DENNIS CRAIG

DENNIS CRAIG has been appointed to serve as the new acting president for SUNY Oneonta. He recently led SUNY Purchase College’s successful fall reopening and handled the campus’s response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring as interim president. While interim president for SUNY Purchase, he helped launch pooled-surveillance testing on Aug. 27. His leadership at SUNY Purchase in managing the safe reopening of the campus has served as a model for other campuses across the SUNY system. A search for a permanent president for SUNY Oneonta is expected to begin soon. Craig serves as VP for student affairs and enrollment management, a role he will return to after a search is conducted for SUNY Oneonta’s next president. He joined SUNY Purchase in 2006 as the VP for admissions and associate provost for enrollment. Craig also previously served as university director of admissions at Montclair State University for five years. He also served as director of admissions at the Culinary Institute of America, where he directed all aspects of pre-enrollment programs and events for prospective students, and managed a staff responsible for national recruitment, enrollment marketing, new-student orientation, telemarketing, and database management. Craig holds a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from SUNY Plattsburgh and a master’s degree in history from Fairleigh Dickinson University.