Innovation is offering courses to our troops in Desert Storm. At Syracuse, innovation is a way of life, the natural outgrowth of fertile minds and creative spirits. It is the willingness to face obstacles with an eye to solutions. It is the constant flow of ideas across disciplines, across offices, across the University community. Virtually every academic program on this campus offers opportunities for students and faculty to practically apply knowledge to real-world needs.
Extracurricular programs are avenues for service in a wide variety of ways.
Service, at Syracuse, is a Maxwell School program in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging to conduct cross national studies of aging issues and social policy. Service is Syracuse's students, faculty, and staff cooperating with city officials in a Spanish language project where Latino teens teach police, fire and other public employees basic language skills to enable them to better serve their constituencies. Service is the College for Human Development's groundbreaking field training program providing food and nutrition services to Syracuse's vulnerable populations. Service is the conscientious work conducted by the members of faculty of the School of Social Work and the College of Nursing in assisting Onondaga County in reducing infant mortality and improving access to health care. Service is the College of Nursing joining forces with the Loretto Geriatric Center to create a teaching nursing home to advance the quality of care for patients and to provide valuable experience for students.