Veterans partner with School of Information Studies
A new agreement will allow soldiers from the U.S. Army Signal Center School of Information Technology on Fort Gordon, Ga., to transfer credits to Syracuse University starting in January. Those credits can be applied to two master’s programs in the School of Information Studies.
The agreement allows soldiers to transfer nine to 15 credits toward a master’s degree in information management or telecommunications and network management at SU. It also allows active soldiers who are stationed throughout the United States and overseas to complete the master’s degree requirements through online courses.
Officers from Fort Gordon came to SU on Oct. 30, for an agreement signing ceremony with iSchool Dean Elizabeth Liddy and Eric Spina, the vice chancellor and provost.
Gen. Jeffrey Foley, commanding officer of the Signal Center, said the center shares a similar mission with SU.
‘At Fort Gordon, we’re certainly interested in pursuing world-class education. Our professional military education for young soldiers, for warrant officers, for non-commissioned officers and officers is something we are perhaps the most proud of in the army,’ Foley said at the ceremony, which was held in room 347 of Hinds Hall.
‘I can feel the patriotism in this university and in this campus,’ Foley said. ‘There’s a long history of Syracuse support to those who serve in our nation.We’re just continuing that today.’
U.S. Army Maj. Jonathan Hughes, a Signal Center officer who is currently enrolled in the iSchool’s information management master’s program, said his experience at the iSchool has benefitted and added to the education he received at the Signal Center.
‘I found that the information management program here at Syracuse University offers an outstanding educational opportunity that very nicely complements the training I received down at Fort Gordon,’ Hughes said.
Liddy, dean of the iSchool, said she was happy to extend the communications between SU and Fort Gordon.
‘We see this as an increasingly rich and extensive relationship between Syracuse University and the broader community in the U.S. Army Signal Center School of Information Technology at Fort Gordon,’ Liddy said.
SU has participated in programs that benefit the armed forces, such as the Yellow Ribbon Program, Spina said.
The Yellow Ribbon Program, a part of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, allows private universities in the United States to voluntarily fund veterans’ tuition expenses that exceed the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Web site.
SU also has an entrepreneurship program for disabled veterans and a defense comptrollership program between the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the U.S. Department ofDefense.
‘This is a university that really does have a rich history and deep commitment to our armed forces,’ Spina said, ‘and more specifically to the men and women who serve in our armed forces.’
Published on November 10, 2009 at 12:00 pm
