October 10, 2019

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SU students witnessed a meeting of North Korean and South Korean diplomats at the 2019 Global Peace Forum on Korea at Columbia University. Page 3

Moderate columnist Kailey Norusis argues that a professor’s essay supporting student-faculty relationships “mansplains feminism to feminists.” Page 5

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After almost a year since its inception, Syracuse’s I Support the Girls chapter has donated $500 worth of menstrual hygiene products for people in need. Page 7

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Eric Coley first doubted himself after committing to Syracuse football. But now in his third year, he’s emerged as a key defensive back in the Orange’s secondary. Page 12

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Students say SU’s counseling services don’t meet their needs By Gillian Follett asst. copy editor

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ia Matthews began using Syracuse University’s counseling services in April to see a therapist weekly. Therapy helped her find a balance between her mental health and academic responsibilities. But her therapist recently told her that she was leaving SU. Matthews isn’t sure if she’ll be able to see a new therapist on a regular basis for future appointments. “For someone like me, who personally deals with childhood trauma and depression, I don’t feel like explaining my situation to a new person every time I go (to therapy),” said Matthews, a sophomore studying citizenship and civic engagement and writing and rhetoric. Matthews and other SU students said in interviews with The Daily Orange that the university’s counseling services aren’t adequately meeting their mental health needs. During the summer, SU relocated its counseling services from Walnut Place to the Barnes Center at The Arch. The move was intended see counseling page 4

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SU developing online programs following national trend By India Miraglia and Richard J Chang the daily orange

Syracuse University continues to develop its own online programming, following a national trend in which online education is on the rise in secondary education. Nationwide, overall enrollment in college has decreased, while online enrollment has increased. Colleges in the United States saw a 4.2% increase in students enrolled exclusively online and a 6.4% increase in those enrolled in some online courses between 2016 and

2017, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Universities need to incorporate online education programs into their curriculum to stay relevant and sustainable beyond the next decade, said Michael Frasciello, dean of SU’s University College. Students are requesting flexibility in courses as they become involved in other time-consuming, extracurricular activities, such as community service. Online classes provide that flexibility, he said. “The future of higher education is a blended experience of residential, in-class instruction and online

or virtual instruction,” Frasciello said. “Twenty-five years from now, full-time students living in Haven Hall will be attending Syracuse University and receiving education in both face-to-face physical and online as full-time students.” Total enrollment across the country decreased by 0.4%, and the number of students enrolled in college without any online courses decreased by 3%. At SU, students have the opportunity to earn a degree in 19 online master’s programs, six online undergraduate programs and five online certificates of advanced study.

The university has been careful about creating the online courses and degrees it offers graduate and undergraduate students in order to ensure they equal the quality of on-campus classes, Frasciello said. Because of that, the university is only recently implementing many of its online classes. “We could move real quickly and put a whole bunch of stuff online. But that’s not what Syracuse University is about,” Frasciello said. “While it may appear we’re moving rapidly relative to the rest of higher education and specifically to our peer set, we’re actually not. We’re

moving much more deliberately.” SU’s peer institutions vary on the number of online programs offered. Pennsylvania State University’s World Campus, for example, offers 55 online master’s programs. Boston University offers 18 online graduate programs, and the University of Connecticut eCampus offers eight. The value of an online course compared to one in a classroom depends on the design of the course, said Alyssa Wise, an associate professor of learning sciences and educational technology at New York University. Well-executed online courses see online page 4


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