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Hip-Hop Dance Class Performance Featured InclusiveU Students
The Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education hosted a hip-hop dance performance on March 2 in Huntington Hall’s Sharon H. Jacquet Education Commons, featuring students in the “Introduction to Hip-Hop” class, including two InclusiveU students. The performance, titled…
Author-Scholar to Explore Wisdom of Private Sector Models in Higher Education
Christopher Newfield, professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a talk titled “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Damage Universities, and How They Can Recover” on Thursday, March 31, at 5 p.m….
Neuroscience Expert Shares Love for Dance with People with Parkinson’s Disease
Tumay Tunur feels dance helps people with Parkinson’s disease escape from their world of problems, medication and illness.
School of Education Doctoral Students Present at United Nations in Vienna
Two School of Education special education doctoral students, Brent Elder and Michelle Damiani, presented at the 2016 Zero Project Conference, convened by the Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre at the United Nations Office in…
School of Education Faculty Find Inspiration in 30-Day Writing Challenge
Faculty members in the School of Education were feeling a double pull: they needed time to write, and they wanted to unite toward a goal and get to know each other better. “When we sponsored an all-day writing retreat for…
Landscape of Urban Education Series Presents Lecture in Memory of Beloved SOE Professor
The School of Education will welcome Michelle Fine, distinguished professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center to give a public lecture on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m. in Watson Hall Theater. Her presentation, titled “Prec(ar)ious…
Bernice M. Wright Child Development Laboratory School Now Enrolling for Fall 2016
Openings are now available for Fall 2016 at the Bernice M. Wright Child Development Laboratory School. An open house will take place from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27. Classes are offered 9 a.m.-noon for toddlers and preschoolers. An…
School of Education Hosts Student Group from Japan’s Kobe University
A group of students from Kobe University in Japan visited the University during the first week of February. The seven students, both undergraduate and graduate, and their faculty mentor spent a week with School of Education faculty and local school…
Syracuse University Fit Families Program to Include Children with Autism
The Fit Families Program for Children with Autism, a research-based physical activity program for families with children with autism ages 5 to 10, is currently accepting applications for its five-session workshop beginning in March. Luis Columna, associate professor of exercise…
Scholar Spotlight: Cora Cool-Mihalyi ’16
Cora Cool-Mihalyi, a graduating senior in the School of Education and a Say Yes Scholar, firmly believes in and exemplifies the principle that all children deserve the right to equal education, regardless of their background or disabilities. Cool-Mihalyi is completing…