The Division of Finance & Administration

Vice President's Welcome
Leif S. Hartmark

The Division of Finance and Administration includes a number of administrative offices providing a wide array of services and support to the College community.

Our mission is to “provide services that advance the overall College mission to foster an individual student’s intellectual, personal, and civic development.”

Our primary goal is to provide quality service; whether it’s a student worker far from home that can’t navigate a tax form, an employee with questions on health benefits, a department chair trying to purchase goods and services, a faculty member looking to get reimbursed for travel, or ongoing maintenance, repair and renovations of our beautiful campus facilities and grounds. We also support the president and senior campus leadership in strategic planning and resource management.

The Division is organized into the following four major areas:  Finance, Administrative Services and Technology, Employee Services, and Facilities and Safety. In addition, the division is responsible for Research Foundation Operations, auxiliary services via OAS, the financial management for the College Foundation and Alumni Association, and the SICAS Center, a SUNY-wide information systems support center located on the Oneonta campus.

Leif Hartmark has been serving as Vice President for Finance and Administration at the College at Oneonta since 1988. For the previous ten years he served as Assistant to the President for Planning at the University at Albany. He also served on the legislative fiscal staffs in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Albany, and a bachelor’s degree from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

As Vice President, he has played a leadership role in transforming the College, including the renovation and upgrading of the campus’ facilities, improved budgeting and administrative services, developing the technology infrastructure, dramatic improvements in dining services and residential facilities, the growth of the College Foundation from $2 million to over $30 million, and establishing a SUNY-wide SICAS Center at Oneonta.

Leif has published on planning and budgeting in higher education and authored numerous unpublished papers and reports on higher education management and policy. He has also been active in a number of SUNY-wide committees and task forces, and is past president of the SUNY Business Officers Association who named him Business Officer of the Year in 2007.

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