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SU SIFE receives grant for new credit counseling programFebruary 06, 2008Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu Syracuse University’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) has been awarded a $2,250 grant from American International Group Inc. to develop a three-year Credit Counseling Challenge, a credit counseling…

Syracuse school children visit SU campus for mentoring/tutoring programMay 07, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Students from five different Syracuse city schools visited the Syracuse University campus Friday, April 27, as culmination and celebration of their yearlong mentoring and tutoring programs with…

Whitman SIFE team takes fourth at national competitionMarch 05, 2007Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu A team of four Whitman School of Management students, representing the Syracuse University chapter of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), was awarded fourth place and $1,000 at the national…

Syracuse University SIFE team awarded grant to host regional case study competitionNovember 09, 2006Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu The Syracuse University chapter of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) was awarded a $19,725 grant to host a regional personal finance case study competition. The…

Maxwell School alumna Denise Kalette ’68 got her first byline at age 12, under a poem titled “The Poor Taxpayer” that she submitted to her local newspaper. In a few paragraphs of playful prose, she drew attention to an issue…

Traci Geisler, director of Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad), presented a keynote address and served as an entrepreneurship competition judge at the first-ever Kenya-USA Global Launchpad Initiative (KUGLi) Innovation Summit, held at Kibabii University in Bungoma, Kenya, Aug. 15-16….

Resettled refugees, also called new Americans, encounter myriad challenges from being displaced, ranging from financial stress to difficulties finding employment to lack of access to resources. These hurdles are magnified for new Americans who, in addition to possibly learning a…

On Feb. 6, 2023, at approximately 4:17 a.m., the first earthquake hit the town of Gaziantep, which lies in southeastern Turkey near the border of Syria. This was the first and most destructive earthquake of that day, reaching a magnitude…

Syracuse University, AT&T, Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) and Tech4Kidz partnered this summer to create the Central New York region’s first free digital literacy and education summer program designed to address equality issues in technology education and to help…

When David Mwambari, originally from Rwanda, first stepped onto the Syracuse University campus in 2008, it was only his third time ever being in the United States. “I had been to the U.S. twice before that, first as an exchange…