Jenna Caira, a physical education major in the School of Education and softball pitcher at Syracuse University, will represent Canada in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. The entire Canadian team will travel to Mexico on Oct. 12 and participate in the games until Oct. 24. Caira will be required to provide bi-weekly […]
The Division of Student Affairs has appointed Diane R. Wiener as the first director of SU’s new Disability Cultural Center. Wiener will begin on Oct. 17. “Dr. Wiener is to fill an important role at Syracuse University,” says Thomas V. Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs. “With the assistance of our partners across campus, […]
As part of Syracuse University’s disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, the documentary film “Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road” will be shown on Monday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium of Schine Student Center. The event is free and open to the public, and the film will be shown in […]
The Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education is hosting the photography exhibit “PHOTOVOICE Changing the Image of Disabilities: Reflections and Resolutions,” a national project that gives community groups a voice through photography and poetry. PHOTOVOICE is free and open to the public and will be on display in the Hoople Special Education Building, […]
Timothy K. Eatman, assistant professor in Syracuse University’s School of Education and research director of Imagining America, has been invited to serve as a scholar-in-residence at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa from Aug. 10-23. Eatman will also be senior research adviser for “We the People:” The American Commonwealth Project in the upcoming […]
The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education at Syracuse University continues to promote leadership opportunities for students with disabilities with its first national conference, “DisAbled & Proud: A Call to Lead,” to be held Aug. 5-7 on the SU campus. “DisAbled & Proud” is the first conference of its kind in the country to focus on empowering […]
This summer 100 ninth and tenth graders at the Nottingham Early College High School will take part in rigorous writing, math and science institutes led by faculty from Syracuse University’s School of Education and the Syracuse City School District. All three academic programs are the products of year-long collaborative planning between the Syracuse University and Nottingham […]
For only the third time in their 110-year history, community colleges are preparing to take a holistic look at their broad and continuously evolving mission with the naming this week of the landmark 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges. Vincent Tinto, distinguished professor of Higher Education, is one of 36 members of the […]
601 Tully, a new Near West Side community art space, café, classroom and teaching garden; will open its doors to the public for the first time since its renovation on Thursday, June 30, 2011, from 4:30 – 6:30 pm. The open house, hosted by Marion Wilson, Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts, will […]
Katie Hursey, senior in the physical education undergraduate program, became Syracuse’s fourth student-athlete to earn U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-America status this week at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by Drake University. She recorded a 14th-place finish in the 3,000 meter steeplechase to garner second-team […]
More than 300 college students, representing 46 colleges and universities, will be on the Syracuse University campus on Monday, June 13, to train at the Say Yes Summer Institute to become summer enrichment specialists for the 2011 Say Yes to Education Summer Camp. The Summer Institute is a weeklong intensive training program that incorporates project-based lesson […]
Mount Holyoke President Lynn Pasquerella has announced that author and educator Cerri Banks, currently dean of William Smith College and an education professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will become the new Dean of the College as of July 15. “I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Cerri Banks into our community. The scope of […]
Mount Holyoke President Lynn Pasquerella has announced that author and educator Cerri Banks, currently dean of William Smith College and an education professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will become the new Dean of the College as of July 15. Banks received a bachelor’s degree in inclusive elementary and special education, and master’s in […]
Benjamin H. Dotger, assistant professor in Teaching and Leadership Programs in the School of Education, has been awarded a $449,898 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project titled “The Science and Mathematics Simulated Interaction Model (SIM).” The SIM will design and clinically test simulations to prepare pre-service and early-career mathematics and science […]
Syracuse University continues to be a national leader in higher education as it will open the doors to a Disability Cultural Center in the fall of 2011. This groundbreaking center will be the only one of its kind across the nation that is operated by permanent staff members. The Disability Cultural Center will function as […]
Faculty from the Syracuse University department of Science Teaching have partnered with the teachers and administration of Willow Field Elementary in Liverpool to explore a process called “lesson study.” Their efforts will culminate this Thursday, May 19 at 6 pm in a public research lesson held in the Willow Field Elementary gymnasium. This event is […]