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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
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Still, some students and faculty have remained unsure of their meaning.
Tuesday afternoon, Chancellor Nancy Cantor revealed the current state of the initiative in what serves as a sort of State of the Union in regard to SU accomplishments on campus and around the globe.
Speaking to a packed Hendricks Chapel, Cantor had 40 minutes worth of faculty and student accomplishments to back up and further explain the broad plans of "engaging the world" that she first laid out for the campus in 2005.
In Cantor's inaugural year in 2005, she explained it was her "vision…for building the creative campus." It was her goal to shape the faculty, students and programs.
Cantor initially described the program as "reinforcing engagement with the world by sustaining a presence in the community, across the nation and around the globe." Since then, she has attempted to bring the world to the SU campus and to send its students off the Hill, out into the world. This idea - sharing culture and knowledge - was the focus of her speech Tuesday, titled "The Two-Way Street of Scholarship in Action."
Within the first 10 minutes of the afternoon's address, two students were honored with having achieved both academic excellence and real world experience in their fields -with getting off the SU campus and succeeding. Cantor said she has even spent the last month outside Syracuse - in Los Angeles and New York City - spreading her vision of global engagement of Scholarship in Action.
"We've had the chance to highlight the remarkable work our faculty and students are doing," Cantor said, of sharing her Scholarship in Action program with others.
She listed a broad range of projects and campus additions that will live up to her idea of a global collaboration. Included is the arrival of eight Michelangelo works never seen in the United States, scheduled to be brought to the SU campus in August.
The effort to bring the works to campus displays the vision of "engaging with the world through the lens of history and with a telescope on the future," Cantor said.
"That integration is as important today as it was for Michelangelo in the tumultuous times of the Medici," she said.
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