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The Daily OrangeCantor breaks down 'Scholarship in Action'
In annual address, chancellor discusses progress on and off campus
By Amanda Allison
Posted: 3/19/08, 1:53 AM EST Section: News
The chancellor discussed further integration between the real world and the classroom -a main feature of the Scholarship in Action vision - in regard to the Cold Case Initiative that will investigate and conduct research on unsolved court cases for academic credit. This year saw the addition of the course "Investigating and Reopening Unsolved Civil Rights Era Murders," which was developed from a group of law students researching an unsolved Ku Klux Klan killing in 1964 in Louisiana.
"Scholarship in Action combines knowing and doing, teaching and discovery, as well as engagement," Cantor said, further helping to define the all-encompassing term. "Because the university's work is embedded in the work of the world, we must think about local-global resonances and take seriously the specificity of the local and the generality of the global."
During her April 2005 address, Cantor said she hoped that because of Scholarship in Action, in five and 10 years, SU would be celebrated as an entire university - not only by individual schools' success, but also as a place "where excellence is tested in the marketplace."
And after Tuesday's discussion, the SU community may have a better idea of what exactly it means to be a part of Scholarship in Action.
Ellen Beck, SU regional director of development for the West Coast, said Cantor has energized the entire university. "There exists increased engagement with the larger world, and this global expansion has enabled the student body to do so much more," she said.
David Farby, a freshman broadcast journalism major, finds the concept of Scholarship in Action powerful.
"It's taking current activities and what we learn here and implementing them off campus and in the world."
akalliso@syr.edu
"Scholarship in Action combines knowing and doing, teaching and discovery, as well as engagement," Cantor said, further helping to define the all-encompassing term. "Because the university's work is embedded in the work of the world, we must think about local-global resonances and take seriously the specificity of the local and the generality of the global."
During her April 2005 address, Cantor said she hoped that because of Scholarship in Action, in five and 10 years, SU would be celebrated as an entire university - not only by individual schools' success, but also as a place "where excellence is tested in the marketplace."
And after Tuesday's discussion, the SU community may have a better idea of what exactly it means to be a part of Scholarship in Action.
Ellen Beck, SU regional director of development for the West Coast, said Cantor has energized the entire university. "There exists increased engagement with the larger world, and this global expansion has enabled the student body to do so much more," she said.
David Farby, a freshman broadcast journalism major, finds the concept of Scholarship in Action powerful.
"It's taking current activities and what we learn here and implementing them off campus and in the world."
akalliso@syr.edu
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