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feb. 8, 2018 high 23°, low 12°
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N • Lead concerns
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MUSEUM GUIDE
City residents voiced concerns about lead poisoning Wednesday during a Common Council meeting for a proposed code enforcement law. Page 3
TAKING CHARGE
See insert for Lacrosse Guide 2018
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university politics
Women SU faculty earn, on average, less than men. Many said they were
UNSURPRISED By Jordan Muller
“this isn’t something new”
“people expected this result”
“we’re working with finite resources”
“we all knew it”
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lexandra Kostakis, a professor of entrepreneurial practice in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, was unsurprised to learn that women faculty earned less on average than men at Syracuse University. And she wasn’t alone. “I don’t think I was surprised at all by it,” said Yvonne Smith, an assistant professor in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. “Honestly, my reaction was that I was not surprised at all,” said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a professor in the School of Information Studies. “Disappointed, but not surprised,” said Lindsay Harkema, an assistant teaching professor in the School of Architecture. “I’m not surprised at all,” said Brad Gorham, an associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. “I’m not surprised by the findings,” said Tina Nabatchi, an associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. There’s a gender wage gap across all of academia, faculty said. It’s been previously reported at SU. It’s present in the industries faculty worked in before they became educators. “We all knew it,” Kostakis said. “This isn’t something new. Everyone in the world sort of knows this.” A 2017 faculty salary report, compiled by a University Senate committee tasked with determining whether salary trends were equitable and competitive in the past four years, revealed in December that women professors at SU earned less on average than men. The gender wage gap existed university-wide, the report found, and f luctuated in severity
“just the way of the world”
“disappointed”
Interim official appointed By Sam Ogozalek news editor
Syracuse University’s ADA coordinator, Aaron Hodukavich, left his position at the university Friday to take a new job, SU confirmed Wednesday night. I n f or m at ion on Hodukavich’s departure was not released by MYHILL SU campus-wide before The Daily Orange requested confirmation about his position Wednesday afternoon. Hodukavich was also director of the university’s Office of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services. SU confirmed that William N. Myhill has been appointed as the university’s interim ADA coordinator in a press release sent to The Daily Orange on Wednesday night. As part of his role at SU, Hodukavich coordinated the university’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal and state laws and regulations related to people with disabilities. see appointment page 6
on campus
“it’s been happening for decades now”
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graphic illustration by kateri gemperlein-schirm design editor
Advising program detailed By Madeleine Davison staff writer
Syracuse University plans to implement a new career advising model partially funded by a $100 million academic initiative and hire new career advisers in the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Visual and Performing Arts, among other schools. This new program, which Chancellor Kent Syverud announced in a speech last month, will include the hiring of additional career advisers and life coaches in certain SU schools and colleges, matching them to students in respective majors, said Amanda Nicholson, SU’s assistant provost and dean of student success. Nicholson said she expects the program to reach full capacity by 2019. Her first priority is to hire new career advisers for the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of see advising page 6