SUNY Oneonta is among the newest members of the American Talent Initiative (ATI), an alliance of 137 four-year institutions committed to enrolling, supporting, and graduating 50,000 additional talented, lower-income students across high-graduation-rate colleges and universities by 2025.

ATI is co-managed by the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and Ithaka S+R and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Its work to increase access and success is more important now than ever, as talented students from lower-income backgrounds and communities of color continue to face impacts of the pandemic.

In service of this aim, SUNY Oneonta joins its fellow members in pledging to a public, aspirational goal to at least maintain, if not increase, lower-income student enrollment over the next few years. SUNY Oneonta will establish specific goals and strategies to recruit more students from economically diverse backgrounds, increase investments in need-based financial aid, create more equitable student experiences, and, ultimately, minimize equity-based gaps in retention and graduation rates.

SUNY Oneonta represents one of the alliance’s smallest public institutions and is one of just two in the 64-campus State University of New York system to join ATI. The University has a strong track record of recruiting and supporting lower-income students. In 2021-22, 59% of its full-time undergraduate student population received need-based financial aid and 32% of full-time undergraduate students received federal Pell grants. The University’s six-year graduation rate is 77%, well above the national average.

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