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Working Group to Review Cluster Hire Initiative
Provost Gretchen Ritter today announced the members of the Cluster Hire Initiative Working Group. The working group report, to be delivered in January 2022, will include a review of each individual cluster and the program as a whole. Cluster hires…
Chancellor Syverud Discusses Progress on Library Facilities, I-81 and Forever Orange Campaign
In his remarks to the University Senate today, Chancellor Kent Syverud introduced Provost Gretchen Ritter and provided updates on construction of the Library Storage Facility addition, potential impacts of the I-81 Corridor Project and the progress of the Forever Orange…
Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Offers Visual Thinking Strategies Workshops
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence is offering two virtual workshops for faculty and instructors on Visual Thinking Strategies, a simple way to engage students. This evidence-based method has been shown to increase critical thinking, observation, and evidentiary reasoning…
University Takes Steps to Strengthen Postdoctoral Training
As part of Syracuse University’s ongoing efforts to boost scholarly research and increase faculty diversity, the Office of Research has announced recipients of the 2021 Postdoctoral Scholars Program awards. “Postdoctoral scholars make significant contributions to the University’s research, creative, scholarship…
Equity Educational Workshops Offered by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) is now offering equity educational workshops on a monthly basis for students, staff and faculty. The workshops will offer participants a more thorough understanding of equity and its impact and how to be…
Managing Midterm Stress for Academic Success
Dear Students: Please take a moment to review our message below outlining a number of resources available to you to help manage stress, anxiety and the demands of your classes. We are reaching the point of the semester where you…
Faculty Professional Development Series ‘Moving the Needle’ Toward DEIA
At her core, Melissa Luke says she is a “consummate scientist practitioner” who prefers to rely on research and data to inform her work. So when the division of Faculty Affairs in the Office of Academic Affairs asked Luke and…
Becoming Forever Orange
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students, Today begins my first full week as a member of the Syracuse University community. I am grateful for the students, faculty, staff and alumni who have already reached out to welcome me home to Upstate…
Syracuse University Reinforces Commitment to Faculty Pay Equity, Agrees to Class-Action Settlement
Four years ago, Syracuse University commenced a comprehensive exercise to assess whether full-time faculty were compensated equitably. The administration and University Senate commissioned a survey, and the Office of Institutional Research built and implemented a model that resulted in nearly…