Dear Orange Friends:
One thing you can’t help notice when you spend time on this campus is that a lot of our students work. I don’t mean work on their studies and extracurricular activities and teams and schools—they do that in abundance, of course. I mean that they have part-time jobs, work-study jobs, and community service activities in which they volunteer, and they have businesses.
My best information is that, during any semester, approximately 9,000 students work at part-time and work-study jobs, and many others are involved with a business. Many do this in part to support their education. At least 70 percent of our students participate in community service. Our students are almost everywhere keeping the University and this community going—in the residence and dining halls, in athletics and the Dome, in offices and libraries, in programs from our Institute for Veterans and Military Families to our Biomaterials Institute and to the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service. Off campus, students work with start-ups, with our local schools, with nonprofits, and with a stunning array of programs providing service in our communities.
I am proud of Syracuse University students for doing this. It is not easy. It requires time management skills and occasional loss of sleep. But the results are obvious to anyone who spends time interacting with Syracuse students. Because of all they do, they stack up well against those at any school. They are getting prepared, across all their activities, including their work, to lead every part of our world.
Chancellor Kent Syverud