Scholarship in Action for a New Generation
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Syracuse University delivered an enlightening presentation entitled "Scholarship in Action for a New Generation" at the AERA 2012 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. She called for institutions of higher education to break with tradition and take up the model of collaboration and educational opportunity. "We must dismantle the the cradle -to-prison pipeline that drains life and hope away from so many of our communities. In its place, we must build a cradle-to-college pathway, a two-way street to innovation and full participation", she emphasized.
Cantor proceeded to lay out the various steps needed to advance this goal and relayed the success of one such effort in Syracuse, New York. She focused on the need for schools to: become centers of communities; transition from the role of experts to one of partners; intertwine full participation and innovation; build collaborative infrastructures; create a two-way street of participation; and transform practices as well as communities.
In great detail, she showed how this approach transformed the relationship between a university and a neighboring community in Syracuse, leading to the empowerment and growth of the community, and the beginning of a collaborative and transformational role for the university.
Time: Monday, April 16, 4:05 p.m.–5:35 p.m.
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Centre, First Level - West Ballroom C
Session Participants:
Chair: William T. Trent (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Participant: Nancy Cantor (Syracuse University)