Onondaga Community College representatives spent the first Saturday in May getting young students excited about hands-on learning at Maker Faire Syracuse!
More than a dozen students, faculty, and staff from OCC's School of Technology,…
Cameron and Colin Pare were preparing for the spring semester at Onondaga Community College when the infamous events of January 6 happened. As the United States Capitol was being stormed the Pare's knew their lives were about to change. "I was watching the news and I was about 80% sure…
Luke Bunner was more than 4,000 miles away from the World Trade Center in New York City when the towers were attacked by terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001. Like so many, he has vivid memories of the day. Bunner was a member of the United States Army stationed in Anchorage…
Onondaga Community College will begin a nationwide search for its next President. Dr. Casey Crabill will retire following the 2021-2022 academic year after nine years on campus. She confirmed her decision to retire during today's Board of Trustees meeting. Also today, the Board voted to hire the…
Onondaga Community College's SRC Arena was briefly transformed into a Federal Courtroom November 9 when it hosted a Naturalization ceremony. Nearly 100 candidates for citizenship were sworn-in as American citizens by U.S. District Court Judge David E. Peebles.
The new citizens immigrated…
Chuck Wilbur rarely talks about his own achievements, but they speak loudly for him. In 17 seasons as Head Coach of Onondaga Community College's Men's Lacrosse team, Wilbur led the Lazers to 11 National Championships, posted an overall record of 266 wins and just 15 losses, and from 2010 to 2016…
Onondaga Community College's Fire Protection Technology degree program was just awarded reaccreditation by the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC). This prestigious and exclusive designation provides students the opportunity to be internationally certified as firefighters,…
Social media has become one of the biggest, if not the biggest way, to send out messages to large audiences and communicate with them. Onondaga Community College has five social media channels; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tok Tok, and You Tube. Knowing how to use each platform properly…
The most popular freshman on campus isn’t a star athlete or someone with movie star good looks. It’s the Learning Center, the new home for OCC’s tutoring services. The Learning Center is located in the Gordon Student Center next to the cafeteria. It’s filled with spaces for students and tutors to…
Onondaga Community College today received a gift of $1 million dollars from Eric Allyn in honor of his wife, Meg O'Connell, who is OCC's former Interim President and Chair of the Board of Trustees. The money will be used for the creation of the "Meg O'Connell Center for Social Justice and…
Onondaga Community College has been a central figure in the life of Steve Schill '78 and three generations of his family. His mother, Peg Schill, worked at OCC for 33 years. Steve earned an Electrical Engineering degree here in 1978. His wife Kathleen graduated with a Business Administration…
Buffy Quinn's professional life in both the private and public sector has been centered around her love of map making, and now she's sharing her passion on a national stage. Quinn is known on the Onondaga Community College campus as Assistant Dean of Natural & Applied Sciences. On July…