Syracuse University

Syracuse University will postpone the start of its spring semester by two weeks in order to reduce the impact of an expected post-holiday surge in COVID-19 cases, university officials announced. The semester will start Feb. 8 and end May 21, Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud said Monday. “Starting our semester two weeks later best positions us to resume residential instruction in…

Syracuse University is investigating a professor who allegedly referred to the coronavirus as the “Wuhan flu,” on a syllabus, and has placed him on administrative leave

Syracuse University has suspended 23 students in the wake of a large on-campus gathering that administrators say could force them to shut down the campus

Syracuse University says it handed out nearly two dozen suspensions to students who gathered in large groups at the school’s Quad on Wednesday. Videos posted to social media show groups of young students mingling and running away when the school’s Department of Public Safety officers arrived to disperse the crowd. The university said 23 students were given interim suspensions...

A study by The Hechinger Report found that many colleges and universities were already facing downturns in enrollment, retention, tuition revenue and state appropriations before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the school year. Senior editor Sarah Butrymowicz joined LX news to discuss how this added financial stress could change higher education post-pandemic.

The former attorney general under President Barack Obama has been hired by Syracuse University to investigate the campus security police

A series of biased incidents set off protests at the end of last semester and students have led to the decision to suspend and remove those responsible for hateful graffiti

Police at Syracuse University have made an arrest after a series of new graffiti markings were discovered on campus — but authorities say the woman taken into custody made them in support of ongoing school protests over a spate of recent bias incidents, law enforcement and school officials said Thursday.

Following a meeting with Syracuse students on Wednesday, where many of them stormed out and called for the chancellor’s resignation, Chancellor Kent Syverud released a statement saying he has agreed to 16 of 19 recommendations made by student protesters. Katherine Creag reports.

Even as the latest reported incident involving a white supremacist manifest was found to be hoax, many Syracuse students and alums are upset at what has happened at the school recently, and how administration has handled it all. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

Kevin Richardson’s dream of attending Syracuse University came to a sudden end when he and four friends were convicted of a rape in Central Park they never committed. Now, he has accepted the school’s invitation to visit and lend his name to a scholarship.

The images of children crying after their parents were arrested in a massive immigration raid in Mississippi revived a longstanding complaint: Unauthorized workers are jailed or deported, while the managers and business owners who profit from their labor often go unprosecuted. Under President Donald Trump, the number of business owners and managers who face criminal charges for employing unauthorized workers...

The fall TV season officially kicks off next week and even avant-garde streaming platforms, which release ambitious shows nonstop, are part of the traditional September hoopla once owned by broadcast networks.

The president of Temple University’s suspended Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity was arrested Tuesday after being accused of attempted rape.

Five students are suing Syracuse University for disciplinary actions related to videos of a private event where fraternity members used racial slurs and simulated a sexual assault of a disabled person.

Syracuse University expelled a fraternity over an offensive video that members say was intended as satire, but the controversy is continuing with the emergence of more video simulating a sexual assault of a disabled person.

Syracuse University permanently expelled a fraternity over an offensive video that fraternity members say was intended as satire.

University police said they’ve gotten “multiple credible reports” of alleged misconduct including sexual assault.

A fraternity suspended at Syracuse University over an offensive video said in an apologetic statement on Friday that the activities were intended as a “satirical sketch” depicting an uneducated, intolerant person.

Protesters at Syracuse University have demanded that the school release video showing racist and sexist behavior by members of a now-suspended fraternity.