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Syracuse Schools Grad Rates Are Rising: Professor George Theoharis Comments to WAER

Syracuse City School District sees significant gains in graduation rates (WAER Radio | Feb. 18, 2022) The remarkable rise in Syracuse City School District high school graduation rates can have an impact on city students’ and families’ futures according to education experts. Syracuse University professor of educational leadership George Theoharis remembered graduation success was under […]

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“Be the Change”: María De Jesús G’11 on Educational Leadership and Making a Difference Beyond the Classroom

When María De Jesús G’11 was an undergraduate at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY, she worked as a cashier at Nojaim’s Supermarket, once an anchor of the city’s Near Westside neighborhood. “My interest in leadership began there,” recalls De Jesús, Chair of the World Languages Department at Jamesville-DeWitt High School and a student in Syracuse […]

Professor Marcelle Haddix Appointed Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives

Vice Chancellor and Provost Gretchen Ritter announced today the appointment of Marcelle Haddix, Distinguished Dean’s Professor of Literacy, Race, and Justice in Reading and Language Arts, to the position of associate provost for strategic initiatives. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees approved the appointment, which is effective Feb. 14, 2022. Haddix has been […]

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Micah Shippee G’16 Talks “Instructional Design Superpowers”

Micah Shippee G’16 earned his Ph.D. in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation (IDDE) and is now an adjunct professor in the Syracuse University School of Education. In 2021-2022, he is teaching three courses: Principles of Instruction and Learning, Strategies in Educational Project Management, and Planned Change and Innovation. Shippee also is the CEO of Ready […]

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In Her New Book Chapter, Professor Wendy K. Moy Examines the Seattle Men’s Chorus

Wendy K. Moy, Assistant Professor of Music Education in Syracuse University’s School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences, has published “Come Together: An Ethnography of the Seattle Men’s Chorus Family,” a chapter in Together in Music: Coordination, Expression, Participation, published by Oxford University Press (February 2022). Edited by Freya Bailes, Helena Daffern, and […]

School of Education to Co-Sponsor Spring 2022 Edition of (Dis)courses: Interdisciplinary Disability Dialogues

Hosted by the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute and Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature—and co-sponsored by Syracuse University School of Education—the series “(Dis)courses: Interdisciplinary Disability Dialogues” returns in the spring 2022 semester with four conversations featuring luminaries who are engaged with innovative and intersectional disability cultural […]

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School of Education Celebrates Its “Unsung Heroes”

Senior Nathena Murray ’22 and professors David Knapp and Joanna Spitzer are among those awarded 2022 Unsung Hero awards by Syracuse University’s 37th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee. The award winners will be recognized at the 37th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, which will be held online on […]

Melissa Luke to Represent University in ACC Academic Leaders Network

Melissa Luke, Dean’s Professor in counseling and a provost faculty fellow, is one of five Syracuse University faculty members chosen to participate in the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Academic Leaders Network, a program designed to facilitate networking across member institutions and foster collaboration among academic leaders. It also provides participants with leadership development programming, […]

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Deep Roots in Disability at Syracuse University

Since the 1940s, Syracuse University has been a leader in research, training, and advocacy efforts in disability Rights and Disability Studies. “If we have learned one thing from the civil rights movement, it’s that when others speak for you, you lose.” — Ed Roberts View this timeline as a PDF, as published in the Fall […]