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A New Morrill Act: Higher Education Anchors The 'Remaking Of America', Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

One might think that a global financial crisis would be no time for college and university presidents to think expansively. Hunkering down is the more natural reaction to a threat of the magnitude that the economy continues to present. But expansive thought is exactly what we need right now—not necessarily the kind that grows our physical plant or our list of program offerings, but a fundamental reexamination of what American higher education is all about and where each of our institutions fits into that ideal.

Laying The Foundation For Literacy (Full Report), Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program

Community Benchmarks Program

The purpose of this report is to provide baseline data for eight indicators developed by the Literacy Coalition of Onondaga County (LCOC) to measure the organization’s success in achieving their mission of 100% literacy through 100% Community Engagement.

1. Percent of children who are read to daily 2. Percent of incoming kindergarteners prepared for school. 3. Percent of K-12 students meeting proficiency standards on New York State English and Language Arts assessment. 4. Percent of youth graduating from high school. 5. Percent of adult learners who make educational gain. 6. Percent of adult learners entering or retaining employment. 7. Percent …

Remarks By Su Chancellor & President Nancy Cantor Chancellor's Convocation For New Students, August 2009, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

Just a few months ago, here in the dome, our graduating students heard from Vice President Joe Biden, a graduate of the SU College of Law. As I look at you today, some of his words keep going through my mind. He said that we are standing at an inflection point in history, where the curve shifts, everything comes together and everything changes. The same can be said for you today – this is your inflection point, when you can shape not only your future, but all of ours. As Biden said: “Absent … input and leadership, the world will …

Remaking America: Universities As Anchor Institutions, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

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Remarks Delivered At 2009 Commencement, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

You didn’t look the other way; you walked right on forward, turning what you know into what you can do. You prepared your selves for the challenges of this world by learning in it – for you, the pressing issues of our time are not just “academic” – they are real. You know what we must do to turn our schools, our neighborhoods, our environment, our health, our social conflicts, our economies around. You know what local-global resonance is all about, and you know the power of cultural diplomacy and the reach of the digital media. You know that it …

Scholarship In Action: Transforming Community And Higher Education, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

Now is the time, as the Kellogg Commission has observed, for colleges and universities "to reshape our historic agreement with the American people so that it fits the times that are emerging instead of the times that have passed.” In the new world being forged by shared knowledge, universities are superbly positioned to transform themselves and their communities.We find ourselves on new ground, inspired by the possibilities for change, thinking about roles we can and should play in a new America. In this, we're invited by the social-legal theorist, Susan Sturm at Columbia to consider the “architecture of inclusion,” to …

Why Diversity Still Needs A Champion, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

Although The New York Times has already observed that President Barack Obama is an "omnipresent icebreaker" in the national conversation about race, now is a good time to recall the President's warning that we will not "get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy" and that race is something in American history and life "that we've never really worked through." Diversity—and not only in race (though importantly race)—is an agenda that still needs champions, on campus as well as in Washington, D.C.

Conscious Connections: Keynote Address, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

Today as we explore the many ways to imagine, create, and sustain two-way connections between artists and their audiences and broader communities, including universities, it's important to underscore the transformative nature of these connections, especially when they are embraced deliberately, as this year’s conference theme of conscious connections suggests. We know this as individuals---as presenters, performers or members of the audience. The dancer Twyla Tharp once said, "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." For a little while, the magic of art can carry us to a different place, and we find ourselves at home among …

Remaking America: Universities As Anchor Institutions-The Syracuse Example, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

Chancellor Cantor reflected on President Obama's call to action for universities to use their intellectual capital to reform our schools, cleanse our natural environment, bridge the toxic schisms in our social environment, and mobilize our talented youth in "Remaking America," and described SU's engagement in these pressing issues in the City of Syracuse and across the world. Chancellor Cantor also announced that she has directed $2 million in external funding SU recently received toward 19 Chancellor's Leadership Projects. The projects exemplify the University's vision of Scholarship in Action and bring together faculty, students and experts from various disciplines to address …

Writing Information Literacy Assessment Plans: A Guide To Best Practice, Megan Oakleaf

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Academic librarians throughout higher education add value to the teaching and learning missions of their institutions though information literacy instruction. To demonstrate the full impact of librarians on students in higher education, librarians need comprehensive information literacy assessment plans, composed of instructional program-level and outcome-level components, that summarize the purpose of information literacy assessment, emphasize the theoretical basis of their assessment efforts, articulate specific information literacy goals and outcomes, describe the major assessment methods and tools used to capture evidence of student learning, report assessment results, and highlight improvements made as a consequence of learning assessment.

Invisibility And In/Di/Visuality: The Relevance Of Art Education In Curriculum Theorizing, James Haywood Rolling

Teaching and Leadership - All Scholarship

This article investigates how representation attaches meaning to bodies, how certain bodies are categorically misrepresented and masked from normativity, and proposes a curriculum theory affording the agency of the misrepresented to demask invisibility. Brief historical narratives of three kinds of invisibility are presented as they are manifested in educational practice and visual culture—masking those deemed to occupy lesser physical bodies, lesser bodies of knowledge, and bodies lesser-than-normal. The author argues the relevance of art education as a transformative pedagogical practice that can inform and promote social significance, or what the author terms as in/di/visuality, the agency to reinterpret misrepresented physical …

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Art Education And The Symbolic Interaction Of Bodies And Self-Images., James Haywood Rolling

Teaching and Leadership - All Scholarship

This article begins with the premise that self-imagery is constituted as a shape-shifting aggregate of symbolic systems that incorporates the human body itself as one of its representations. At intermittent points of the body’s embodiment of visual culture and tacit social experience, alternative representations accrete into varying symbolic systems, the multiple shapes a self-image may take over a lifetime. Given that social identity is derived from the interaction of various symbolic systems, how do some bodies and self-images come to be taken as that of identities incompatible with most others? In this exploration of the self-image and identity, the author …