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Important Update About the Return to Campus Plan for Faculty and Staff
Dear Faculty and Staff: As announced yesterday, Syracuse University will resume residential instruction in August 2020, which includes an accelerated academic calendar. Simultaneously, a cross-functional working group of deans, faculty and staff is working to develop and implement a comprehensive…
‘Unleash the Entrepreneurs America Needs to Build a Post-Coronavirus Economy’
Carl J. Schramm is a University Professor in the School of Information Studies and former president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. COVID-19 has resulted in unemployment rates in America the likes of which haven’t seen since the Great Depression….
Important Update about Retrieval of Students’ Belongings from Syracuse University
Dear Parents and Families: I recognize many of you, and your students, are anxious to return to campus to retrieve belongings from residence halls. And although phase one of the reopening of New York state is now underway, at this…
‘The Postal Service is Essential to National Security’
Osamah F. Khalil is an associate professor of history in the Maxwell School. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of medical and food supply chains as well as the importance of often overlooked and underpaid service workers, Khalil says…
Southeast ADA Center Launches Disability and COVID-19 Portal
The Southeast ADA Center (SEADA), a project of the Burton Blatt Institute and a member of the ADA National Network, has launched the Disability and COVID-19 Portal. The portal, in development since mid-March, began as a way for the SEADA…
Coronavirus Update 5.12.20: Returning Faculty and Staff to Campus
Dear Faculty and Staff: On April 18, we notified the campus community that, consistent with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “New York State on PAUSE” Executive Order, faculty and staff would continue to work remotely through at least Friday, May 15. Only…
Graduating Military Spouse: Dominique Visser
U.S. Army spouse Dominique Visser was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. She was working as an international trade advisor/market development specialist for the Australian federal government when she was told of her now-husband, Andy, by mutual friends. “Good…
Graduating Student Veteran: Ariel Blanco
Ariel Blanco’s interest in the military was piqued while he was in high school in Miami, impressed by both the demeanor of the recruiters that visited the school and the opportunity military life could provide. “I grew up in a…
Graduating Student Veteran: Peggy Trujillo
With her graduation this month, Peggy Trujillo will have both a 20-year journalism career and her Syracuse University diploma. As the child of a U.S. Air Force master sergeant, Trujillo spent her childhood moving from place to place for her…
Is it a right to not wear a mask?
Reporters looking for an expert to offer insight into the political and social divides of wearing masks in public should contact Syracuse University associate law professor Doron Dorfman. Prof. Dorfman can offer a legal analysis of what can or cannot be…