief Among the other uncertainties of today’s climate, many of Fredonia’s campus and community members might be wondering: “What’s going on with the presidential search?” It’s a question that’s been buzzing since the retirement of Fredonia’s former president, Virginia Horvath, and the appointment of interim president,......
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SUNY Fredonia responds to scholarship reduction rumors

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesJAMES MEAD Web Editor If you’ve been following Fredonia’s response to COVID-19, you’ve likely heard rumors about how budget cuts may affect scholarships. On May 6, a Fredonia student posted on Facebook that he had been contacted by Student Accounts and informed that his Fredonia-granted scholarships for this semester, totaling......
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Fredonia Student Association responds to COVID-19

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesSAMUEL LEWANDOWSKI Special to The Leader Despite COVID-19, the Fredonia Student Association Office remains in operation. According to their general manager/accountant, Vince Gugino, the Student Association is operating with staff and only coming to the office when necessary.   “The student executives are only available through email for obvious reasons,” said......
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Life & Arts

Highlighting Fredonia’s all-black student government

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 5 minutesALYSSA BUMP Assistant Life & Arts Editor Fredonia is a predominantly white institution. According to statistics from Fredonia’s website, it’s a 70 percent white institution; only 9 percent of students are African-American.  With that being said, where can black students find representation? For the first time in Fredonia history, the......
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The Trident digitized: Annual magazine adjusts for the pandemic

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesMARCIA HUNT Special to The Leader March 11 was supposed to be an exciting day for The Trident staff members — it was the deadline for submissions to the literary magazine, which would bring them one step closer to its annual publication. That morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the sudden......
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