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New Action Underway to Combat COVID-19 Spread
Dear Faculty and Staff: The resurgence of the COVID-19 virus around our country is intensifying on the heels of holiday travel and gatherings. Here in Onondaga County, we are experiencing rising infection rates and an uptick in hospitalizations. In response,…
Important Updates from the Office of Academic Affairs
Dear Colleagues: As we near the end of the fall semester, we are writing to provide you with some important updates from the Office of Academic Affairs regarding: Extension of the tenure clock for faculty who joined Syracuse University in…
COVID-19 Update: December Testing Hours | Mask Reminder | Sharing Thanks
Dear Students, Faculty, Staff and Families: I hope you had a healthy and peaceful holiday break and wish you the very best during the final days of this semester. And while the fall academic semester has not yet come to…
Syracuse University, College of Law Sign Agreement with Uzbekistan Institutions to Assist Uzbek Disability Rights Capacity Building
Syracuse University and the College of Law have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with three institutions from the Republic of Uzbekistan to strengthen academic ties with the republic, share expertise on disability rights and collaborate to create a disability…
Students, Faculty to Use Immersive Media to Explore the Complicated History—and Future—of Syracuse’s I-81
The construction of Interstate 81 in the 1960s cut through the city of Syracuse, leaving a wound that still pains the community five decades later. With newly secured funding from the Journalism 360 initiative, a team of Newhouse School students…
Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence Provides Summary of Student Survey Results
As part of ongoing efforts to address, respond to and raise awareness about interpersonal violence, the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence, with support from the Office of Institutional Research, administered the 2020 Sexual and Relationship Violence Student…
Women in Leadership Initiative Announces Spring 2021 Programming
After kicking off in the fall of 2018, the Women in Leadership (WiL) initiative, created through the vision of Candace Campbell Jackson, senior vice president and chief of staff to Chancellor Kent Syverud, and a steering committee of women leaders,…
Be Alert: Increased Phishing Email Activity
The Information Security team within Information Technology Services (ITS) has seen an increase in phishing email activity targeting Syracuse University students, faculty and staff in recent weeks. These attacks include password harvesters that provide links directing the recipient to “click…
New Staff within Office of Diversity and Inclusion Enhances Efforts to Create More Welcoming Campus
To continue to build its efforts in creating an equitable, diverse, accessible and inclusive campus, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has welcomed new staff members and student advisors. The new staff members, working with Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer…
“Rural Areas Send Their Sickest Patients To The Cities, Straining Hospital Capacity.”
Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the NPR story “Rural Areas Send Their Sickest Patients To The Cities, Straining Hospital Capacity.” Monnat, who also serves as the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion,…