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Some college students and recent graduates are hopeful that President Joe Biden might promote federal student debt forgiveness.
But economics and political science professors at Syracuse University, Biden’s alma mater, are uncertain not just about whether Biden will be able to enact student loan forgiveness but also if it’s the right step for the country’s post-pandemic economic recovery.
“The argument for completely forgiving (student) debt, or the argument for this policy of forgiveness being a real economic tool, decreases post-pandemic,” said Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, a professor of economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
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At the beginning of the fall 2020 semester, Shiu-Kai Chin gave his class a choice most Syracuse University students don’t have: how he should manage their data.
Chin, a professor of electrical engineering who specializes in cybersecurity, wanted to know how his class would like him to store the assignments uploaded to their shared Google Drive, including to whom the assignments are visible and how long they would remain online.
“The (settings) are set now so that only the class can see it, which is what the class wanted,” Chin said. “Of course, that’s only as good as the person who has the authority to change the settings, which is me.”
Syverud announces diversity and inclusion plan in winter message
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Syracuse University will implement a university-wide strategic plan for diversity and inclusion this semester, Chancellor Kent Syverud announced in his 2021 winter message.
The plan will entail a review of current infrastructure, including former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s external review of the Department of Public Safety and other projects. The plan will address discrimination and accessibility for students and employees with disabilities, Syverud said.
Amanda Finney and her ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in Biden press office
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Amanda Finney caught the “political bug” after interning in the White House during the summer of 2010.
Nearly 11 years later, Finney, a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, has returned to the White House to begin her role as President Joe Biden’s chief of staff for the press office and special assistant to the press secretary.
Joe Biden’s Syracuse law school professor: ‘This guy will do what is right’
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Tom Maroney says he felt a mix of emotions today as he watched his former student at Syracuse University’s law school take the oath of office to serve as president of the United States.
Maroney, 82, was a first-year professor at SU when Joe Biden, a third-year law student, took his “legislation” class in 1968.
Biden earned an “A” in the class and has since disclosed it was the only one that he received at SU’s College of Law.
“I’m very proud of him,” Maroney said after watching the inauguration on TV from his home in Manlius.