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,…
Today the OCC student body includes representatives from dozens of countries. In the early 1960s when the College was in its infancy there were very few international students. Nicolas Habayeb was the first to ever earn a degree from the College. “If OCC didn’t exist when I came to this country I…
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…
The Biden Administration wants to bring more manufacturing back into the United States in an effort to create employment opportunities here at home with outstanding salaries, and make the nation less vulnerable to global events which cause unexpected shocks, such as Covid. With that overarching…
They've done it again!
Onondaga Community College’s chapter of international honor society Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) is ranked third in the world! This is the fourth year in a row OCC's chapter, named Alpha Sigma Zeta, is ranked in the top ten out of nearly 1,300 international chapters…
When Laurie Halse Anderson was 10 years old she had a Wonder Woman poster on the closet door of her bedroom. Today the Onondaga Community College Alumna and New York Times Bestselling Author's latest book is making its worldwide debut. Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is a 208 page…
Austin Schouten remembers the first time he heard about the P-TECH program like it was yesterday. "I was in 8th grade. We had a meeting in the Atrium area at our school with P-TECH people. I thought it was amazing because I always wanted to do something with drafting or electronics. It was…