Lindsay King honored at SUNY Oswego convocation

2014 May 6

Lindsay C. King of Troy was honored at SUNY Oswego's recent Honors Convocation, where she received the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

King is a member of the class of 2014 studying global and international studies and communication studies at Oswego. She is the daughter of Elizabeth and Joseph King of Troy.

The formal ceremony, complete with a procession of faculty and college officers in full academic regalia, is sponsored each spring at Oswego by Vega, the women's honor society.

The audience included faculty, staff, students and students' family members. SUNY Oswego honored more than 100 students at the ceremony.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2014, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2014 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges," as well as its 2014 list of "best value" colleges and universities nationally.

A 153-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.