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iSchool and College of Law to Host Talk on eDiscovery
The School of Information Studies and the College of Law will co-sponsor a talk on e-discovery, to be held on Oct. 25. The event has been organized in honor and memory of SU law professor Ted Hagelin. Hagelin passed away in May,…
Q&A: Public’s Attitudes Toward Public Schools
The 45th annual PDK/Gallup poll of public attitudes toward the public schools was issued August 21. Among its findings is that many people have little idea what the “Common Core” is, even though it may have a major impact on…
Video: President Barack Obama’s Visit to Syracuse
President Barack Obama was greeted with loud cheers from an energetic crowd of young people at Henninger High School Thursday as he spelled out his plan for making college more affordable through innovative efforts that offer students a greater range…
Syracuse Symposium 2013, ‘Listening,’ kicks off Sept. 12
With the theme “Listening,” Syracuse Symposium 2013, the annual semester-long intellectual and artistic festival, will kick off Thursday, Sept. 12, with a lecture by author Misha Glouberman.
Statement from Chancellor Cantor Regarding President Obama’s Plan to Make College More Affordable
“We were delighted to welcome President Obama to Syracuse as he shared his vision of how we can work together to make college more affordable and create new, innovative efforts that offer students a greater range of affordable, high-quality college…
Sydney Hutchinson Receives AAUW American Fellowship
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded a 2013–14 American Fellowship to Sydney Hutchinson, an assistant professor of ethnomusicology in The College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Music Histories. American Fellowships, AAUW’s oldest and largest funding…
Dympna Callaghan: Raise Your Voice for the Humanities!
[box type=”default” size=”medium”] Dympna Callaghan[/box] Dympna Callaghan, the William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters and a renowned Shakespearean scholar in The College of Arts and Sciences, is serving as interim director of the SU Humanities Center. She gave…
A Classroom of Promise
Five SU students traveled to South Africa for an SU Abroad course on the socio-economic development and educational system in the pre- and post-apartheid eras.They came back with much more and left behind a lasting impact on some young minds.
The Limits of War
Is torture legal? Is one death justified to save thousands of lives? Are soldiers responsible for obeying an officer’s command to kill civilians? In partnership with the American Red Cross of the Central New York Region, four Syracuse University students challenged a group of young people at the Southside Academy Charter School to think about these questions.
Rwandan Students in Residency for Teacher-Librarianship Training
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently welcomed four new distance students, teachers from Rwanda’s Kigali Institute of Education whose two-week summer residency is the initial step in their professional development in teacher-librarianship. It is also part of a larger…