Syracuse University

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who
exemplify SU's commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in
Action with the 2009 Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship at
a celebration dinner today (March 23) at 5:15 p.m. in the Hildegarde and J. Myer
Schine Student Center's Goldstein Auditorium.

SU students, faculty and staff engage in tens of thousands of hours of community-
based work in partnership with the Syracuse community, the region and the world.
Public scholarship is done through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and
Community Service (CPCS), as well as many other SU/community partnerships and
programs.

"Every year when I read the nominations and prepare for the Chancellor's event, I
continue to be struck by the depth and breadth of the kinds of projects and activities
SU students are doing," says Pamela Kirwin Heintz, associate vice president for
engagement in the Division of Academic Affairs and director of CPCS. "We have
fantastic students at SU who value their role as engaged citizens, making significant
commitments and contributions to their communities, whether here in Syracuse or on
the other side of the world. And the wonder of it all is that I know these projects and
activities enhance our students' learning as they begin to see the world through the
eyes of their community partners. What a win-win for us all."

This year's honorees include:

Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship

Residence Hall Awards

• DellPlain/Butterfield Hall Council-Students have been involved in a
  number of initiatives and programs, including raising money for breast cancer
  and suicide prevention awareness, sponsoring a blood drive and hosting
  Halloween trick-or-treating for Syracuse children.
  

  
  

• South Campus Organization for Programming Excellence
  (S.C.O.P.E.)-This organization creates small- and large-scale volunteer and
  community engagement initiatives to build and sustain a sense of community
  among South Campus residents. One of their new programs, 'CuseCares,
  pairs local sixth-grade students with South Campus residents through a pen-
  pal progam.
  

Student Organization Awards (These awards are for recognized student groups.)

• Engineers Without Borders (EWB)-Formed at SU in 2006, this
  organization works on sustainable engineering projects in developing
  communities and countries. The group is currently partnering with Into
  Abba's Arms, an orphanage in Kenya, to redesign the facility with an
  emphasis on clean indoor air quality.
  

  
  

• National Association of Black Accountants-This organization takes part
  in community activities and institutional engagement and promotes
  inclusiveness on campus.
  

Student Organization Award-Honorable Mention

• Conflict Management Center (Maxwell School)-Student volunteers
  received training, which they then put to work in co-facilitating sessions in
  CNY Speaks, a citizen engagement project.
  

Student Group Award (This award is for groups of students who came together
informally around issues or interests, but are not formally recognized as student
organizations.)

• BOOST (Bolstering Original Opportunity and Self through
  Technology creates self-reliance in women by teaching participants from the
  local community basic technical skills to assist them in the workforce or in
  starting their own business.
  
  

  
  

• The GED Tutoring Group works with inmates at the Auburn Correctional
  Facility to help them study for their GEDs.

Special Civic Engagement Award

• Protestant Campus Ministry has been involved in an ongoing basis in the
  rebuilding of New Orleans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in
  2005.
  

  
  

• SU-ESF Habitat for Humanity is one of the top five Habitat campus
  chapters in the country. This year, the chapter fully funded and constructed a
  home in Syracuse and sent students to Louisiana and other areas around the
  country to build more homes.

Academic Service Learning Awards-Course/Project/Programs

• (ADD 440): Ad Design Research Problems (College of Visual and
  Performing Arts)-Students immersed themselves in an image and
  recruitment campaign for the Syracuse Police Department.
  

  
  

• (EEE 630)-Urban Farm Greenhouse Project (Martin J. Whitman School
  of Management)-Working collaboratively with other schools on campus,
  students formulated designs for an urban greenhouse, as well as financial
  plans and ways to integrate emerging technologies into a holistic plan.
  

  
  

• Goldring Arts Journalists (S.I. Newhouse School of Public
  Communications)-Master's degree students identified, researched, wrote
  and edited stories of Syracuse for an arts and culture special section in The
  Post-Standard and produced a multimedia program for the newspaper's
  website.
  

  
  

• (HTW 302): "Influencing Healthy Behavior" (College of Human
  Ecology)-Working with the Amaus Healthy Services Clinic at Cathedral,
  students collected food, shoes, hats, mittens, clothing and personal care items
  for socially vulnerable individuals.
  

  
  

• (HTW 307): "Culturally Competent Healthcare" (College of Human
  Ecology)-This course enables students to evaluate the effects of cultural
  differences, traditions, values, beliefs of various ethnic groups and how
  cultural norms influence healthcare, its delivery, access and health outcomes.
  

  
  

• (WRT 205): "Critical Research" (College of Arts and Sciences)-Students
  formed a collaboration with participants in Enable's Day Habilitation
  Program and created a journal that depicted the emotions and thoughts of the
  participants as they theatrically transformed into the idol and role model of
  their choosing.

Academic Service Learning-Individual