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Vice President for Finance and Administration Michael Kelly resigns

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DAN QUAGLIANA News Editor ROSEMARIE RAPISARDA Staff Writer On March 13, SUNY Fredonia’s Vice President for Finance and Administration Michael Kelly resigned from his position at the University. “Today [March 13], I had a conversation about the future with Mr. Michael Kelly, [v]ice [p]resident for Finance and Administration, and I......
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Rachel Kerr wins SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching

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ROSEMARIE RAPISARDA Staff Writer Inspirational, passionate, supportive, kind-hearted, enthusiastic, eccentric, funny, honest and fashionable. These are some words from a few former and current students that they used to describe Rachel Kerr, an adjunct communications lecturer. In early March, Kerr won the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching.......
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Faculty responds to administration officially cutting 13 programs

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DAN QUAGLIANA News Editor On March 18 at 8:43 p.m., Fredonia’s Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. David Starrett sent out an email to all students, faculty and staff, announcing that the 13 majors that were announced to be considered for discontinuation in December have officially been discontinued. “Good evening,”......
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University Senate holds special meeting discussing potential program cuts

Sierra Mills
SIERRA MILLS Chief Copy Editor The proposed program cuts have been plaguing the minds of students, faculty and staff since their announcement, with questions having seemingly gone unanswered and many discussions and data being hidden from the public.  “It’s been horrific. We knew it was coming. You know, we’ve seen......
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Students for Fredonia holds protest in Barker Commons

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ABIGAIL JACOBSON Asst. News Editor DAN QUAGLIANA News Editor Most students remember last semester ending with a bang — specifically, with a protest that aimed to raise awareness and concerns about the proposed program cuts that had just been announced by Fredonia President Stephen Kolison.  The group that organized that......
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Gallery: Fredonia students and faculty hold protest against program cuts

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SUNY Fredonia students and faculty/staff alike joined forces in a protest this afternoon as a result of proposed program cuts announced yesterday during a “special campus meeting.” The proposed cuts include several arts and humanities programs, including photography, sculpture, philosophy, sociology, Spanish and early childhood education (birth-2), among several other......
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Featured SUNY Fredonia President Stephen Kolison announces potential program cuts at SUNY Fredonia

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THE LEADER STAFF UPDATE 12/8/23, 11:52 a.m.: UPDATE 12/7/23, 11:32 p.m.: UPDATE 12/6/23, 9:21 p.m.: UPDATE 12/6/23, 5:51 p.m.: SUNY Fredonia President Stephen Kolison hosted a “special campus meeting” today, Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 2:30 p.m.  This meeting was geared towards faculty and staff, as an email was not shared......
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The silence between, before and after: A concert analysis

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LUKE VILLAVICENCIO Special to The Leader  “Music is the silence between the notes.”          – Claude Debussy Rosch Recital Hall, Oct. 22—You could hear a pin drop.  The crowd is quiet and the Ekstasis Duo, made up of Fredonia’s own Dr. Natasha Farny (cello) and Dr. Eliran Avni (piano), has taken......
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Kershnar v. Kolison et al.: Free speech versus campus safety

Chloe Kowalyk
CHLOE KOWALYK Editor in Chief  It has been nearly 500 days since SUNY Fredonia Professor Stephen Kershnar was removed from campus after a video surfaced of him discussing morality issues regarding adult-child sex on X (formerly Twitter).  Now, Kershnar is suing Fredonia President Stephen Kolison and Executive Vice President and......

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