Original sentence: Geneseo is classified as a four-year public liberal arts college and is colloquially referred to by New Yorkers as the "Harvard on the Hill" because of its rigorous academic curriculum and its location atop a promontory on the western edge of the Finger Lakes region
Edited sentence: Geneseo is classified as a four-year public liberal arts college and is colloquially referred to by New Yorkers as the "Ivy of the SUNYs" or "Harvard on the Hill" because of its rigorous academic curriculum and its location atop a promontory on the western edge of the Finger Lakes region