Syracuse University’s Scholarship in Action

SYRACUSE University is driven by its vision, Scholarship in Action—a commitment to forging bold, imaginative, reciprocal, and sustained engagements with our many constituent communities, local as well as global.

Fundamentally, this positions SU as a public good, a hub of entrepreneurship that plays an integral role in today’s knowledge-based, global society by leveraging a precious commodity—intellectual capital—with partners from all sectors of public, private, and non-profit economies. Each partner brings its strengths to the table, where collectively we address the most pressing problems facing our community. In doing so, we invariably find that the challenges we face locally resonate globally.
the challenges we face locally resonate globally.
Scholarship in Action requires faculty who are superb scholars and great mentors; students who are from diverse backgrounds and who are entrepreneurial in spirit; and engagement points in the world where these teachers and students can test their ideas in collaboration with others, see the global implications of local issues, and catalyze transformational discovery.

We seek students who are ready to dive right in to this energetic, engaged way of learning—students who are ready to stretch their comfort zones and to prepare for the world by immersing themselves in the world.