Kelly Rambo named to dean’s list at SUNY Cortland

Kelly Rambo of Calverton, a 2010 graduate of Riverhead High School, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2010 semester at the State University of New York College at Cortland.  Kelly is majoring in early childhood education and Spanish.

She is the daughter of Wayne and Patricia Rambo of Calverton.

Located atop one of the rolling hills in central New York’s “City of Seven Valleys,” the State University of New York College at Cortland was founded in 1868 as the Cortland Normal School. Among its earliest students is inventor and industrialist Elmer A. Sperry of Sperry-Rand Corp. fame. The original campus, located in downtown Cortland, was destroyed by a fire in 1919. The present campus opened in 1923.

Over the decades, the campus expanded and in 1941, by an act of the legislature and the Board of Regents, the institution officially became a four-year college providing courses leading to the bachelor’s degree. In 1948, Cortland became a founding member of the State University of New York.

SUNY Cortland enrolls more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 1,000 graduate students, in 28 academic departments offering 61 undergraduate majors and 33 graduate majors.

For a fourth consecutive year, SUNY Cortland was ranked byKiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine among its 100 Best Values in Public Colleges, a list of national institutions that combine “outstanding economic value with top-notch education.”