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Initial MOOC Offering Results in Positive Participation Outcomes
The first open online course offered at Syracuse University has concluded with positive outcomes for its host, the School of Information Studies (iSchool), and for its hundreds of student participants. In addition, the excitement generated by the February trial is…
Shadow Day Program Celebrates 15 Years
For 15 years University College (UC) carried forward the dream of an SU student who initiated a program as a project in her leadership class. Shadow Day, founded in 1998, was the brainchild of Kamika Dunlap ’99. It fosters community…
#CUSEtoATL: Capturing the Spirit of Orange Nation
The Orange Nation is not so much a place, as a state of mind. You can be anywhere in the country—or the world—and still be in the heart of the Orange Nation. So, as the men’s basketball team prepares for…
BBI Receives $100,000 Gift to Technology Program for Children with Disabilities
Barb and Greg G’91 Tresness have announced a commitment of $100,000 to the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University. The donation will fund the creation of Communication Hope through Assistive Technology (CHAT), a program to assist youth with disabilities…
SU Humanities Center Ends Semester with Back-to-Back Programming
Topics include transgenerational trauma, the Nuremberg Trial, Afro-Brazilian politics The Syracuse University Humanities Center concludes its spring schedule—and fifth anniversary—with a series of back-to-back events. They include a Humanities Faculty Fellow Lecture by Meera Lee titled “Transgenerational Trauma, Phantom Emotion”…
New Course Will Help Students Build Concrete Skills in Community Organizing
A new course in the fall 2013 semester will teach students key skills of organizing by leading a community engagement project on campus. “Community Organizing: People, Power and Change” (SWK 400/CFE 400) will meet on Wednesdays from 2:15-5 p.m., and…
Have No Idea Where to Go with Your Idea? Come to Emerging Talk!
It takes an entrepreneurial ecosystem to help college students turn an idea into a venture. And plenty of students are taking on the challenge of executing their ideas. Where do you find these students? How do these students meet others…
IDEA and eMinutes Partner to Help Student Entrepreneurs Incorporate
No other law firm in history has voluntarily waived $500,000 in legal fees and absorbed $100,000 in expenses simply to help 500 first-time entrepreneurs incorporate; but that’s exactly how Jeff Unger, Los Angeles-based attorney and founder of eMinutes, a corporate…
VPA Students Named Semi-Finalists in Design Museum Boston Street Seats Challenge
A bench design by two second-year industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts was named one of 20 semi-finalist winners in Design Museum Boston’s Street Seats International Design Challenge. Ryan Pierson and Sally Zheng’s…
Pam Peter named Director of the Office of Judicial Affairs
The Division of Student Affairs has announced the appointment of Pam Peter as director of the Office of Judicial Affairs, effective April 1. Peter has been serving as interim director since August 2012, and joined the office in January 2011…