Education is actually far more than a social infrastructure system—for it to operate as such it is underpinned by the other kinds of infrastructure . . .
Read MoreStudents: Geography’s Best Ambassadors
(Photo: Geography 491–Senior Seminar in Geography, Syracuse University, Class of 2015, Fall 2014. Photograph by Joe Stoll.) Geographers frequently face the challenge of explaining to people outside the discipline what it is that they actually do. In the way? The Principal Products of Peru and the States and Capitals. You know. The belief that Geography is the rote memorization of facts associated with places. Or, that it's about having…
Read MoreSITETL Day 1
It is June and the weather is glorious here in Syracuse. We've waited so long for this. It was a "long, cold lonely winter." But the need to keep retooling for what happens on campus between September and May doesn't necessarily stop for truly fine weather. This week, 18 SU faculty–from recently arrived assistant professors to long-Orange full professors–are participating in the Summer Institute for Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning…
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