Syracuse University reaches out to Chicago-area high schools

As an alumnus of both Syracuse University and Naperville North High School, I was excited to begin my new role as Syracuse's Chicagoland Representative. At a ground level, I was excited to share my experiences at Syracuse University with students who had similar high school settings.

Trading One Love for Another

I went to Syracuse “undecided.” When I was in high school, my father asked what I was going to study in college, and I said I wanted to study business. And he said, “Well, if you're going to study business, you're not going to go to college.

The Best of The Rest

When I was a junior in high school, I took the SATs and I went to my guidance counselor for advice about where to go to college. He recommended a list of schools that I might be interested in.

It Started up on Mount Olympus

Recently I read a really interesting book called Mr g. It's a fictional novel about the concept of God, written by Alan Lightman. After reading it, I had this feeling that I used to have every time I left my favorite class at Syracuse University.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Alumni Experiences - Rachel Alexandria Vicente - Teaching America

5:46 AM David Edelstein No comments

Rachel Vicente is a recent graduate of Syracuse (2012) and will be coming to Chicago soon to work in the public school system as a result of her Teach for America placement. Rachel, who hails from the Boston area, is the youngest of five siblings. She even has a brother and a sister who attended SU.She did not choose SU because her sister and brother attended. Initially, she did not want to follow in their footsteps. However, she wanted to study pre-med, and she was very impressed with the program that Syracuse offered. SU also provided the best financial aid package. While at Syracuse, she worked in the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service her freshman year. She also worked with the Literacy Corps, a mentoring/tutoring...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Alumni Experiences - Mark Blane

4:32 PM David Edelstein No comments

Recently, I had an opportunity to catch up with Syracuse alum Mark Blane.  He talked a little bit about his new play and the inspiration behind it.  Mark has been working on The Rock and the Ripe for about three years.  “I didn’t know I was working on it for three years because it’s been something that’s been developing in my mind for a while” he said.  He talked about how during his junior year at SU he took a course called Queer Kids, Straight Schools.  It was a queer sexuality class, and he ended up doing a lot of research in the Syracuse school district by going into schools and talking to teachers.  Mark explained: “I was learning a lot about gay/straight alliances and how certain teachers perceived...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Syracuse University in Chicago & DC - Orange Beginnings

12:31 PM David Edelstein No comments

Brandies: I’m Brandies Dunagan, a social media specialist here at i.c.stars. I’d just like to take a moment to introduce Mr. Dave Edelstein. He’s the chair of the Chicago region for Syracuse, and we also have Anthony Noble, he’s the head of the Syracuse efforts in DC. So I’d like to start out with a question just to find out a little more about you. Dave, can you tell us a little more about your background and the year that you commenced from Syracuse? Dave: Sure, I’d be happy to. I am a graduate of Syracuse University’s class of 1978, where I earned a Bachelor of Science in a field called Systems and Information Science from the School of Computer Science, a lot of science in that. Along the way I had different positions in computer...
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