SU in the News: Thursday, July 15, 2010

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE

The Wall Street Journal profiled the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program at the Whitman School of Management.

The Crime Report reported on the recent news released by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) that U.S. federal criminal immigration prosecutions by the two largest investigative agencies within the Department of Homeland Security have increased to levels seen during the last months of the Bush administration.

Contra Costa Times and the Post-Standard reported on Deborah Freund, distinguished professor of public administration and economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, being named the next president of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.

The Post-Standard reported the Julliard’s Ralph Zito has been named chair of the Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The Post-Standard briefly reported on the voting for the new logo for the La Casita Cultural Center; logos were designed by Say Yes to Education campers.

FACULTY QUOTES

The Sacramento Bee quoted Len Burman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs in the Maxwell School, on the possible extension of tax cuts for the wealthy.

The Washington Post published a “Political Bookworm” guest blog by Keith Bybee, the Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ‘72 Judiciary Studies Professor at the College of Law and director of the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media, about the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s announcement of a one week delay before its vote on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

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