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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 graduate assistantship, she gained experience with the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
During the spring 2024 Atrocity Studies Annual Lecture—presented by the Syracuse University School of Education—a panel of experts from the Uyghur Human Rights Project and Uyghur American Association, as well as a survivor of the Chinese Communist Party’s concentration camps, will discuss human rights abuses and crimes against humanity perpetrated against China’s Uyghur minority population […]
(CNY Central | Feb. 12, 2024) For years, universities and colleges have seen a decline in people enrolling in education bachelor programs. Syracuse University professor George Theoharis said he’s witnessed it firsthand. He is saddened by the decline but can find some understanding of why there are fewer students enrolled. … In a Brown University […]
Dialog, an application to increase a sense of belonging on campus for student with disabilities, won the fast-paced, seven-day No Code Design Sprint, hosted by Syracuse University Libraries, the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), and School of Education (SOE), in partnership with Intelligence++. The final round—a pitch competition—was held in the Whitman […]
Entrepreneur, public servant, philanthropist, motivational speaker, and author DeBorah A. Little ’14, G’16 will become the next Vice Chair of Syracuse University School of Education’s (SOE) Advisory Board. As Vice Chair, Little will work with Board Chair Deborah A. Knoblock ’88, G’90 and Advisory Board colleagues to help implement the Dean’s vision for the School, […]