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Syracuse is starting construction on bike lanes along three streets near SU. The work comes a year after bike lanes were installed on Euclid Avenue. Page 3
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Joel White left the SU men’s lacrosse program as an all-time great. The sport has since taken his career across the globe, while White tries to grow the game. Page 12
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Percentage of tenure- Former ambassador Martin Indyk track faculty drops discusses Middle East relations By India Miraglia asst. news editor
Syracuse University’s number of tenured or tenure-track professors shrank to 51% of the university’s total faculty in 2018. The drop has created concern that the low number of tenured faculty could affect the university’s standing and reputation as a research institution. At a University Senate meeting in March, Senator Matt Huber presented a report on the 2017-18 faculty census. SU’s tenured or tenure-track population dropped from 52% in 2017 to 51% in 2018, he said. Senators at the meeting said that decreasing the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty could call SU’s research designation into question. Tenure is an academic appointment that can only end under extraordinary circumstances. It’s meant to safeguard academic freedom, such as freedom to speak or publish research findings, according to the American Association of University Professors. The rest of the university faculty in 2018 was made up of 15% full time non-tenure track professors and 34% part time or adjunct faculty, who are also non-tenure track, Huber said. Full time non-tenured faculty include teaching professor positions and professors of practice, he said. Crystal Bartolovich, an associate professor of English and senator, was one of the faculty at the March Senate meeting who raised worries about the effects of SU’s shrinking population of tenured and tenure-track faculty. Bartolovich said in an email that she’s concerned that SU has fewer tenured and tenure-track faculty compared to other research universities. Duke University has 62% tenured and tenure-track faculty, Georgetown University has 61% and Cornell University has 80%, according to data from those universities. Laurel Morton, president of the part-time faculty union Adjuncts United, said SU does not give reductions in course load for part-time faculty interested in pursuing research.
Instead, those faculty have to participate in research on their own time. “It doesn’t mean they’re not as research-focused, but it has not been facilitated by the institution,” said Morton, who is also a senator on the Senate’s Women’s Concerns Committee. SU first received an R1 designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in 2015, and it retained that designation in 2018. An R1 designation is the highest research level possible as awarded by Carnegie. Duke, Georgetown and Cornell all have the R1 designation. At the March Senate meeting, John Liu, vice president for research, said most of the R1 schools have faculties with about 60% tenure or tenure-track faculty. SU’s 2018 tenured and tenure-track ratio shows that the university it not keeping up with its peers, Huber said. Liu said at the meeting that he did not know how the drop in tenured or tenure-tracked faculty would affect SU’s R1 designation. Liu was not made available for an interview with The Daily Orange. “There’s been a lot of talk about Syracuse wanting to be this really important R1 institution,” Huber said. “Well, you gotta kind of put your money where your mouth is in that front.” Bartolovich said tenured and tenure-track faculty split their time between teaching, service and research, which gives them a unique relationship to the university. Nontenured faculty, though, have a more “precarious” position in the university and are often compensated less for their services, which changes their relationship to SU as a research institution, she said. With the university’s added emphasis on undergraduate research, the number of tenured faculty who can oversee that research should be increasing, Bartolovich said. In January, Chancellor Kent Syverud announced that SU will see faculty page 4
PROFESSOR JIM STEINBERG (LEFT) AND MARTIN INDYK, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, discuss Indyk’s career working with countries in the Middle East. katie tsai asst. photo editor
War between Israel and surrounding Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. Indyk, witnessing the war as a 24-year-old student, said he had an epiphany while Former United States ambassador to Israel Martin watching the two sides fight in Jerusalem. Indyk visited Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday night to “I became convinced that my purpose was to try to discuss his career working as a foreign somehow make peace in the Middle diplomat and where he sees the U.S.’ East,” he said. relations in the Middle East today. Twelve years later, after he earned Indyk previously served as execuhis Ph.D., and after he worked for the I became convinced pro-Israel American Israel Public tive vice president of the Brookings Institution and as U.S. special envoy that my purpose was Affairs Committee, Indyk founded to for Israeli-Palestinian negotiaWashington Institute for Near to try to somehow the tions from July 2013 to June 2014. East Policy think tank dedicated to The talk, co-sponsored by the make peace in the U.S. policy in the Middle East. Maxwell School of Citizenship and While working in Washington, Middle East. Public Affairs and WAER, was modthen-Sen. Bill Clinton approached erated by Jim Steinberg, a profesIndyk and asked if he would like to Martin Indyk former u.s. ambassador sor of social science, international work on his campaign, Indyk said. He to israel affairs and law. Indyk was the third soon became Clinton’s adviser on the and final speaker in the university’s Middle East during his campaign, spring 2019 University Lecture series. and when Clinton won, he became a special assistant Indyk said his interest in the Middle East began to the president. in October 1973, in the middle of the Yom Kippur He remembered thinking that it was like “destiny” By Gabe Stern
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city
Dana Balter announces 2020 campaign for congressional seat By Mary Catalfamo senior staff writer
Standing in front of a room full of supporters, Dana Balter announced that she would run again for representative of New York’s 24th Congressional District on Tuesday evening. BALTER Balter, a former
Syracuse University visiting assistant teaching professor, lost her first campaign for the House of Representatives to three-time incumbent Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) last November. The 24th Congressional District includes Onondaga County, as well as all of Cayuga and Wayne Counties and some of Oswego County. “It’s time to f lip the 24th and give central and western New York the representation it deserves,” Balter said. “And that’s why I’m standing with you
It’s time to flip the 24th and give central and western New York the representation it deserves. Dana Balter congressional candidate
tonight to announce my candidacy for Congress.” Balter said that her younger brother — who has disabilities — serves as her inspiration for running. Her brother Jonathan showed her the value of advocacy at a young age, she said. “He taught me that we’re stronger when everyone is included,” Balter said. “So, I’ve spent my life pushing our society toward that goal.” After her first campaign, Balter started a nonpartisan orga-
nization that focuses on civic engagement, and she worked in special education with a nonprofit that supported adults with cognitive disabilities. She also earned her Ph.D. and taught at SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Balter lost her first run for Congress in 2018, earning 47% of the vote versus Katko’s 53%. Balter said in her speech on Tuesday that she aimed to run an inclusive
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