WTOP10 Reporter Shanna Fuld interviews 2-time Tony Award winner Brian Ronan.
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2nd Annual Business Symposium Panel Discussion
Official flyer for the event
On October 14, 2016 the Oswego Alumni Association, Inc. of State University of New York at Oswego had its second Annual Business Symposium Panel Discussion.
Questions were based off of topics like diversity, equity, and inclusion in business. Panelists discussed how diversity benefits a work environment, how to enhance inclusion in the workplace, and ways in which the panelists have faced diversity throughout their own careers.
According to recent academic research, diversity in the workplace makes a business stronger and more adaptable than organizations with employees of a single background.
“Programs set platforms for your organization’s brand but you still need to do your part to make it part of the business your diversity brand is just as important,” said Dennis Shuler, executive chairman of Kinetic Consulting and a 1978 Oswego graduate.
“Having a diverse management team within your business will benefit and enhance inclusion in the workplace,” said Melanie Littlejohn, regional executive director of National Grid.
Of 321 large global enterprises—companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue—surveyed in a Forbes study in 2011, 85 percent agreed or strongly agreed that diversity is crucial to improving innovation in the workplace.
“A business can benefit by the creativity aspects that the employees when they work together bring to the table,” said Jennifer Shropshire.
When it came to inclusion Harry Bronson said to take affirmative action should be recognized.
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Oswego Nightly News – Thursday October 4th 2018
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New Lactation Rooms on Campus
by Jamie Aranoff
Oswego, NY- 11 new lactation rooms are being added to the Oswego State campus this semester, providing nursing mothers a place to comfortably and privately pump breast milk for their children.
“It started with a nursing mother who had no official place to pump for her newborn,” Campus Planning Coordinator Linda Paris said.
The 11 lactation rooms are dispersed throughout campus and are located inside certain academic buildings, residence halls and rooms in the Marano Campus Center. “The rooms have been transformed from storage facilities and offer mothers a quiet environment with at least two different types of chairs and work surfaces,” Paris said.
According to the New York State Department of Health, employees have the right to pump breast milk in the workspace, and should have a private place to do so. Prior to this year, there were no official spots on campus for mothers to pump their breast milk.
“Before having these dedicated spaces, you might be lucky enough to have an office where you could pump in, but if not, you might be pumping in your car,” Paris said.
The collaboration of working mothers and the Campus Facility Project was one that took over a year and a half. For working mother and professor Dr. Kristen Eichhorn, the project was more than just getting a lactation sign outside of a storage closet. The initiative was about taking the needs of mothers and working together to be part of something larger.
“Working together to create the spaces for women was more than just that, it was about working with a team to better the community,” Eichhorn said.
Scales Hall, Tyler Hall, and Wilbur Hall will be the next three buildings on campus to receive a lactation room in the coming months.
