Syracuse University
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| Motto: | Suos Cultores Scientia Coronat (Latin: "Knowledge crowns those who seek her.") |
| Established: | 1870 |
| Type: | Private |
| Endowment: | $1.1 billion |
| Chancellor: | Nancy Cantor |
| Faculty: | 1,353 |
| Students: | 19,082[1] |
| Location: | Syracuse, NY, U.S. |
| Campus: | Urban and Suburban |
| Colors: | Orange |
| Nickname: | The Orange  |
| Mascot: | Otto the Orange  |
| Affiliations: | Association of American Universities, Big East, Historic and symbolic ties to the United Methodist Church, but independent in its governance[2][3][4] |
| Website: | www.syr.edu |
Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. The city is near the geographic center of New York state, about 250 miles northwest of New York City. Syracuse was founded as a seminary by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, as a college in 1850 and as a university in 1870. Since 1920, the university has defined itself as nonsectarian.[5] The campus is mostly residential, featuring an eclectic mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque structures to state-of-the-art contemporary buildings.
[edit] Profile
Admission to Syracuse is competitive. For the Class of 2012, there were 22,000 applicants for 3,000 seats in the Freshman class. The university has 897 full-time instructional faculty and 107 part-time faculty, and its libraries have over 3.16 million volumes. In fall 2006, the university had over 12,000 full-time undergraduate students and over 1,000 part-time undergraduate students, as well as almost 4,000 full-time graduate and law students and 2,000 part-time graduate and law students. In 2005/2006, the university granted over 2,600 Bachelors degrees; almost 2,000 Masters degrees; over 300 Juris Doctors degrees; and over 160 Doctoral degrees. U.S. News & World Report ranks Syracuse University 50th among national universities in the United States for 2008.
[edit] History
[edit] Genessee Wesleyan Seminary
In 1832, the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was founded by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York, south of Rochester. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Luckey was elected the first Principal of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and was transferred from the New York Annual Conference of the M.E. Church to the Genessee Conference. He remained in this office until 1836, when he was elected by the M.E. General Conference as the Editor of The Christian Advocate and Journal, an important denominational periodical.
The institution is said to have "opened most favorably," with a total enrollment the first year (1831-32) of 341, with 170-180 students attending at any one time. The Agents of the seminary solicited funds for the erection of handsome buildings. In 1880, Bishop Matthew Simpson of the M.E. Church described the seminary's early years thus "no other institution in the church accomplishing apparently more in the education of active and useful young men and young women." The early years of the institution was said to be ones of "great prosperity." This was especially true under the administrations of the Rev. Schuyler Seager. Seager was born 8 July 1807 in Simsbury, Connecticut. He joined the Genesee Conference in 1833. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1836. That same year he was appointed Teacher of Moral Science and Belles-Lettres in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He was chosen as Principal of the seminary in 1837. After entering pastoral ministry in 1844, he returned to the seminary in 1854, again as Principal. In 1856-57 he was made Principal of the Genesee Model School in Lima, New York, an offshoot of the seminary.
[edit] Genessee College
In 1850 it was resolved to enlarge the institution from a seminary into a college, or to connect a college with the seminary. The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Tefft was elected President of this endeavor. The name was chosen as Genesee College. However, the location was thought by many not to be sufficiently central. Its difficulties were compounded by the next set of technological changes: the railroad that displaced the Erie Canal as the region's economic engine bypassed Lima completely. In 1866, after several hard years, the trustees of the struggling college decided to seek a locale whose economic and transportation advantages could provide a better base of support. As Genesee College began looking for a new home, the bustling community of Syracuse, ninety miles to the east, was engaged in a search of its own. The rail age had expanded the prosperity brought by the Erie Canal, and the city was booming, but its citizens yearned for something more:
"What gives to Oxford and Cambridge, England, to Edinburgh, Scotland, to New Haven, Connecticut, their most illustrious names abroad?" asked one local writer. "Their Universities," he answered. "Syracuse has all the advantages: business, social, and religious – let her add the educational and she adds to her reputation, her desirability."[6]
After a year of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima and contending cities across the state, it was resolved to remove the college to Syracuse, New York to become the nucleus of Syracuse University. The college, its libraries, the students and faculty, and the college's two secret societies all relocated to Syracuse.
[edit] Founding of Syracuse University
| ”Had it been up to Andrew Dickson White, things might have taken a different turn. White was a prominent citizen of…Syracuse who happened also to be the president of Cornell. He wanted his university to reside on the Hill and took the matter to founder Ezra Cornell. But Ezra, who had other ideas, built Cornell on his own farmland…and Syracuse University came to make its home on the Hill.” [7] {{{source}}} |
On March 24, 1870, the state of New York granted Syracuse University its charter and Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck (who had earlier committed $25,000 for the institution's endowment) was elected the first president of the Board of Trustees.[8] George F. Comstock, a member of the new University's Board of Trustees, had offered the school, as part of the negotiations that brought it to Syracuse, fifty acres of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center. From the beginning, Comstock intended Syracuse University and the hill to develop as an integrated whole; a contemporary account described the latter as "a beautiful town...springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership...established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution."[9]
By the end of the 1880's, the University had resumed construction on the south side of University Place. Holden Observatory (1887) was followed by two Romanesque Revival buildings – von Ranke Library (1889), now Tolley Administration Building, and Crouse College (1889). Together with the Hall of Languages, these first buildings formed the basis for the "Old Row," a grouping which, along with its companion Lawn, established one of Syracuse's most enduring images.[10] The emphatically linear organization of these buildings along the brow of the hill follows a tradition of American campus planning which dates to the construction of the "Yale Row" in the 1790's.[11] At Syracuse, the Old Row continued to provide the framework for its growth well into the twentieth century.
The University grew rapidly. It offered programs in the physical sciences and modern languages, and, in 1873, Syracuse added an architecture program, one of the first in the U.S. and the first program in architecture to be associated with a school of fine arts. In 1874, Syracuse created the nation's first bachelor of fine arts degree and in 1876, the school offered its first post-graduate courses in the College of Arts and Sciences; its first doctoral program was added in 1909. One of the nation's first university schools of journalism (now the Newhouse School of Public Communications) was established at Syracuse in 1934.
[edit] Coeducation
Coeducation at Syracuse traced its roots to the early days of the Genessee Seminary and College where suffragists like Frances Willard and Belva Lockwood distinguished themselves nationally. However, the progressive "co-ed" policies initiated at Genessee would soon find controversy at the new university in Syracuse.[12] Colleges and universities admitted few women students in the 1870’s. In fact, administrators and faculty members gave women a rather reluctant welcome. They argued women had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. In this controversy, Dr. Erastus O. Haven, Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, maintained that women should receive the advantages of higher education. He enrolled his daughter, Frances, at Syracuse, where she was initiated in the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Incidentally, Dr. Frank Smalley, a professor at the University, first coined the word sorority with respect to Gamma Phi Beta.
 Belva Lockwood- A graduate of Genessee College, she was the first woman to receive her party’s nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. |
 Frances Willard- A professor at Genessee, Willard was the first woman represented among the illustrious company of America’s greatest leaders in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. |
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Clara Bradley Wheeler Baker Burdette-A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she graduated in the Syracuse class of 1876. She was a writer, lecturer, business woman, philanthropist, a trustee of the University, and was listed in Who’s Who of America. |
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Martha Emily Foote Crow- Crow received a Ph.D. in English literature. She taught and wrote, and went abroad to study at Cambridge, Oxford, and Leipzig. She served as Dean of Women at Northwestern University, and was also a founder of the American Association of University Women. |
[edit] Chancellor Day, John Archbold and the transformation of Syracuse University
The transformation of Syracuse University from a small liberal arts oriented university into a major comprehensive university capable of competing with other prestigious institutions were due to the efforts of two iconic men. Chancellor James Day and John Archbold. James Roscoe Day was educated at Bowdoin College and was serving the Calvary Church in New York City where he befriended Archbold. Together, the two dynamic figures would oversee the first of two great periods of campus renewal in Syracuse's history.[13]
John Dustin Archbold was a capitalist, philanthropist, and President of the Board of Trustees at Syracuse University. He was known as John D. Rockefeller’s right hand man and successor at the Standard Oil Company. He was a close friend of Syracuse University Chancellor James R. Day, and gave almost $6,000,000 to the University over his lifetime.
"Mr. Archbold’s place in the oil industry is second to that of John D. Rockefeller. That is the verdict of those best able to judge… He is the president of the board of trustees of Syracuse University, an institution which has prospered so remarkably since his connection with it that its student roll has increased from hundreds to over 4,000, including 1,500 young women, placing it in the ranks of the foremost institutions of learning in the United States." -Men Who Are Making America (1917)[14]
[edit] Post War Growth and the Genesis of a Major Research University
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After World War II, Syracuse University experienced major growth. Enrollment quintupled in the four years after the war and
"The velocity with which the university sped through its change into a major research institution was astounding. By the end of the 1950s, Syracuse ranked twelfth nationally in terms of the amount of its sponsored research, and it had over four hundred professors and graduate students engaging in that investigation."[15]
In 1966, Syracuse was admitted to the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU)- an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education.
[edit] Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
On December 21, 1988, 35 Syracuse University students were among the 270 fatalities and among 189 American fatalities in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students were returning from a study-abroad program in Europe. That evening, Syracuse University went on with a basketball game. The university was severely criticized for going on with the game, just hours after the attack. The conduct of university officials in making the decision was also brought to the attention of the NCAA. The day after the bombing, the university's chancellor then, Dr. Melvin Eggers, himself criticized for allowing the game to be played, said on nationwide television that he should have canceled the event. Lingering memories of this public relations disaster were likely to have influenced the NCAA cancellation of all football games set for the weekend following the September 11, 2001 attacks.[16] [17]
The school later dedicated a memorial to the students killed on Flight 103. Every year, during the fall semester, the university holds an event known as "Remembrance Week" to commemorate the students. Every December 21, a service is held in the university's chapel by the university's chaplains at 2:03 p.m. (19:03 UTC), marking the exact moment in 1988 the plane was bombed. The University also maintains a link to this tragedy with the "Remembrance Scholars" program, when 35 senior students receive scholarships during their final year at the University. With the "Lockerbie Scholars" program, two graduating students from Lockerbie Academy study at Syracuse for one year.
[edit] Campus
The university is set on a mostly residential campus, which features an eclectic mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque structures to contemporary buildings designed by renowned architects such as I.M. Pei. The center of campus, with its grass quadrangle, landscaped walkways, and outdoor sculptures, offers students the amenities of a traditional college experience. The university overlooks Downtown Syracuse, a medium-sized city. The school also owns a Sheraton Hotel and a golf course on campus, as well as properties in New York City, Washington, D.C. and a 30 acre (121,000 m²) conference center in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York.
[edit] Main Campus
The stairway to the Hall of Languages, the main building of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the oldest building on campus. The monument to the faculty and students lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is located in the foreground.
The Quad, the center of the Main Campus. Located at the west end is Hendricks Chapel, with the Carrier Dome to its left. Link Hall would be immediately behind the photographer.
Also called "North Campus," the Main Campus contains nearly all academic buildings and residence halls. Its centerpiece is "The Quad", which is surrounded by academic buildings, especially those of the College of Arts and Sciences. Most of the roads of the Main Campus are traffic-restricted during weekdays. Some university buildings lie outside of this area, particularly in the urban area north of the campus around Marshall Street. To the south of the main campus is Oakwood Cemetery, of the rural cemetery type that was popular during the epoch. To the east lies Thornden Park, one of the largest parks within the city proper. Medical complexes, along with Interstate 81 border it to the west.
Approximately 5,000 students live in the sixteen residence halls on the Main Campus. Most residence halls are co-ed by room, and all are smoke-free. Some still have gender-specific floors. North campus housing includes singles, open doubles, split (wall-segmented) doubles, and multi-person suites. Residence hall height ranges from three to twenty-one floors.
The North Campus represents a large portion of the University Hill neighborhood. Buses run to South Campus, as well as Downtown Syracuse and other locations in the city. Prior to 2008, OnTrack provided service to Downtown and the Carousel Center mall from a station near the Carrier Dome. [18]
A few block walk from Main Campus on East Genessee St, the Syracuse Stage building includes two proscenium theatres. The Storch is used primarily by the Drama Department and the Archbold, which is used primarily by Syracuse Stage, a professional regional theatre. The building also includes a black box space, classroom and rehearsal spaces, the Sutton Pavilion, two dance studios, faculty offices and a scene and costume shop.
[edit] South Campus
After World War II, a large undeveloped hill owned by the university was used to house returning veterans in military-style campus housing. During the 1970s, this housing was replaced by permanent two-level townhouses for two or three students each, or for graduate family housing. There are also three small freshman-only residence halls which feature open doubles and a kitchen on every floor. South Campus is also home to the Institute for Sensory Research, Tennity Ice Pavilion, Goldstein Student Center, Skytop Office Building (for administration) and the InnComplete Pub, a graduate student bar. Just north are the headquarters of SU Athletics located in the Manley Athletics Complex. Approximately 2,500 students live on the South Campus, which is connected to the main campus by frequent bus service.
[edit] Downtown
In December 2004 the university announced that it had purchased or leased twelve buildings in Downtown Syracuse. There are two programs, Communications Design and Advertising Design, from the College of Visual and Performing Arts that reside permanently in the newly renovated facilities, fittingly called The Warehouse, which was renovated by Gluckman Mayner Architects. Both programs were chosen to be located in the downtown area because of their history of working on projects directly with the community. Hundreds of students and faculty have also been affected by the temporary move of the School of Architecture downtown for the $12 million renovation of its campus facility, Slocum Hall. The Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems is scheduled for completion in 2006. The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company and the Community Folk Art Center will also be located downtown.
On March 31, 2006, the university and the city announced the beginning of an initiative to connect the main campus of the university with the arts and culture areas of downtown Syracuse and the university's new presence at The Warehouse [19]. The Connective Corridor project, supported by a combination of public and private funds, had an international design competition. The Warehouse also houses a contemporary art space that commissions, exhibits and promotes the work of local and international artists in a variety of media. South Campus Syracuse South Campus is one of the oldest and most revered campuses at the university. It is known for its beautiful scenery and superior maintenance.
[edit] Rome, New York
Since 2005, the university has offered classes for a Masters of Science in Computer Engineering in Rome, New York. [20].
[edit] Former campuses
Triple Cities: Located in Endicott, New York, this former branch campus of Syracuse University, founded in 1946, became SUNY Harpur College in 1950 and later moved across the Susquehanna River to Vestal and became the State University of New York at Binghamton. It is now called Binghamton University.
Utica: Located in Utica, New York and also founded in 1946, UC was founded as a branch campus for returning WWII veterans. This campus remained part of Syracuse University until 1995. Utica College still offers degrees conferred by Syracuse University and continues to have a very similar academic structure. It is officially mentioned in SU's Charter's Article 1, Section 3: "Utica College shall be represented by the President, appointed ex officio, and by the dean of the college, and another representative selected by the college."
Thompson Road: In 1947, Syracuse University acquired a portion of the former US Naval War Plant on Thompson Road in East Syracuse. The L.C. Smith College of Applied Science was relocated to the Thompson Road campus, and the University's relatively short-lived Institute for Industrial Research was also located there. The University sold the property to Carrier Corporation in 1952.
[edit] Libraries
Syracuse University's main library is the Ernest S. Bird Library, which opened in 1971. Its seven levels contain 2.3 million books, 11,500 periodicals, 45,000 linear feet (13.71 linear kilometers) of manuscripts, and 3.6 million microforms. It also has a state-of-the-art cafe on the main level that opened in early 2008.
Prior to Bird Library's opening, the Carnegie Library served as the main library. It was opened in 1907, and now contains the mathematics and science libraries, as well as several classrooms. It was funded by a $150,000 matching gift by Andrew Carnegie. It replaced the library in what is now the Tolley Administration Building. Several other departments also have their own libraries.
[edit] Special collections
Many of the landmarks in the history of recorded communication between people are in the university's collection, from cuneiform tablets and papyri to several codices dating from the 11th century, to the invention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Ben Jonson, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Malthus, Jeremy Bentham and Goethe among others. In addition, the collection includes the personal library of Leopold Von Ranke. Making sensational headlines at the time, the university had outbid the Prussian government for all 19 tons of Von Ranke's prized personal library which put Syracuse on the bibliothecal map. Other collections of note include Rudyard Kipling first editions and an original second leaf of the Gutenberg Bible.
The university also has a large audio archive. Holdings total approximately 340,000 recordings in all formats, primarily cylinders, discs and magnetic tapes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and Oscar Wilde.
[edit] Art collection
SU has an impressive permanent art collection of over 45,000 objects from artists such as Picasso, Rembrandt, Hopper, Tiffany and Wyeth. Art lovers can enjoy seeing more than 100 important paintings, sculptures and murals displayed in public places around campus. Notable sculptures on campus include Anna Hyatt Huntington's Diana, Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington, Antoine Bourdelle's Herakles, James Earle Fraser's Lincoln, Malvina Hoffman's The Struggle of Elemental Man and Ivan Mestrovic's Moses, Job and Supplicant Persephone. SUART Galleries
[edit] Historic Buildings
Four sets of buildings on the campus have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These are: the Comstock Tract Buildings, Crouse Memorial College, the Hall of Languages, and the Pi Chapter House of Psi Upsilon Fraternity.
[edit] Organization
[edit] School of Architecture
The Syracuse University School of Architecture, founded in 1873, is the fourth oldest program of its type in the United States and is traditionally located in Slocum Hall- a building completed in 1918 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Bachelor of Architecture program is ranked third nationally and number one on the East Coast , according to the 2007 survey of the Design Futures Council.
[edit] College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences, was established in 1870 as Syracuse University's founding college. Today, The College remains at the center of undergraduate learning at Syracuse, where all University students take classes. It includes 3,400 students and 530 faculty in a university of 12,500 total undergraduate students and 1,360 total faculty.
[edit] School of Education
Syracuse University's School of Education, founded in 1906, a national leader in improving and informing educational practice for diverse communities, is committed to the principle that diverse learning communities create the conditions that both enrich the educational experience and provide opportunities for all to realize their full potential. The School of Education pioneered the inclusion movement in the United States, making way for all learners to participate fully in mainstream classrooms and other inclusive learning environments. In addition to its Undergraduate Program, the School has several unique Graduate Programs, including Programs in Higher Education, Cultural Foundations of Education, and Instructional Design and Development.
[edit] L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science
The L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, founded in 1901, offers 35 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs. U.S. News & World Report ranks the overall graduate program in ECS in the top third of schools of engineering that grant degrees through the Ph.D.
In 1958, the Institute for Sensory Research was established under the direction of Dr. Jozef Zwislocki (now Distinguished Research Professor of Neuroscience and a member of the National Academy of Sciences), who developed a community of faculty, staff, and students that is world-renowned for multidisciplinary studies of the structure and function of sensory systems. From this community, the undergraduate program in bioengineering was established in 1971. Carl Rozenswieg is the University's current dean and administration. ECS's computer engineering and bioengineering programs, both established in 1971, are the second-oldest programs of their kind in the nation.
The Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering was created in 1984 under the leadership of Dr. Bradley J. Strait, professor of electrical engineering who served as dean of the college from 1981-1984 and 1989-1992. The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, an interdisciplinary center for high performance computing followed in 1987, and the Center for Hypersonics, supported by NASA to focus on studies in air and space travel, was created in 1993. Among its recent achievements, the College unveiled a $4.5 million environmental systems complex in Fall 2001. This facility provides sophisticated research and teaching facilities for programs in environmental, chemical, civil, and mechanical engineering programs.
In May 2001, a consortium of colleges and universities, led by the College, was awarded $15.9 million by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Research to fund the establishment of the New York Environmental Quality Systems Center at Syracuse University. Also in 2001, the College received a $3 million grant from NASA and the State of New York to establish the Advanced Interactive Discovery Environment for Engineering Education, a state-of-the-art virtual learning environment.
[edit] School of Information Studies
The Syracuse School of Information Studies, is a leading center for innovative programs in information management, information policy, information science, information systems, information technology, and information services. The School of Information Studies offers professional degree programs at the undergraduate and master's levels as well as a research degree at the doctoral level. The School of Information Studies traces its origin to 1896, with the first library science course offerings at Syracuse University.
The American Library Association accredited the degree in 1908, while the program was still part of the College of Liberal Arts and an independent School of Library Science was established in 1915. Anticipating the coming of the information age, and recognizing libraries as part of a broader information landscape, the faculty renamed the school in 1974. Educating students for a variety of careers in the information economy, the school offered the country's first master's degree in information resources management (1980), and later began a graduate program in telecommunications and network management (1993).
Today the School of Information Studies's graduate programs are highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report: #1 for Information Systems, #2 for Digital Librarianship, #3 for Library and Information Science, and #4 for School Library Media [21]. The School has also helped University of Mysore, India, to set up the International School of Information Management (ISiM).
[edit] Martin J. Whitman School of Management
The original College of Business Administration was founded in 1919. The school was renamed to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management in 2003, in honor of SU alumnus and benefactor Martin J. Whitman. The school is home to an average of 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students each year.
A new state-of-the-art building for the Whitman School of Management was opened in January of 2005. Covering 160,000 square feet, the new building includes 22 state-of-the-art classrooms, 40 undergraduate graduate breakout rooms, a 200-seat auditorium, a three-story, a 4,000-square-foot Grand Hall, an Investment Research Center, and a cafe.
The undergraduate program is currently ranked #41 among business schools nationwide by the US News & World Report 2008. The school offers several fields of study, including: accounting, finance, marketing, supply chain management, entrepreneurship, and retail management. The entrepreneurship program is ranked #9 by the US News & World Report 2008, and #13 by both the Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review 2007. The supply chain management program was ranked #10 in the nation by Supply Chain Management Review. Also, the Joseph I. Lubin School of Accounting was named #10 in the nation by The Chronicle of Higher Education [22].
[edit] College of Law
Founded in 1895, the College of Law is one of only four law schools in Upstate New York (the other three being Albany, Buffalo, and Cornell). It was accredited by the American Bar Association in 1923 and is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools. As of the 2007-2008 academic year, 675 students were enrolled in the College of Law.
The College of law has been ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News and World Report for its trial and appellate advocacy program and is an emerging leader in the relatively novel field of National Security Law. In addition, the law school is one of the few privileged law schools that edits an official American Bar Association publication, The Labor Lawyer. The College of Law is home to the New York State Science & Technology Law Center and the New York Prosecutors Training Institute. It also maintains a chapter of the prestigious Order of the Coif, of which only 80 of the more than 190 ABA accredited law schools are a member of.
The law school offers joint degree programs with, among others, the top-ranked Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the highly regarded S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. It offers a special first year program in international law and summer internship/externship opportunities in London, Amsterdam, and Geneva. Students may also qualify for specialized certifications in such areas of study as Corporate Law, Estate Planning, Family Law, and Property Law.
The College of Law is located on the edge of the Syracuse University Hill adjacent to the Carrier Dome in Ernest I. White and Winifred MacNaughton Halls. Its library is called the H. Douglas Barclay Law Library. The library is a congressionally designated depository for federal materials and also houses a collection of former Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson's artifacts and documents.
[edit] Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, founded in 1924, was the first school to offer a graduate professional degree in public administration and the first to bring together the social sciences for public administration education. Maxwell is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the nation's top graduate school for public affairs[23].
[edit] S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University established one of the nation's first schools of journalism, now known as the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, in 1934. Newhouse alumni include Ted Koppel, Steve Kroft, Bob Costas, Fred Silverman, Marv Albert, Matt Park, Len Berman, Mike Tirico, Maria Sansone, Pete Yorn, Mark Tinker, Matt Singer, and many other distinguished alumni.
[edit] College of Visual and Performing Arts
Founded in 1873, VPA contains the School of Art and Design, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Department of Drama, Setnor School of Music, and Department of Transmedia. Together, these five areas offer a total of 36 undergraduate programs and 26 graduate programs. The college is located in seven different buildings on campus and in the University’s downtown Syracuse building, the Warehouse. Origins of the college date to 1873, when the College of Fine Arts opened at SU. The college was the first degree-conferring institution of its kind in the United States. Its first alumnus graduated in 1875 with a bachelor of painting degree.
[edit] Graduate School
Founded in 1911, the Syracuse University Graduate School oversees all academic policy, graduate degree and certificate program modification and development, and the professional development programs for graduate study at Syracuse University.
[edit] College of Human Ecology
Founded in 1918, the former College of Human Services and Health Professions offers bachelor's (B.S.), master's (M.A., M.S.W.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Social Work, Child and Family Studies, Hospitality and Food Service Management, Marriage and Family Therapy, Health and Wellness, Nutrition, Sport Management and Selected Studies, as well as a certificate of advanced study in Human Services Management.
On December 6, 2007, the college took on an identity change, changing the name of the school from the College of Human Services and Health Professions to the College of Human Ecology. [3]
[edit] University College (Continuing Education)
University College offers a variety of degree programs, certificates, and noncredit courses in formats tailored to the busy schedules of part-time students. Courses are offered in the evenings, on weekends, online, and through short residency programs. During the summer, courses are offered during the daytime. In addition to serving the academic needs of students pursuing their degrees part-time, UC also offers award-winning workforce training programs and sponsors community service programs.
[edit] College of Medicine
Founded in 1872, the SU College of Medicine was (along with Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan) among the first to institute a graded medical instruction program, with definite pre-clinical and clinical years. In the 1890s it was again (along with Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Penn, and a few others) among the first in America to organize its curriculum according to the so-called "German model," with intense scientific and especially laboratory training for students in the first two years, and rigorous clinical training on rounds thereafter. The school was sold to the State of New York in 1950 and is now SUNY Upstate Medical University.
[edit] College of Environmental Science and Forestry
The College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), founded in 1922, operates its academic campus adjacent to Syracuse University. It was established as the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. The residential-life program for ESF students is operated by SU. ESF students live in SU housing, have full access to SU libraries, and students at both schools have full access to courses. Students take part in joint commencement exercises, and ESF students may participate in all SU student activities excepting NCAA sports.
[edit] SU Abroad
The university has offered multiple study abroad programs dating since 1911. SU Abroad, formerly known as the Division of International Programs Abroad (DIPA), currently offers programs in Beijing, Florence, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Strasbourg, Santiago, Berlin, and Istanbul. [24] SU Abroad offers a wide range of courses, often integrating coursework and fieldtrips with the host city.
Since 1959, SU Florence has been hosted in the Villa Rossa, a building constructed by a noble family, the Gigliucci, in 1892. The Villa Rossa houses the administrative offices, eleven classrooms, the computer lab, a student lounge and study areas. The garden area, recently renovated, is now connected to the garden of the Villino, home of the SU Florence library.[25] The Villino, which was built in 1884, covers 420 square meters on four floors. While the building serves primarily as the home of the library, it also houses an audio-visual room a faculty and TA lounge, and the media lab and slide library.
Established in 1975, SU’s London center is widely regarded as the city’s most comprehensive study abroad program. Faraday House was renovated to include new classrooms and faculty offices, an auditorium, student and faculty common rooms, a writing center, computer clusters, design and multimedia studios, and wireless Internet access.[26]
Students in the Madrid program choose from three pre-semester seminars ("Mare Nostrum," "Eurovision," and "Azahar"), in which they tour different countries throughout Europe. Following these two-week courses, the students return to Madrid, where they spend the remainder of the semester. Most students live with a Spanish host family. You can find Todd Kramer and Matt Galka running through discoteques naked.[27]
[edit] Student life
[edit] Athletics
Syracuse University's sports teams are officially known as the Orange, although the former (until 2004) names of Orangemen and Orangewomen are still affectionately used. The school's mascot is Otto the Orange. The teams all participate in NCAA Division I in the Big East Conference, except for the women's ice hockey team, at the College Hockey America, and the men's lacrosse team, which is independent. The men's and women's basketball teams, the football team, and both the men's and women's lacrosse teams play in the Carrier Dome. Other sports facilities are located at the nearby Manley Field House.
[edit] Archbold Stadium and the Carrier Dome
Thanks to a $600,000 gift by Syracuse University trustee and Standard Oil President, John D. Archbold, what was publicized as the “Greatest Athletic Arena in America” opened in 1907. Designed to resemble the Roman Coliseum and to never become outdated, Archbold Stadium became a trademark of Syracuse football. The stadium formed a massive oval, 670 feet (204 m) long and 475 feet (145 m) wide. It was 100 feet (30 m) longer and only 22 feet (7 m) thinner than the Carrier Dome and more than 6 million Orange football fans passed through its gates.
From 1907 to 1978, Archbold Stadium was the home of SU football. Archbold opened up with a bang when the Orange defeated Hobart 28-0. It went out in style 71 years later with an improbable victory over second-ranked Navy 20-17. Syracuse posted a record of 265-112-50 at Archbold and it housed many great teams. It was home of the 1913 squad who was invited to play in the prestigious Rose Bowl and outscored its opponents 331 to 16. The 1959 team also called Archbold home en route to SU’s only National Championship. The men's basketball team achieved their only national championship in 2003.
In 1978, SU fans said good-bye forever to the historic stadium. Archbold was demolished to make way for the new on-campus facility, the Carrier Dome, which opened in 1980. The Carrier Dome is the largest dome college stadium anywhere.[citation needed] The roof of the Dome is inflatable, with several air compressors working round the clock to maintain its structure. It has a seating capacity of 50,000. It is the only domed college stadium in the northeastern U.S..
[edit] Colgate Weekend
Football history at Syracuse was drastically altered in 1900, when Cornell University temporarily broke its athletic relationship with the university over concerns of violent behavior. In its stead, the games with Colgate University took on greater importance. Colgate weekend was "celebrated in conjunction with the fall football contest between the Orange and the Red Raiders...[and] featured the more sedate decorating contests and parades- as well as the scalping of captured underclassmen, the dumping of Orange paint into Hamilton's Taylor Lake and the retaliatory dumping of red paint onto cars outside Archbold, the stealing of the ATO cannon, and the decorations of the Saltine Warrior statute." [28] As the rivalry became heated, so did the chaos surrounding the event:
"In 1947, because so much damage was done to buildings, and because several students were hurt, Colgate, Cornell, and Syracuse negotiated the 'Cazenovia Pact' at the Lincklaen Inn in Cazenovia, New York. The administrators of those schools agreed to ban the use of paint, and damage to property and physical violence were outlawed."[29]
[edit] Rowing
Founded in 1873, the Men's heavyweight is one of the University's oldest and most prestigious athletics program. In 1959, Syracuse went on to represent the United States in the Pan American Games, where they beat the Canadian boat to take the world championship in the sport. Notable coaches to pass through Syracuse included legendary rowing pioneer James Ten Eyck, Ned Ten Eyck and Loren Schoel.
[edit] Fraternities and sororities
The Syracuse University fraternity and sorority system offers organizations under the Panhellenic Council, the Interfraternity Council, the Latino Greek Council, the National Multicultural Greek Council, and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
SU currently recognizes the following active IFC social fraternities on campus:
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The earliest fraternities chartered at the university were: Delta Kappa Epsilon (1871), Zeta Psi (1875), Psi Upsilon (1875), and Phi Kappa Psi(1884). In the early 20th century, other fraternities were chartered, including Phi Gamma Delta(1901), Sigma Chi (1904), Alpha Chi Rho (1905), Sigma Phi Epsilon (1905), Sigma Alpha Epsilon (1907), Delta Tau Delta (1910), Zeta Beta Tau (1911), Acacia (1911), Pi Kappa Alpha (1913), and Sigma Alpha Mu (1913). In the interwar years, new fraternities inlcluded Theta Chi (1928) and Phi Iota Alpha (1931). Post-WWII fraternities include Alpha Epsilon Pi (1947) (rechartered 2002), Alpha Tau Omega (1950), Tau Kappa Epsilon (1962), Delta Chi(1967), Phi Beta Sigma (1975), and Theta Nu Xi (2003).
SU currently recognizes the following active Panhellenic social sororities on campus:
The first sororities chartered at the university were Alpha Phi (1872), Gamma Phi Beta (1874), Kappa Alpha Theta (1889), Pi Beta Phi (1896), and Delta Delta Delta (1896). In the early 20th century, new sororities included Delta Gamma (1901), Alpha Xi Delta (1904), Alpha Chi Omega (1906), and Alpha Epsilon Phi (1919), and Phi Sigma Sigma (1927).
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The National Pan-Hellenic Council includes the following fraternities and sororities: |
The Latino Greek Council includes the following fraternities and sororities: |
The Multicultural Greek Council includes the following fraternities and sororities:
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[edit] Alma Mater
The SU Alma Mater was written by Junius W. Stevens (1895) in 1893 and is based on the then-popular song Annie Lisle. It was first sung under the title "Song of Syracuse" by the University Glee and Banjo Club on March 15, 1893. The song includes three verses, but only the first verse is commonly sung.
According to the 1997-1998 "Syracuse University Student Handbook," author Junius W. Stevens recalled "while I was walking home across the city an idea for the song came to me. I had often noticed how the setting sun lighted up the walls of Crouse College long after dusk had fallen over the city and valley. As I walked through the empty streets, the words of a song took shape in my mind. By the time I reached home, the song was finished."
Where the vale of Onondaga
Meets the eastern sky
Proudly stands our Alma Mater
On her hilltop high.
Flag we love! Orange! Float for aye-
Old Syracuse, o'er thee,
Loyal be thy sons and daughters
To thy memory.When the evening twilight deepens and the shadows fall,
Linger long the golden sunbeams on the western wall.
Flag we love, Orange,
Float for aye,
Old Syracuse o'er thee!
Loyal be thy sons and daughters
To thy memoryWhen the shades of life shall gather, dark the heart may be,
Still the ray of youth and love shall linger long o'er thee'.
Flag we love, Orange,
Float for aye,
Old Syracuse o'er thee!
Loyal be thy sons and daughters
To thy memory
The university also has a fight song entitled "Down the Field," commonly played after SU scores in athletic matches.
Down down the field goes old Syracuse
Just watch those backs hit the line and go thro'
Down down the field they go marching
Fighting for the Orange staunch and true
Rah rah rah!
Vict'ry's in sight for old Syracuse
Each loyal son knows he ne'er more will lose lose
So we'll fight, yes we'll fight and with all our might
For the glory of old Syracuse
[edit] Alumni
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 2006-2007 Enrollment
- ^ Syracuse University. International Association of Methodist Schools, Colleges, and Universities (IAMSCU). Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
- ^ Syracuse University: Government and Community Relations - University United Methodist Church. Syracuse University. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
- ^ United Methodist schools score high in rankings. The United Methodist Church. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
- ^ Chronology. Syracuse University. Retrieved on 2007-12-24.
- ^ W. Freeman Galpin, Syracuse University: The Pioneer Years (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,, 1952)
- ^ Gorney, Jeffrey, Syracuse University: an architectural guide (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006)
- ^ Greene, John Robert, The Hill: An Illustrated Biography of Syracuse University 1870-Present (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,2000 )
- ^ Gorney, Jeffrey, Syracuse University: an architectural guide (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006)
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Gorney, Jeffrey, Syracuse University: an architectural guide (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006)
- ^ Greene, John Robert, The Hill: An Illustrated Biography of Syracuse University 1870-Present (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,2000 )
- ^ Forbes, B. C. (1917). Men who are making America. New York: B.C. Forbes Pub. P.440
- ^ Greene, John Robert, Syracuse University: The Tolley Years 1942-1969 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,1996 )
- ^ Deppa, Joan, Media and Disasters: Pan Am 103; New York; University Press, 1994.
- ^ Yen, Marianne, "A Tragic End to the Semester." The Washington Post, December 23, 1988, page A07
- ^ [1]Map
- ^ SU News
- ^ [2]Rome Campus
- ^ School of Information Studies at Syracuse University ranks #1 in US News & World Report
- ^ Fast Facts: Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. syr.edu. Retrieved on 2007-12-22.
- ^ U.S. News and World Report Public Affairs Graduate School Rankings
- ^ SU Abroad - Your Place In The World
- ^ SU Abroad: Florence
- ^ SU Abroad: London
- ^ SU Abroad: Madrid
- ^ Greene, John Robert, The Hill: An Illustrated Biography of Syracuse University 1870-Present (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,2000 )
- ^ Greene, John Robert, Syracuse University: The Tolley Years 1942-1969 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,1996 )
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