Department News
For Students: Five Ways to Stay Connected to Your Academic, Personal Support Teams
By Brooke Tyszka, Academic Counselor, Falk Student Services Brooke Tyszka Taking classes from home might feel overwhelming, but even though you are not on campus, your support teams are still available and fully dedicated to helping you! Here are my top five recommendations for staying connected to your academic and personal supports while you are home: 1. The Center for Learning and Student Succe…
Department of Marriage and Family Therapy statement on COVID-19
Interpersonal stressors tend to increase during uncertain times such as the one we are experiencing now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At a time when we are social distancing and self-isolating, we may not have access to familiar ways of coping. We are facing a challenging time of disruptions and abrupt transitions without knowing when this will end. Some of us may also be in situations where a fam…
Food Busters Receives a 2020 Orange Circle Award
Food Busters Food Busters, a nutrition program in the Shaw Center, is among the 2020 Orange Circle Award winners. Other winners include Lisa Gordon G’90, president and chief executive officer of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, Marcelle Haddix, chair of reading and language arts and a dean’s professor in the School of Education, and student organizations Black Reign Step Team and a Hand for Wuhan. Fo…
Alumna connects social work and law for her career change to child welfare
Deborah Gardiner ’10 MSW, ’10 JD Social worker and attorney Deborah Gardiner ’10 MSW, ’10 JD says she was impressed by the Syracuse University social work students she supervised for family defense field placements at the Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society in Syracuse. “I have seen my students sit patiently with clients while they are experiencing the worst crises of their lives. These moments are…
2020 HDFS Student Awards
Our award-winning students make us all proud! We are excited to recognize the work of our top undergraduate and graduate students, and it is important to us that these high-achieving students not only understand their worth within our department and Syracuse University but also their great value to our communities and our world. We are training the next generation of world changers. The HDFS Stude…
Honoring our high-achieving students
The Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) is proud of its many high-achieving students, students who are active in research, scholarship, and community building. We are pleased to announce the following HDFS students who have been recognized by our department as achieving the honor roll based on a GPA of 3.4 or above: Halimeh Abdel-Aziz Jennifer Ball Madison R. Barton Alyssa No…
Mother of four finds her place in Social Work
Years after dropping out of high school, Chevon Janczuk, finds her place at Syracuse University with a 3.9 GPA and a commitment to social justice. When 29-year-old Syracuse University student Chevon Janczuk does her homework, she frequently has a few helpers. Her daughter Faith, 9, showed so much interest in her mother’s statistics calculations that Janczuk started teaching her the formulas. “It m…
Public health in action: Applied epidemiology students host coronavirus community forum
When Syracuse University announced on March 10 that its academic residential programs would move to online course delivery in response to the coronavirus global crisis (COVID-19), graduate students in a Falk College applied epidemiology class were finalizing details for an already-planned public forum that evening. The idea for the Department of Public Health-sponsored coronavirus forum came out o…
Syracuse University, CNY Care Collaborative, Inc. Launch Care Coordination Certificate Program
An enhanced training program, funded by the Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) and developed by Falk College’s School of Social Work in partnership with the CNY Regional Planning Consortium (RPC), and other state and local stakeholders, will benefit frontline workers who play a critical role in the state’s efforts to integrate patient care services. Proposed by the CNY RPC in late 2018 an…
Supporting students with intellectual and developmental disabilities through InclusiveU
Through InclusiveU, students with intellectual and developmental disabilities can be part of a strong community, taking advantage of opportunities across campus while learning to be independent. As one of 20 model programs in the United States for transition and postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities, Syracuse University’s InclusiveU sets an example other programs want…