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Dear SOE community, On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass gave a speech in Canandaigua, New York in which he stated: “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and...Read More

Currently on display in the Sharon H Jacquet Education Commons is an installation by InclusiveU student Omari Odom, a senior studying animation. Desires and Harmony: Paintings and Drawings by Omari Odom takes viewers on a journey through Odom’s imagination, from his interest in cartoons, video games, and popular culture as a high school student, to...Read More

Two master’s students from the School of Education were featured in local Syracuse news stories about their disability journeys and their work to create disability awareness, acceptance, and inclusion. Haley Evans, a master’s student in inclusive special education, was featured on CNYCentral’s “Stuttering Association Syracuse members ‘hopeful’ for awareness from President-elect” along with David Haas,...Read More

Gemma Cooper-Novack, a literacy education doctoral candidate, continues the School of Education’s commitment to community engagement in her second year as project manager for the The Narratio Fellowship. The Fellowship and it’s associated Artist-in-Residence program brought together local refugee high school students to create biographical films this summer. Fellows will work on their films with...Read More

In 2015, Maria Murray G’96, G’09 was on the precipice of giving up her 20-year career in education to move to Kentucky to pursue a new life as an alpaca farmer. “I decided I was going to leave the whole education world because it was too discouraging,” she says. However, Murray stumbled upon a book...Read More