Members from the YWCA organization pose in front of their van while holding a bin full of ’Cuse Collections donations.

The Office of Sustainability Management hosted ’Cuse Collections during the last week of the Spring 2024 semester to provide a convenient location for students to donate unwanted and gently used items before leaving for the summer. The office partnered with local nonprofits and charities to get the donated items into the hands of those in need, helping to reduce dumpster waste while assisting the local community.

“We are grateful to the Office of Sustainability Management for organizing this event,” said Lydia Montgomery, project manager at A Tiny Home for Good, a local Syracuse nonprofit. “As we work to build community and assist our tenants in creating homes, events like these support our mission for long-term supportive housing.”

Bedding, clothing, shoes, refrigerators, microwaves, household items and more were collected and donated. On-campus departments such as the Mary Ann Shaw Center helped to recruit volunteers. Student volunteers and peer-to-peer educators assisted donors and helped the organizations picking up donations.

In total, over 70 gray bins of items (equivalent to roughly half of an 18-wheel tractor trailer) were donated to 11 organizations, including the Rescue Mission, RISE, A Tiny Home for Good, Mary Nelson Youth Center, Catholic Charities, YWCA, InterFaith Works, Center for Justice Innovation, Huntington Family Center, Spanish Action League of Onondaga County and the Westside Family Resource Center.

“Catholic Charities was able to acquire much-needed clothing items from the event,” said Kerina Herard, program manager of emergency services for Catholic Charities of Onondaga County. “Every day, people come to our door at Cathedral Emergency Services in need of clothing. Thanks to ’Cuse Collections, we are better able to provide for them. This opportunity will make a significant impact on the lives of those we serve.”

Donations loaded into the Rescue Mission van.

Former Sheraton Hotel Donates Furniture

Community members loading items from the Sheraton Hotel onto a truck.

As ’Cuse Collections wrapped up for the semester, the former Sheraton Hotel was able to make a big contribution to the effort. As the hotel closed its doors after Commencement to prepare for its conversion into a 400-bed residence hall, the building’s 200 rooms were cleared of furniture, linens and bedding ahead of the start of construction. The hotel’s furniture was transferred to a local warehouse, where organizations could collect donated items. The response was overwhelming: TVs, mattresses and chairs were quickly reclaimed and given to those in need.

“Mattresses from the Sheraton Hotel will be steam cleaned and used in several of our housing sites,” says Montgomery. “Donations like these allow us to serve more people in the Central New York community.”

Sustainability Management plans to host ’Cuse Collections on an annual basis. For more information, visit the .

Warehouse full of people sorting miscellaneous items from the Sheraton Hotel such as televisions and refrigerators.

The 108 volunteers gathered on Feb. 23 at Skybarn on South Campus for a three-hour workshop to sand, drill and assemble wooden bunk beds. The group included 86 University students, 11 staff, faculty and retirees, plus 11 other members of the Syracuse chapter of (SHP).

Student volunteers work on drilling boards as part of the SHP bed assembly work. (Photos by Amelia Beamish)

SHP, whose mantra is “No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town,” is one of 270 chapters nationwide. The organization’s mission is to build and deliver new beds and bedding to children who may have been sleeping on a couch or the floor, and who, in many cases, have never had a bed of their own.

The Syracuse SHP group has partnered with the for Public and Community Service—the University’s hub for academic community engagement—for several years. Though the chapter has built and delivered 4,564 beds to Syracuse-area children since it began in 2018, 870 kids are still on the waitlist. SHP leaders say 76% of the beds built here will go to children who live within two miles of campus.

Friday’s event was organized by (SUVO) president ’25, a dual public relations and psychology major from Norwalk, Ohio. She says this is the first time in a decade that SUVO has initiated a large-scale volunteer project, and it’s one that seemed to resonate with everyone who heard about it.

“Hundreds of children in Syracuse are currently sleeping on the floor. We often take a bed for granted, but it can have such an impact on one’s overall physical and mental health,” Ceccoli says. “A bed is not something I’ve ever given a second thought. I crawl into my bed when I’m sick, need a safe place or want some alone time. SHP’s goal of providing children who need but don’t have that safe space is such a worthy mission that I’m humbled and honored to leverage student resources to help a community partner.”

In a different area, student volunteers sand boards.

advisors Karrie Catalino and Mackenzie Jackson encouraged Ceccoli to bring the bed-building initiative to campus. Planning began in September 2023. Ceccoli applied for Student Association funding and SUVO was awarded nearly $12,000 to cover the costs of all materials and bedding. Once SUVO started promoting the event, volunteers eagerly signed on, including Phanstiel Scholars, Our Time Has Come Scholars and Kessler Scholars. Others reached out, too, including the University’s Brighten a Day unit, the Construction Management Club and Jonathan French, associate teaching professor and undergraduate director in the chemistry department in the , Ceccoli says.

Past and Current Employees

Several current and retired University employees are involved as volunteers with SHP and have been instrumental in the local chapter’s efforts. In 2018, employees Jon Wright, now retired from , and Jeff Pitt ’91, director of information technology services at the College of Arts and Sciences, formed the chapter and still serve as its co-presidents. Back then, they approached Dave Hoalcraft ’85 to join them. A 36-year University employee who retired in 2021, Hoalcraft now volunteers as SHP’s shop manager and bed-building trainer.

SHP-Syracuse volunteers Dave Hoalcraft, left, a retired University employee and Jeff Pitt, right, a current employee, worked with SUVO president and student Claire Ceccoli to lead the project.

Pitt says he likes that SHP fulfills two needs in the community. “One is the obvious one of providing a warm, comfortable place to sleep for children in need. The second is subtler: providing an outlet for people who want to give back to the community but who don’t know how to get started.”

Hoalcraft says the group’s mission “was a direct bullseye for me [so] I jumped right in. I am ‘Forever Orange,’ so doing a bed build with students on campus means a lot to me. I get to help a lot of kind people build beds for children in our community and ultimately help get children their own beds. It is awesome that Syracuse University students give back directly to the children in the community where [the students] live.”

On-Campus Spark

This is the first time SHP has held a mobile bed build on campus, and Ceccoli thinks the location has been key to the success of the event. “I think it can sometimes be intimidating for students to get off campus,” she says. “SUVO is seeking to connect students to the community and to inspire them to volunteer by making this opportunity accessible. We hope they will continue beyond this event to help SHP build or deliver more beds.” SUVO plans to provide students with information about additional volunteer opportunities.

“This is a beautiful testament to the interest and passion Syracuse University students have for community engagement,” Ceccoli says. “I want to work in the nonprofit sector. This is so real for me and to think of the impact we’ll be making on these children’s lives and their families’ lives while amplifying SHP’s mission is wonderful. Quite literally, I’d do this for the rest of my life.”

Claire Ceccoli with Kathryn Bradford, Shaw Center employee and SUVO advisor

Kathryn Bradford ’06, Shaw Center administrative coordinator and SUVO advisor, says she is extremely proud of how Ceccoli used knowledge from her classes and her Shaw Center leadership development intern experience to take the project from idea to reality through diligence, passion and positivity. “Hopefully this experience will encourage more students to participate in community engagement as a continuing part of their educational experience and beyond,” Bradford says.

Are you engaged in a volunteer activity that is having an impact on the greater community? In upcoming editions of SU Today, we plan to profile some of our faculty, staff and students who are making the world a better place through community service. Please email internalcomms@syr.edu with your story.

This is the first time SHP has done a mobile bed build on the University campus. Student volunteers will build 40 beds from scratch in three hours with assistance from the organization’s members. The event is open to all students; students must register on .

“We often take a bed for granted, but it can have such an impact on one’s overall physical and mental health. This is an opportunity for Syracuse students to support the community right from campus. Please join us to learn valuable skills, strengthen community relationships and support such a worthy mission,” says Claire Ceccoli, president of SUVO.

SHP is a national nonprofit organization with the mission of “no kid sleeps on the floor in our town”; volunteers build, assemble and deliver bunk beds to children in need. The Syracuse chapter of SHP has already built and delivered 4,564 beds to the community. There is still a list of 870-plus applicants waiting for a bed in the area.

SHP build manager Dave Holcraft says, “I am very excited about teaming up with Syracuse University students on campus to build beds for children in our town who currently do not have a bed of their own. With help from groups like Syracuse University we can work toward our mission.”

As a student-driven event, supported by the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, SUVO members hope to strengthen engagement between the campus and community. By offering volunteering opportunities directly on campus, the goal is to inspire and empower students, encouraging them to sustain and strengthen community relationships beyond the event.

SUVO is optimistic that this collaboration with SHP will become an annual tradition, Ceccoli says.

Carla Ramirez

The grant from the for $700,000 will support the hiring of additional undergraduate students for tutor positions for the next two years. The University’s Literacy Corps tutors primarily work with elementary school students but also with middle and high school students at Syracuse City Schools, other Syracuse-area schools and at community organizations throughout Greater Syracuse, according to , Shaw Center assistant director and Syracuse University Literacy Corps program coordinator.

Students interested in participating can apply now through the end of January. Positions begin in February 2024. Those hired can continue the positions throughout their years at the University. In many cases, students can also use their work as community service hours to fulfill academic program requirements, Ramírez says.

How to Apply

Interested candidates may or through Career Services’ (job posting #8425846). Ramírez also encourages applicants to visit the Shaw Center at 111 Waverly Ave. in person to apply and to learn more about the role.

Reciprocal Value

The 25-year literacy partnership between the Shaw Center and the Syracuse City School District is based on the core principle that literacy provides a foundation for lifetime success, from schooling to employment to navigating life challenges such as maintaining wellness and accessing health care, says , associate vice president and Shaw Center director. The Cabrini Foundation grant is a recognition of the importance of the program and literacy skills in general and especially to maintaining health, she says.

While teachers report about an 88% improvement in classroom participation, behavior, attendance and literacy skill development for tutored students, the benefits go both ways. “The teachers are extremely pleased with the outcomes, and for a program to be consistently in place for this amount of time indicates its success and impact for both the community and the University,” Heintz says. “It also helps our students understand the challenges of doing community-based work and shows them how to have more consistent, effective, authentic relationships and partnerships.”

Shaw Center Fall 2023 semester tutors at their reading program orientation. (Photo by Carla Ramírez)

Ramírez affirms how tutors benefit from the experience. For many, she says, the community is reflective of home, and being involved here helps them feel a sense of belonging. “We tell our tutors that they’re not only helping and teaching students in the district but that this work provides learning opportunities for them, too. They are working on communication skills and building professional skills, but while they’re teaching, they’re also learning from the kids that they tutor.”

Katie McPeak ’24, a senior policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has been a Literacy Corps tutor since her first year at Syracuse. She has enjoyed all her tutoring work and especially likes helping older students with college preparation. “This has helped me develop my skills and I’ve become much more outgoing,” she says. “I think it’s very important to become engaged with the community you’re living in for four years while building your professional skills. This has been an amazing experience. Syracuse is a beautiful community and I think everyone should be really excited to get involved.”

Position Details

• Undergraduate students of all grades, majors, programs and colleges are welcome to apply.
• Applicants must be in good academic standing.
• Prior tutoring experience is not required; training is provided.
• Positions pay $15 per hour.
• Students must work eight to 10 hours a week in blocks of a minimum of three hours.
• Tutor transportation is provided by the Shaw Center’s shuttles.
• District teachers coordinate tutor classroom placements.
• Since Syracuse City School District students speak more than 70 languages, multilingual speakers are encouraged to apply.

Miranda Traudt

Traudt will provide operational and programming leadership for arts, humanities and community-focused academic initiatives at the University and within the Syracuse community to support faculty and student engagement. She will work closely with the Coalition of Museums and Art Centers, South Side and Community Initiatives, Light Work, the Shaw Center and various community partners and stakeholders.

Traudt is an experienced arts administrator and educator who has managed art centers and galleries in the region and has been responsible for multi-faceted arts programming. Most recently, she oversaw the curation, administration and promotion of arts and cultural initiatives at the State University of New York at Oswego, where she developed and implemented a shared vision for a comprehensive arts program serving campus and community audiences. At SUNY Oswego, she also spearheaded creation of the college’s first artist-in-residence program that focused on artistic engaging with issues of diversity, intersectionality, inclusion and belonging.

Previously at Syracuse University, she served four years as the managing director of Point of Contact. She also served as program director at Auburn’s Schweinfurth Art Center and has taught in the areas of arts management and museum studies and art history at several area colleges and universities.��

Traudt received a B.F.A. in the history of art and design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She earned two master’s degrees, one in museum studies and another in art history, from Syracuse University in 2011.

“We welcome Miranda back to the Syracuse University campus. We are excited to put her skills and knowledge to significant use in this integral role serving multiple arts, humanities and community relations arenas,” Haddix says. “She will be a wonderful asset to this office’s wide range of operations at the many important centers, art spaces and organizations we work with and with our campus and community stakeholders.”

Yung’s course asks student teams to develop real-world solutions to biomedical challenges, taking them from concept through prototype design. It can be a challenging environment.

“These are long projects, and students are working day in and day out,” says Yung. “But I began to notice my student teams were having a hard time with the collaboration and with concepts such as shared leadership and how to accommodate and adapt to other team members.”

Zoe Rennock

Adds Yung, “Having a partner to help me take a look at team dynamics would be awesome, and it would help with real needs in my teaching practice.”

In fall 2022 Yung got such a partner: Zoe Rennock ’24 a (SSE) student in the School of Education, whose focus area is “Schooling and Diversity.” The program that brings Yung and Rennock together is the (PIE), a initiative.

Happy Coincidence

PIE pairs faculty and students for a semesterlong exchange of perspectives on teaching, learning and inclusivity in a particular course. Faculty members sign up voluntarily and are paired with a student—often one from the SSE undergraduate degree program or the —who is not enrolled in the course.

“The Partnership for Inclusive Education was developed in summer 2020, in the wake of campus and national protests, such as #NotAgainSU and May 2020 unrest in the wake of the George Floyd murder,” says PIE Coordinator . “It’s a perfect complement to the diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) compliance initiatives all staff and faculty must participate in. PIE extends the DEIA focus over an entire semester, with one student collaborating with one faculty member on one course. The program contextualizes DEIA initiatives within a student-professor relationship that encourages respect, reciprocity, and shared responsibility.”

Willingham-McLain says that the program defines “inclusion” as being culturally responsive to all students. “We define it together—students and faculty—during our orientation,” she explains. “We ask, ‘What does inclusion mean broadly?’”

Responses include, “That all students are invited and supported in learning” and “That each student is respected as having a unique set of experiences.”

“For this program, inclusion means creating culturally responsive learning environments for all students at Syracuse by opening a systematic exchange of perspectives on teaching and learning,” says Willingham-McLain.

The relationship between PIE and the School of Education began in summer 2020. SSE undergraduates must complete more than 270 hours of applied learning experiences across campus and in the community, including internships and shadowing. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding these placements became a challenge for program coordinators Kathy Oscarlece and Professor .

“SSE needed placements, and we needed students. It was a happy coincidence,” says Willingham-McLain. A PIE internship can be an especially perfect fit for an SSE student going into K-12 or higher education. “It can be a plum internship because students get to pull back the curtain on faculty and discover how much they care about students and the depth of their concern.”

Classroom Dynamic

Rennock, a junior, started discussing how to fulfill her two semesters of internship credits with Kathy Oscarlece in spring 2021. “Kathy brought up the Partnership for Inclusive Education, and because my concentration is in Schooling and Diversity, it went perfectly hand-in-hand.”

Paired with Professor Yung for the fall 2022 semester, the two began meeting in August, to discuss what Rennock’s consulting role would be—to attend classes, observe project teams and communication among students, and give Yung recommendations for improvements.

“The main thing Professor Yung wanted help with was for each group to manage its teamwork and to include everyone in their discussions,” explains Rennock. “As the capstone course evolves into its second semester, group work can become unorganized and dynamics can become a little more tense.”

“In our teams of four there are naturally students who like to participate more,” observes Yung. “Leadership roles naturally emerge, but other students can feel muted and alienated. I might not be aware of this. But with Zoe observing, she can assess each team for who is and isn’t communicating. Then we can take action. For example, Zoe might send out material about shared leadership, or I might discuss teamwork best practices with everyone.”

Adds Rennock, “I brought what I learned from my education classes about including people and group dynamics, as well as how we support students with disabilities such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. I also learned a lot about project-based learning.”

Yung explains that Rennock helped with another classroom dynamic, the relationship between Yung’s teaching assistant and the class environment. “Zoe helped onboard my TA. He is new to the country and from a more lecture-based academic setting, so he was also new to the concept of student collaboration. Zoe noticed he was not fully comfortable at first. She is kind of like the connective tissue that helps the course run harmoniously, helping me to build trust among the student teams and among the leadership team.”

Stepping Up

PIE creates a unique space, says Willingham-McLain. “It’s where students and faculty think together about learning without grading or evaluating each other. There’s nothing else like this program on campus.” For students, PIE is an opportunity to “step up” their professionalism: “It’s on them to organize weekly meetings, observe classes, ask open-ended questions, and give feedback.”

The program is also an undergraduate research and publishing opportunity. For instance, in November 2022 SSE student Jingzhe (Jackson) Qi ’23 co-presented on PIE at an educational development conference in Seattle, Washington, while SSE alumna Madison Jakubowski ’22 co-presented “Creating and Sustaining a Student-Faculty Partnership for Inclusive Education” at Pedagogicon 2022.

Ultimately, Willingham-McLain says she loves the “nimbleness” of the program and deeply appreciates her partnerships with the School of Education and Shaw Center. “They have access to students, and I have access to professors,” she says. “I’m looking forward to the next push toward expanding this program and ways to incentivize more faculty to join.”

That enthusiasm is shared by Yung and Rennock. “It’s a great program,” says Yung. “I’ve been recommending it to my ECS colleagues and have even brought one of them on board.”

Adds Rennock, “I’d recommend that other professors do the program. When student consultants and faculty develop a good relationship, we can make change.”

As for how useful her PIE internship will be to her career, Rennock says she is thinking of teaching young children: “This experience can be used across grades, for teaching skills such as interpersonal communication and project-based learning.”

Learn more about the School of Education’s , or contact Timothy Findlay, assistant director of undergraduate admissions and recruitment, at twfindla@syr.edu or 315.443.4269.

The award was established to honor Syracuse University trustee and alumnus Robert Menschel ’51, H’91 and to perpetuate his commitment to the not-for-profit world by supporting undergraduate internships at nonprofit organizations.

Undergraduate students who have secured an internship with a nonprofit organization for the Spring 2022 semester are invited and encouraged to apply for the $1,500 award. To be considered, the applicant must be a matriculated student at Syracuse University in good standing and have an internship at a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that occurs during the spring semester for a minimum of eight weeks.

The deadline to submit is Friday, Feb. 18. Recipients will be notified by email in mid-March and funds will be released directly to student bursar accounts. A short reflection paper about the internship experience will be requested at the end of the semester and provided to the funder.

Eight students received the award in last year’s round of funding. They were:

• Chelsea Brown, a sophomore television, radio and film major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Fiver Children’s Foundation)
• Duda Carvalho, a sophomore in the School of Architecture (Yleana Leadership Foundation)
• Nicole Graine, a senior psychology and neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences (Vera House)
• Shiori Green, a senior in the School of Architecture (Otsego County Conservation Association)
• Nicole Huling ’21, College of Visual and Performing Arts (MercyWorks)
• Kiana Khoshnoud, a sophomore public relations major in the Newhouse School (Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy)
• Grace McCormick, a junior art history major in the College of Arts and Sciences and online journalism major in the Newhouse School (Everson Museum of Art)
• Regan Schutt ’21, College of Arts and Sciences (Youth Villages)

For more information on the award or the application cycle, contact the Shaw Center at 315.443.3051 or by email at ShawCenter@syr.edu.

In 2020-21, 16 student consultants and 19 faculty partners practiced the partnership principles of respect, reciprocity and shared responsibility for student-faculty dialogue. Faculty partners report spending about 10 hours per semester. Over the course of the project, student consultants drawn from the Shaw Center’s Syracuse University Literacy Corps and the Selected Studies in Education course devoted more than 1,850 hours to partnering with faculty from the College of Visual and Performing Arts, College of Arts and Sciences and College of Engineering and Computer Science. Twenty courses enrolling 1,891 students were included in partnerships.

In the first semester, students and faculty were deliberately paired to mix disciplines. In the second semester, the project piloted some partnerships with the student and faculty drawn from the same or similar fields, while avoiding the conflict of interest that might come from a future student-faculty relationship in the student’s course of study.

“We evaluated these partnerships along the way and at the end of the semester. Faculty told us that they received valuable input from the student consultants, who, for example, served as a sounding board for potential changes to communication and assignments, gave advice on conflict management in the classroom from a student perspective and helped tailor mid-course evaluations to target specific areas for improvement,” says Laurel Willingham-McLain, consulting faculty developer, who led the project through CTLE.��“Faculty members also learned how to spot anxiety in students and make changes to their interactions to allow their students time and space to express their questions and thoughts.”

Carla Ramirez of the Shaw Center is the advisor for student consultants. She says, “Through this experience, our student consultants learned about all of the work that faculty put into teaching and how much they value student feedback. They learned responsibility through their role as a dialogue partner and improved their communication skills through email and Zoom exchanges with faculty. As a result of these dialogues, faculty partners made changes to aspects of their courses. The student consultants were able to see both the faculty and student experience in each course and were proud that they were able to contribute to their partner’s understanding of potential barriers to student success.”

Past partnerships have explored student well-being, inclusivity, academic success, educator growth and student-faculty relations as a way to enhance the learning experience.

Faculty who are interested in collaborating with a student can learn more by emailing ctle@syr.edu. Students who are interested in being consultants and are looking for a rich reciprocal service learning experience should contact Carla Ramirez at ccramire@syr.edu.

The Shaw Center encourages and invites undergraduate students who have secured an internship with a nonprofit organization for summer 2021 to apply for this $2,500 award.

To be considered for the Robert B. Menschel Public Service Award, the applicant:

• must be a matriculated student, in good standing, enrolled at Syracuse University;
• have an internship at a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nongovernmental organization which occurs during summer 2021 for a minimum of eight weeks;
• submit all application materials before the deadline.

The deadline for applications is Friday, June 18, 2021. Download the application [PDF].

Recipients will be notified by email in early July and funds will be released directly to student bursar accounts in mid-July. A short reflection paper about the internship experience will be requested at the end of August to be provided to the funder.

With questions, please contact the Shaw Center at 315.443.3051 or via email.

CAPES is one of the awards that will be presented at the One University Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 23. The CAPES award recognizes two individual students—one undergraduate and one graduate.

First presented in 1992, the award grew out of an interest among students working with Syracuse University Students for the United Way to honor fellow students for their contributions to the community. The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship furthers that objective.

Nominations may be submitted using the��. Nominations must be limited to no more than two typed, double-spaced pages. Photographs may be included with the nomination form and additional information or attachments will be accepted.

Questions? Email��shawcenter@syr.edu.

CAPES is one of the awards that will be presented at the One University Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 23. The CAPES award recognizes two individual students—one undergraduate and one graduate.

First presented in 1992, the award grew out of an interest among students working with Syracuse University Students for the United Way to honor fellow students for their contributions to the community. The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship furthers that objective.

Nominations may be submitted using the . Nominations must be limited to no more than two typed, double-spaced pages. Photographs may be included with the nomination form and additional information or attachments will be accepted.

Questions? Email shawcenter@syr.edu.

In preparation for the renovation, teams from the divisions of Enrollment and the Student Experience and Business, Finance and Administrative Services have worked diligently to coordinate office relocations and expand services currently within Schine Student Center.

Here is where you can find offices and services once the planned renovation begins:

• The Office of Multicultural Affairs and Disability Cultural Center will relocate to 548 Bird Library. They join the LGBT Resource Center, which moved to this accessible, central location this spring.
• The Office of Student Activities and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs will relocate to Suite 100 in the Women’s Building.
• The Office of Parent and Family Services will reloate to 306 Steele Hall.
• Schine Box Office will relocate to Suite 118/119 in the Women’s Building.
• Learning Communities and Student Centers and Programming Services will relocate to Suite 138 in the Women’s Building.
• Career Services will relocate to Suite 214 in the Women’s Building.
• The Shaw Center for Public and Community Service and the Office of First-Year and Transfer Programs will relocate to Suite 309/310 in the Women’s Building.
• will enhance staffing and add popular menu items at nearby Pages Café and food.com. Come fall, Kimmel Food Court will open earlier to accommodate breakfast and lunch. All Schine Food Services staff will be reassigned to other locations on campus.
• Reservable meeting rooms and event spaces will be available in Bird Library, Skybarn, Goldstein Student Center (South Campus), and other campus locations.

The Syracuse University Bookstore and Goldstein Auditorium will remain open throughout the renovation. Accessible entrances��will be located from��the Einhorn Family Walk and from the East entry between Goldstein Auditorium and the Bookstore. The Einhorn Family Walk entry will serve the Bookstore and the East entry between Goldstein Auditorium and the Bookstore will serve Goldstein Auditorium. This accessible path starts at Waverly Avenue.

Updates with additional information about relocations and services will follow throughout the remainder of the semester.

The CAPES award recognizes two students—one undergraduate and one graduate—who have significantly engaged in their community as part of a dynamic learning experience. The honor is one of the awards that will be presented at the One University Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 12, at 4 p.m.

Syracuse University is committed to promoting opportunities that can create positive change in the community, while advancing knowledge and increasing interconnectedness—and CAPES recognizes those students who are helping to create that change, says Pamela Kirwin Heintz, associate vice president, director of the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, and co-chair of the selection committee.

“We are looking for engagement that has been impactful, has demonstrated the student’s leadership abilities and has furthered them academically,” Heintz says. “It could be a course or another way of engaging with the community that has been a focused, sustained commitment over their time at Syracuse University.”

To broaden the scope of the award, Chancellor Kent Syverud has appointed two additional representatives to the CAPES selection committee this year: Bea González, vice president for community engagement, special assistant to the Chancellor and co-chair of the committee, and Brian Konkol, dean of Hendricks Chapel.

“The CAPES award is a wonderful opportunity to highlight the connections our students are making with the community and the tremendous scholarship that takes place through these connections,” González says. “We want to continue to build on its success to include additional community engagement touch points and Hendricks Chapel in establishing a sustainable foundation for the long-term growth of the CAPES program.”

First presented in 1992, the award grew out of an interest among students working with Syracuse University Students for the United Way to honor fellow students for their contributions to the community. The CAPES award furthers that objective.

Nominations may be submitted to the CAPES or via hard copy form. Questions may be directed to shawcenter@syr.edu.

Hard copy forms may be obtained at and submitted to the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, 237 Schine Center. Nominations must be limited to no more than two (2) typed double-spaced pages, or to the space on the nomination form. Please label each page with the nominee’s name. Photographs may be included with the nomination form, and additional information or attachments will be accepted.

Members of the selection committee are the following:

• Charles W. Beach ’58, G’67, University Life Trustee
• Colleen Cicotta, associate director for initiatives, Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service
• Simone Girma, a senior majoring in television, radio and film and citizenship and civic engagement in the Newhouse School, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Maxwell School
• Bea González, vice president for community engagement and special assistant to the Chancellor (co-chair)
• Pamela Kirwin Heintz, associate vice president, director of the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service (co-chair)
• Briyana Henry, a junior majoring in social work in the Falk College, member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program and an Our Time Has Come Scholar
• Brian Konkol, dean of Hendricks Chapel
• Sarah Redmore, associate director for community engagement, Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service

About Syracuse University

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Members of the Syracuse University campus community are invited to submit nominations for the 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship. The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 10.

The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship (CAPES) is one of the awards that will be presented at the One University Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 25. The CAPES award has been updated this year to recognize two individual students, one undergraduate and one graduate.

The two categories of the award are the following: One undergraduate and one graduate who have significantly engaged in their community as part of a dynamic learning experience. Syracuse University embraces this commitment to promote positive change that simultaneously advances knowledge and meets real-world needs, magnifying impact and interconnectedness.

First presented in 1992, the award grew out of an interest among students working with Syracuse University Students for the United Way to honor fellow students for their contributions to the community. The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship furthers that objective.

Nominations may be submitted or via hardcopy form. If you have any questions, please email shawcenter@syr.edu.

Hardcopy forms may be obtained at and submitted to the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service at 237 Schine Center. Nominations must be limited to no more than two (2) typed double-spaced pages, or to the space on the nomination form. Please label each page with the nominee’s name. Photographs may be included with the nomination form, and additional information or attachments will be accepted.