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Enforcement of the federal gender-equity law is essentially toothless, mired in red tape and delays as aggrieved students wait years for relief.

SU receives grants to digitize Oakwood Cemetery, Latinx community records Micaela Warren | Staff Photographer The grants come as SU Libraries faces its own battle to preserve rare materials in its Special Collections Research Center. Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. A pair of state grants will enable Syracuse University professors and staff to digitize valuable records pertaining to Oakwood Cemetery and Syracuse’s Latino community.  The grants, awarded by the Central New York Libraries Resource Council, will support two projects: converting decades-old death and burial records fo...

IRE announces winners of 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Award The New York Times’ groundbreaking coronavirus tracking project took first place in the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Awards. Other top awards go to investigations that uncovered how deeply race and income determine causes of death in Massachusetts and how qualified immunity impacts excessive force cases against police. “In this difficult year, journalists and news organizations stepped up to fill the void of important information for the public,” said Sarah Cohen, a contest judge and the Knight Chair in Data Journalism at the W...