Syracuse University

Syracuse University (SU) - private nonprofit higher education institution in United States.

Syracuse University - Description

Syracuse University’s vision—Scholarship in Action—speaks to the fulfillment that comes with caring about the most pressing problems that face the world, doing everything you can to understand them better, and then committing yourself to taking an active role in addressing them. Today, SU is simply burgeoning with opportunities to help you assume just that kind of role, to enable you to pursue your dreams with a passion while serving a greater purpose—or, as you might say, to do well while doing good. Many of these opportunities will present themselves to you through the structures of your academic program. For example, as part of a course assignment, you may very well find yourself working collaboratively with teams of other students, professors, and members of the local community to examine a global issue that we face locally, right here in Syracuse, such as promoting economic development that is sustainable, making our indoor and outdoor environments healthier, or developing creative approaches to K-12 education that will make it more engaging for all students. Likewise, you may find yourself tackling issues like these as part of an extracurricular activity with a student organization—maybe even creating an organization to meet an unmet need you see.... Syracuse University aspires to be a pre-eminent and inclusive student-focused research university, preparing engaged citizens, scholars, and leaders for participation in a changing global society. As a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, Syracuse University faculty and staff support student success by: encouraging global study, experiential learning, interdisciplinary scholarship, creativity, and entrepreneurial endeavors; balancing professional studies with an intensive liberal arts education; fostering a richly diverse and inclusive community of learning and opportunity; promoting a culture of innovation and discovery; supporting faculty, staff, and student collaboration in creative activity and research that address emerging opportunities and societal needs; and maintaining pride in our location and history as a place of access, engagement, innovation, and impact. Syracuse University’s strength is based on the interactive and collaborative nature of many of our programs, where faculty and students learn, discover, and create through deep engagement and exchanges with practitioners and communities throughout the world. We see this clearly in the work of our journalists, artists and architects, experts on government and public affairs, or technology and information studies. Building selectively on traditions of excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences, the focus is on scholarly areas in the humanities and sciences that also connect to the world, such as religion and society, or environmental systems. Building excellence in our professional schools is done in a disciplined and focused way, connecting our emerging strengths in areas such as business, law, and engineering, to our highly visible strengths such as communications and public affairs. These interdisciplinary areas resonate with real societal needs providing rich opportunities for new approaches and ideas-creating contexts that act as catalysts for transformational discovery. Syracuse University is a place where creative exchanges occur easily across disciplines and colleges. Our students are given real, entrepreneurial opportunities in settings where students with varied interests from diverse backgrounds can explore and discover. Interdisciplinary programs, such as the Bandier Entertainment Industries Program or Goldring Arts Journalism Program, and our cross-campus Renée Crown Honors Program and Soling Program, have this profile of breaking new ground, as professors, students, and practitioners intersect on and off campus. Discovery and learning at Syracuse have no physical boundaries as we test ideas in the marketplace, be it through community geography or social entrepreneurship, technology commercialization and school reform, or immersions on Theatre Row or Wall Street, and partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) abroad or the Indigenous nations at home in Central New York. We take our traditions even further, aggressively connecting to the world through active engagement with community, industry, practitioners, governments, and the professions, at home and abroad