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SU participates in JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge
Community spirit and great weather highlighted the 2008 JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge in Syracuse June 24. Syracuse University fielded the largest team with 363 participants. This year's event at Onondaga Lake Park featured 6,704 runners and walkers from 259 companies. Beneficiaries are the Salvation Army of the Syracuse Area and OCCRA. Read the Full Story
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| | South Side Film Festival begins July 11
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The Syracuse University South Side Initiative and the Southside Community Coalition will host the popular South Side Film Festival on four upcoming Fridays. The festival is co-sponsored by Visual Technologies. Read the Full Story
Syracuse University Library receives major gift of more than 200,000 78-rpm sound recordings from family of late Manhattan record store owner Morton J. Savada
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Syracuse University Library's Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive has received a major gift from the family of the late Morton J. "Morty" Savada -- the complete inventory of his Manhattan record store, Records Revisited, including more than 200,000 78-rpm records, along with a related print collection of catalogs, discographies and other materials. With the addition of the Savada Collection, Belfer's holdings now total more than 400,000 78-rpm recordings -- second in size only to the collections of the Library of Congress. Read the Full Story
AAHRPP gives full accreditation to Syracuse University's human subjects research protection program
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The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc. (AAHRPP) has granted Syracuse University full accreditation for its human subjects research protection program for the next three years. In meeting AAHRPP's high accreditation standards, SU is recognized for exceeding federal requirements for safeguarding research participants in all research studies. Read the Full Story
$50,000 grant to Syracuse University will enable 32 NYC high school students to earn six credits of college-level instruction for free through Summer College in New York City
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Syracuse University and the Friends of the High School for Leadership and Public Service announced today that the Charles Hayden Foundation has awarded the institutions a $50,000 grant to help fund the innovative Summer College in New York City Program. The program is designed to give New York City public high school students a chance to experience college-level courses and earn college credit during the summer before their senior year. Read the Full Story
Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor awarded new contract through 2014
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The Syracuse University Board of Trustees' Compensation Committee and Executive Committee voted unanimously at their June meeting to award Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor a new contract that will extend and solidify the mutual commitment between the Chancellor and the University through 2014.
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The Rev. Kelly N. Sprinkle named interim dean of Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel
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Sprinkle, the University's Protestant chaplain, succeeds Dr. Thomas V. Wolfe, who was appointed the University's interim senior vice president of student affairs on June 3. Read the Full Story
National higher education consortium urges reform that values public scholarship
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Higher education leaders in the humanities, arts and design from across the United States are amplifying a wave of reform to recognize public scholarship in faculty tenure and promotion decisions. The catalyst for this movement is the release of "Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University," a new report from Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. Read the Full Story
Syracuse iSchool helps launch new international academy of library and information science in China
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Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Dean Elizabeth D. Liddy and iSchool associate professor Jian Qin participated earlier this month in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the International Collaborative Academy of Library and Information Science (ICALIS) at Wuhan University -- home to the top-ranked information management program in China. Read the Full Story
Bonzi appointed to new position dedicated to instructional quality in SU School of Information Studies
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Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) associate professor Susan Bonzi has been named to the new position of director of instructional quality in the school. She assumes her new responsibilities July 1.
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SU part-time faculty approve three-year union contract
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Syracuse University part-time faculty members on Monday approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement between the University and Adjuncts United, a labor union affiliated with the New York State United Teachers Union. Read the Full Story
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Melvin T. Stith and Marty Whitman: "Colleges must help returning veterans"
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