SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE
Yesterday’s Syracuse University Commencement celebration featuring JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as commencement speaker was covered by Bloomberg/BusinessWeek, Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg Television, MSNBC, WSYR-TV, Post-Standard, YNN News, WSTM-TV, and WAER-AM. Syracuse.com has posted a video story on the event. Additional coverage included a Saturday Post-Standard story on SU School of Education graduates facing difficult market conditions.
WSYR-TV on Saturday reported on the fourth SU student to graduate from the Kwasnowski family.
The graduation of the inaugural class of Haudenosaunee Promise Scholars was reported in a Post-Standard article featuring new graduate Joie Hill. SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Regina Jones, assistant director in the Office of Multicultural Affairs, are also quoted in the article.
Proposals from a communications design class for improvements to the Near Westside were featured in a Post-Standard story. Chancellor Cantor; Marilyn Higgins, vice president for community engagement and economic impact; and College of Visual and Performing Arts professors Bill Padgett and Roderick Martinez are mentioned in the story on the students’ Salt District presentation to the Near West Side Initiative Board.
A Sunday Post-Standard story reported on the progress of Connective Corridor projects to better connect SU to downtown’s cultural, civic and business sites.
FACULTY QUOTES
Anthony Rotolo, School of Information Studies social media strategist and assistant professor of practice, is quoted in a New York Times article about Facebook, Google, online publishing and web search engines.
Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer magazine about “Candid Camera” as a precursor to reality TV; and in second Inquirer article about the dominance of reality TV programming on cable and broadcast networks.
—–
To subscribe to SU in the News by daily e-mail, send a message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu with the following in the message body: subscribe SUINTHENEWS
Programs and units across campus have been engaging in assessment activities to support student learning and enhance campus operations. After spending time on campus last spring, the Middle States accreditation site visit team commended the University’s efforts. The result was…
Syracuse University is aware of media reports about students receiving credit for internships with the Syracuse Peace Council, which sponsored a public forum at an off-campus site last month at which inflammatory comments about Israel and Palestinian groups were made…
In an average year, the Enrollment Management Processing office receives about 37,000 undergraduate applications. Graduate applications number around 13,000-15,000. Over a million supporting documents must be processed as well. Each application needs to be assembled and sent to the offices…
This year’s Take Back the Night, an annual march, rally and speak-out event, is scheduled for Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Take Back the Night is observed throughout the world as an event that unites communities…
The University’s upcoming Faculty and Staff Appreciation Week features an afternoon reception with coffee, dessert and relaxing chair massages from licensed massage therapists; several professional development opportunities; and discount tickets to root for the Orange and help set a new…
If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.
