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Arts & Culture

Community Folk Art Center Offers Exhibition, Music, Film in Celebration of Black History Month

Tuesday, February 14, 2017, By News Staff

The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), a unit of Syracuse University’s Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, is celebrating Black History Month with an array of cultural programming open to the Syracuse University and…

Health & Society

Black History Month Celebration Begins Wednesday

Tuesday, January 31, 2017, By Shannon Andre

Syracuse University’s annual Black History Month celebration begins Wednesday, Feb. 1, with a kickoff event from 7-9 p.m. in the Schine Student Center Jabberwocky Café. The event will feature a soul food dinner provided through a collaboration between the Office…

Health & Society

Africa Initiative Hosts Kwame Dixon Talk, Book Signing

Tuesday, January 31, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

Kwame Dixon, assistant professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss Afro-Brazil and the global struggle for human rights from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 2, in 319 Sims Hall. The event, “The Afro-Brazilian Experience…

Campus & Community

Middle States Self-Study Asks: Are We Doing What We Say We Do?

Tuesday, January 24, 2017, By Carol Boll

For the past four months, more than 140 members of Syracuse University’s faculty, staff, and student body have been exhaustively scrutinizing nearly every aspect of University programs, operations and services to determine how well it meets the standards and requirements…

Campus & Community

Middle States Steering Committee Launches Blog

Friday, January 6, 2017, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University’s Middle States Reaccreditation Steering Committee has launched a blog to keep the campus community informed on the progress of the reaccreditation process now underway. The blog, which can be accessed via the University’s Middle States website at middlestates.syr.edu,…

Campus & Community

English Department Establishes Memorial Fellowship

Monday, December 5, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Joseph Hughes liked big words—so much so that his brother often consulted a dictionary while talking to him. “Joe was a bright man with a promising future,” he told the Daily Orange shortly after Hughes’ untimely death at age 32….

Arts & Culture

Mexican Immigration Scholar Gilberto Cárdenas to Visit Syracuse Dec. 1

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A leading scholar of Mexican immigration, who is also the owner of the world’s largest private collection of Latino art, is making a rare visit to Syracuse University. Gilberto Cárdenas, professor of sociology and executive director of the Notre Dame…

Arts & Culture

‘Dominican Music Week’ Features Pair of Events

Friday, November 11, 2016, By Rob Enslin

“Dominican Music Week” returns to campus with a pair of events organized, in part, by the Department of Art and Music Histories (AMH) in the College of Arts and Sciences. AMH will present a performance by Pa’lo Monte, a New…

Veterans

Career Services Staffer—Army Reservist—Connects Student Vets with Employers

Thursday, November 10, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Jennifer Pluta has tackled U.S. Army basic training, operated an asphalt dump truck to help build security points near the Kuwait and Iraqi borders and serves as a master sergeant in the Army Reserve Careers Division. She understands the rigors…