The InclusiveU Business Engagement Group invited the local business community to the Salt City Market in downtown Syracuse on April 12, for Inclusion Works 2023. Click below to view the Photo Essay: Attendees learned about the benefits of hiring people with disabilities, met members of the Business Engagement Group, and got a chance to connect […]
Savannah Stocker ’23, an Inclusive Education and Special Education major in the School of Education and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, is among 12 seniors named 2023 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor the University bestows. The Syracuse University Scholars Selection Committee, a University-wide faculty committee, selected the 2023 scholars […]
Syracuse University School of Education Professor Michael Gill has been awarded an Engaged Communities Mini-Grant by the College of Arts and Sciences. The funding allows Gill to collaborate with Brady Farm, located in Syracuse’s South Side neighborhood, to explore how communities use food fermentation as a culture-making practice. Gill’s study addresses fermentation in light of […]
Scaling Up: Syracuse Expands Learning Simulations Clinical simulations give students a hands-on, safe learning environment to engage in interactions with a trained actor. Syracuse University just added to its 60-plus simulations with a new financial ethics simulation. (Inside Higher Ed | April 6, 2023) One educator at Syracuse University is propelling real-world learning with clinical […]
The 2023 Syracuse University Three-Minute Thesis champion is Lei Wang G’18, a doctoral student in the Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation (IDDE) program in the School of Education. She presented “Decision-Making Matters: A Learning Resources Tool to Prompt Deeper Learning” at the 3MT finals on March 3 in Bird Library. 3MT is a research communication […]
Group projects are critical to the applied learning that takes places across the Syracuse University campus, and not least to the Bioengineering Capstone Design course led by Pun To (Douglas) Yung, Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Yung’s course (BEN 486/487) asks student teams to develop real-world solutions to biomedical […]
(The Daily Orange | April 4, 2023) In 2004, Dr. Nick Walker implemented the term “neurominority.” While the term neurodivergent broadly covers acquired conditions like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the term neurominority is specific to conditions that don’t necessarily make a person’s brain different, but are still a disability. On April 4, Walker was part […]
Adrianna Kam holds a B.S. in Selected Studies in Education (2015), an M.S. in School Counseling (2017), and a CAS in School Counseling (2017), all from the Syracuse University School of Education. Currently a school counselor at Chittenango (NY) Middle School, Kam uses research and data driven assessments to help close the achievement gap through […]
Syracuse University Libraries’ Sound Beat: Access Audio has released the audio book King Arthur and the Book of Corbenic, written by InclusiveU graduate Christopher Catroppa ’22. The audio book can be found at SoundBeat.org. This retelling of the Arthurian tale portrays the mythical British King Arthur as a young man gazing into his own future […]
What is it like to be autistic and non-speaking in a world that has already made up its mind about you? On March 30, 2023, Syracuse University School of Education and the Center on Disability and Inclusion will present This Is Not About Me, a film about Jordyn Zimmerman, an autistic woman and disability activist […]
Professor Michael Gill, School of Education Associate Professor of Disability Studies and Cultural Foundations of Education, is among eight faculty members receiving a 2023 Syracuse University Graduate School Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award. The honor is presented to faculty members who have a significant, positive influence on graduate education through their commitment to […]
It’s a blustery day in late November and Mackenzie Gleason ’24 makes sure she has a recipe safely tucked away in a pocket as she walks across campus to Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. She’s headed to the Susan R. Klenk Learning Café and Kitchens and is looking forward to […]
(CNY Central | March 16, 2023) New analysis released last month by The Education Trust finds the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated declining enrollment in New York State schools. This is driving the largest enrollment loss in the nation between the 2019-2020 school year and the 2021-2022 school year. But the analysis did see enrollment increases in […]
Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) will be hosting the Intelligence++ showcase competition on April 21, 2023, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Undergraduate and graduate student teams across Syracuse University—including SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students taking innovation and entrepreneurship courses at Syracuse—who are interested in competing […]
The 2023 Atrocity Studies Annual Lecture—presented by the Syracuse University School of Education—will address how war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other atrocities are documented across the globe and the implications of this evidence for international courts and justice. The lecture features Ewa Schaller, Senior Program Officer, American Friends of Yahad-In Unum, and David M. […]
Syracuse University School of Education is pleased to announce that Nkenge A. Bergan ’95, Board of Visitors member and an expert in educational leadership and school climate training, will address graduates at its 2023 Convocation Ceremony on May 13 at 3:30 p.m. in the Schine Student Center Goldstein Auditorium. Named to the School of Education […]
Vice Chancellor, Provost, and Chief Academic Officer Gretchen Ritter has announced the appointment of Kelly Chandler-Olcott as Dean of the Syracuse University School of Education (SOE). She has served as Interim Dean since 2021, during which time she has led and overseen a significant transformation of the School. The appointment, which was approved by the […]