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Ann Covitz ’62: A Gift to Celebrate Life, Exploration, and the Mother-Daughter Bond

It’s 10:30 a.m. in Sydney, Australia, as Ann Covitz ’62 answers the phone and reflects on her life from the other side of the world. Hers is a story that deserves to be told, and one no parent ever wants to experience. It’s about a final act of love to forever connect a mother and...
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Professor George Theoharis Publishes Second Edition of “The School Leaders Our Children Deserve”

Addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in a political climate of national resistance to DEI, Syracuse University School of Education Professor George Theoharis has published the second edition of The School Leaders Our Children Deserve: Seven Keys to Equity, Social Justice, and School Reform (Teachers College Press, 2024), a bestselling book on school leadership,...
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Professor James H. Rolling Jr. G’91 Elected to The Cooper Union Board of Trustees

James Haywood Rolling Jr. G’91, who since 2007 has been a dual professor of Arts Education and Teaching and Leadership in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and School of Education (SOE), acceded to the Board of Trustees of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in February 2024....
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Professor Courtney Mauldin Awarded MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Racial Wealth Gap Grant

Professor Courtney Mauldin is a co-investigator on a new Syracuse University research project that is one of nine that study issues contributing to or helping alleviate the  racial wealth gap in the United States.  The awards are funded by a MetLife Foundation grant that supports research and community programming over three years to examine the racial wealth gap’s...
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Huey Hsiao Joins Syracuse University School of Education as Assistant Dean for Student Success

A higher education administrator with more than 20 years of experience in roles across advising, recruitment, program management, international education, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, Huey Hsiao returns to Syracuse University as School of Education (SOE) Assistant Dean for Student Success.  As Assistant Dean, Hsiao will enhance student success and belonging as leader of SOE’s...
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School of Education Mourns the Passing of Life Trustee Doris ‘Dottie’ L. Payson ’57

Doris “Dottie” Payson ’57 first parlayed a bachelor’s degree in education from Syracuse University into a teaching career in the Brooklyn School District. But her passion for travel and learning about the wonders of the world led to her second career in the travel industry, serving clients at Jeffrey’s World of Travel, Ltd. in Great...
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Resurrecting Song: Professor Wendy Moy’s New Book Documents Choral Music’s Resilience During COVID-19

In her new book, Wendy Moy, Professor of Music Education in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and School of Education, brings together first-person accounts to offer a sometimes heartbreaking, many times joyful portrait of how choral musicians weathered the coronavirus pandemic. In doing so, Resurrecting Song: A Pathway Forward for the Choral...
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The Hon. JaPaul Harris ’00 Appointed to Minnesota Court of Appeals

The Hon. JaPaul Harris, a 2000 graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Education (SOE), has been appointed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals by Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. Harris fills a vacancy left by the Hon. Jeffrey M. Bryan, recently appointed to the US District Court for the District of Minnesota...
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School of Education Spring 2024 Ganders Lecture Invites You to “Notice Noise”

Busy cafeterias, hushed auditoriums, quiet libraries—learning spaces have familiar soundscapes, but how often do we notice the noise, or lack of it? Join University of Michigan’s Jon M. Wargo for the spring 2024 Syracuse University School of Education Ganders Lecture as he uses case studies to explore sound as a material and a design resource...
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Professor Beth Ferri Named to Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure

Professor Beth Ferri, Syracuse University School of Education Associate Dean for Research, is one of seven faculty members elected to serve on the University Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure. Committee members, who serve two-year, staggered terms, work in an advisory capacity to ensure consistency across the promotion and tenure processes and promote high...
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Five Questions for Debra Jacoby ’99

Debra Jacoby, J.D., graduated from Syracuse University in 1999 with a B.S. in Inclusive Elementary and Special Education and Art History. She is currently a Master Teacher of Intellectual Property and Invention Education working with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. As an elementary educational technologist and computer science teacher, Jacoby is a frequent...
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Marielle McHale ’22, G’24 Ends Orange Ice Hockey Career With All-Time Games Played Record

Editor’s Note: Marielle McHale ’22, G’24 is a graduate student in the School of Education’s Higher Education master’s degree program and Certificate of Advanced Study in Intercollegiate Athletic Advising and Support program, due to graduate in August 2024. For her master’s degree internship, she is gaining experience with the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s...
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Joshua G. McIntosh G’12: Navigating Complexities, Transforming Higher Education

A new chapter unfolds as Syracuse University School of Education graduate Joshua G. McIntosh G’12 starts 2024 as Executive Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, bringing with him a wealth of experience and a trail of successes. For more than a decade, McIntosh has charted an unconventional course in higher...
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Professor Melissa Luke Wins National Counseling Research Award

Professor Melissa Luke, Dean’s Professor of Counselor Education in the Syracuse University School of Education (SOE), has been awarded the 2024 American Counselor Association (ACA) Extended Research Award. Luke’s nomination was sponsored by the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling, a division of ACA. The Extended Research Award recognizes an ACA member who has conducted...
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Professor Courtney Mauldin Speaks to AP About Black Students, Dress Codes, and Hair Styles

School dress codes promote discipline. But many Black students see traces of racism. For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities.  Nowhere have school rules on hair been a bigger flashpoint than in Texas,...
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Higher and Higher: L. Hazel Jack G’24 Continues to Elevate Career in Academia Through Doctoral Studies

The path that ultimately led L. Hazel Jack G’24 to Syracuse University to pursue a doctoral degree in higher education from the School of Education was set in motion on Sept. 11, 2001. Jack was working in the airport advertising field after earning a bachelor’s degree in marketing management and advertising from Pace University. She was responsible for her...
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