The Center's staff and associates include educators, human services professionals, people with disabilities, graduate students, and family members of children and youths with disabilities. CSTL staff consult, coordinate, and provide direct services to help our instructors enhance their overall performance and contribution. Our goal within the School of Education is to create an atmosphere of reflective teaching with an emphasis upon improvement. The Study Council at Syracuse University is a membership organization of more than 130 Central New York school districts. Benefits also include a wide range of dissemination products authored by the Council and recognized education experts, plus considerable discounts on professional development programs statewide and nationally through Council memberships in the Study Council Alliance of New York State and the New England School Development Council.
Center specializes in library and information science and educational technology.
The variety of resources within the Clearinghouse assists professors and students by making available the most recent publications within given academic areas. This year round program is based within the Syracuse City Schools for the school year and exposes LPP students to college campuses and enrichment activities in the summer. Most of the teaching events that the Training Institute conducts deal with themes relevant to all types of human services to all types of people - especially those who are devalued by society. The Training Institute's programs are primarily aimed at people who are, and who aspire to be, leaders and change agents in human services. The institute trains human service professionals on an individual basis, but it also consults, evaluates and makes recommendations to agencies that want to improve their performance.