EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DENNIS CRAIG
MAN of THE HOUR
Can Hero Of Purchase
Save SUNY Oneonta?
By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – For SUNY Oneonta’s interim President Dennis Craig, 55, it’s all about how you react to a crisis.
“In tough incidents, sometimes you’re more defined by your response than by the incident itself,” he said, whether cheating, an instance of bias, a suicide, even a murder.
When that happens, “I’m all about transparency and giving people more information, and letting them decide what they need to know,” he said in his first local interview since arriving on campus Thursday, Oct. 15.
SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras picked Craig to succeed Barbara Jean Morris, who resigned after COVID-19 raged out of control at the local campus, infecting more than 700 students, more than on any campus in the nation.
