Creative Arts, School of Liberal Arts, Academics

Designing a New Major

The Siena BA in Visual Art and Design, approved this week by the New York State Education Department, will invite students to exercise imaginative thinking, engage in critical discourse, and learn the technical skills needed to support their passion for the arts.
Campus Events

Siena's Summer Projects

Summertime is the ideal time for the College to dig, repair, and install. Disruption is kept to a minimum when students are away, so Facilities has started to tackle its list of summer time projects. The ambitious to-do list includes...

Meaningful Change Starts Here

Siena’s annual Engage for Change regional conference connects local community engagement practitioners, including faculty, students, and community organizations, to share best practices across institutions and methods for advancing their work in the Capital Region.

Freedom Day at Siena

The day before U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth a new national holiday, the Siena community hosted the second part of its own inaugural Juneteenth observation.
Admissions

7 things a college’s social media can tell you

We all know real life is different from what it looks like on Facebook or Twitter. But, when it comes to colleges and social media, you can gain a great deal of insight about an institution—and what it might be like to be a student there—by spending some time clicking through their social media accounts.

Take your list of top schools and see what platforms they have accounts on, then log on and consider these seven things a college’s social media can tell you:

More Tools for the Pedagogical Toolbox

Most students and faculty are eager to get back to in-person classroom and lab work now that colleges are opening up post-pandemic. However, let’s not throw the pedagogical baby out with the bathwater. Some of the technology that was used to teach remotely will still prove very useful going forward even when we’re all back on campus.
Academics, School of Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Every Student Has a Story: Nanea Perkins '22

Nanea Perkins ’22 is building the foundation for a career that will help protect the natural beauty of her home state of Hawai’i.
Academics, School of Business, Marketing, Management

Congratulations, You're Hired!

If Lily Belber '21 is being completely honest, she didn't always give her undivided attention during lectures this spring. To her credit, she rarely missed a class over Zoom, but she was more than occasionally multi-tasking...

Phishing and Catching with Bait

We’ve all heard of phishing scams, but how many of us are truly aware enough to resist one? Rachel Cleary ’21 wanted to find out. The recent computer science graduate took an Intro to Cybersecurity course at Siena and knew she had found her calling. She signed up for all the classes she could on the topic, but wanted to take her studies even further so she could better leverage herself for the job market.