Tag: Syracuse University

Sports

Syracuse University to Hire Outside Firm to Review Women’s Basketball Program

Syracuse University will hire an outside firm to review its women’s basketball program, following allegations of threats, bullying and unwanted physical contact by Syracuse women’s basketball coach Quentin Hillsman, The Associated Press reported. This comes almost 10 weeks after Hillsman attributed the departure of 11 players to attrition, COVID-19 and the transfer portal. No formal […]

June 30, 2021

STEM

AAC&U Announces Schools to Participate in Non-Tenure-Track STEM Faculty Institute

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced the ten schools chosen to participate in its 2021 Institute on Reframing Institutional Transformation to Include Non-Tenure-Track STEM Faculty. The schools are California State University, Monterey Bay; Clemson University; North Carolina Central University; Providence College; Syracuse University; University of Minnesota Duluth; University of Puerto Rico […]

June 8, 2021

Campus Climate

Syracuse University Community Has Little Faith in University, Reports Find

Syracuse University students have little faith in the university and its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to four reports released this week, The Daily Orange reported. Diversity expert Dr. Damons Williams and the Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation led the research, which was commissioned by the university’s Board of […]

March 31, 2021

Latest News

Syracuse University Launches Joint J.D./M.B.A. Degree Program

To increase access into the legal workforce, Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management and College of Law have collaborated to establish the first-of-its-kind joint online Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degree program.

January 7, 2021

Home

Kevin Richardson, One of the Central Park Five, Earns First Honorary Bachelor’s Degree From Syracuse University

Kevin Richardson, wrongfully convicted of sexual assault in the famous Central Park jogger case, received an honorary undergraduate degree from Syracuse University in October. A scholarship will also be created in his name for Black and Latinx students.

October 29, 2020

Social Justice

Race and Higher Education in Virginia

I remain fascinated by how the higher education landscape has changed. Madison College now is highly competitive James Madison University. The former Northern Virginia campus of the University of Virginia now is George Mason University. Christopher Newport University, Old Dominion University and Virginia Commonwealth University — essentially commuter schools three decades ago — have undergone major transformations.

August 26, 2020

Sports

Syracuse U Creates New Position, Names a Diversity Director for Athletics

Syracuse University has appointed a director for diversity in campus sports, creating a new position in response to the nationwide protests about the poor racial climate in the country. The university announced it has named Salatha Willis associate athletic director of diversity, culture and climate. Willis has been serving as associate director of the university’s […]

July 10, 2020

News Roundup

Ex-Syracuse Athlete Group Launches Anti-Racism Social Media Campaign

Black Oranges, a group of former Syracuse University (SU) student athletes of color, launched the social media campaign #GetOffTheBench on July 4th to encourage others to act against systemic racism. After Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in February, former SU football player Brian Tarrant wanted to organize with others who were “angry.” He sent a Facebook […]

July 6, 2020

Students

University of Michigan’s Kessler Scholars Program for First-Generation Students Expands to Other Institutions

The Kessler Presidential Scholars Program, which was established at the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan (U-M) as a way to support first-generation students financially and academically, will expand to more institutions across the country.

May 27, 2020

COVID-19

Syracuse U Offers Class of 2020 Half Off Graduate School Tuition

Keeping in mind a coronavirus-related uncertain job market that new graduates will enter, Syracuse University has announced that it will offer students from its Class of 2020 a scholarship that will cover half of tuition for a graduate school program at the institution, reported Syracuse.com. The scholarship program will be called the “2020 Forever Orange […]

April 24, 2020

COVID-19

Syracuse Students Protesting Bias Incidents Reverse Decision to Continue Occupation

Protestors at Syracuse University last week reversed their decision to continue occupying a campus administrative building as the coronavirus emergency progressively worsens in the U.S. The group, #NotAgainSU, began occupying the building on Feb. 17 to protest the more than 20 hate-inspired incidents that have occurred on campus since November 2019. But, roughly a month […]

March 26, 2020

Campus Climate

Minority Professors Ask Themselves: To Protest or Not to Protest?

As students confront administrators about campus climate, it poses a dilemma to their professors, particularly faculty of color: to protest or not to protest? Can professors freely support students’ social justice causes, or are there professional risks involved? How do minority faculty decide when and how to show solidarity?

March 1, 2020