Campus & Community Engagement

Campus Partnerships

The Intergroup Dialogue Program is located in the School of Education. The project has received funding and support through the Chancellor’s Initiative Fund, the Office of Academic Affairs, and the Division of Student Affairs.

Our program is strengthened through cross-university collaboration including:

Community Partnerships

The Intergroup Dialogue Program has also collaborated with local high school teachers, students, and schools on within-school and across-school dialogue-based initiatives including:

  • “Raising Our Voices,” a cross-school institute on the university campus
  • Spotlighting Justice, a participatory youth collaborative with 10th grade students
  • Lit Arts, an after-school program centering art-based social justice education and dialogue to support youth public engagement.

Programs

Engaged BIPOC Scholar-Practitioner Program

The School of Education offers a program for BIPOC doctoral students and collaborators to create community, build and sustain support, and inform institutional change.

The program, started in 2021, has been co-sponsored through the School of Education, Intergroup Dialogue, and Syracuse University’s Graduate School, Office of People and Culture, and Hendricks Chapel.

For more information, visit our Engaged BIPOC Scholars webpage or contact engagedBIPOC@syr.edu.

Politics of the Body: Fatphobia and Body Talk: New co-curricular dialogue

This co-curricular initiative explores topics related to fatness and fatphobia. The focus of the dialogue is to unpack our relationship to/with fatness and explore how fatphobia, in connection to various other systems of oppression, has caused harm to ourselves and others. This dialogue is open to folks of all sizes, with a focus on centering the experiences of those who identify as fat.

Politics of the Body: Fatphobia and Body Talk is supported by Intergroup Dialogue and funded through the School of Education’s Joan N. Burstyn Collaborative Research grant. The dialogue is co-facilitated by Atiya McGhee, Ph.D. student in Cultural Foundations of Education, and Linzy Andre, Ph.D. candidate in Counseling and Counselor Education.

CNY Educators of Color Dialogue

A partnership between The Study Council and Intergroup Dialogue Program, facilitated by Professor Courtney Mauldin and CFE doctoral student and Intergroup Dialogue facilitator Easton Davis.

Transformative Dialogue with Syracuse Law Student Leaders

Syracuse University College of Law student leaders are invited to Transformative Dialogue, a 5-week co-curricular dialogue developed in partnership with Intergroup Dialogue.

This dialogue brings together a committed group of second- and third year law students to share and explore lived experiences of social identities, socialization, intersectionality, power and privilege, systemic racism, critical issues in our current educational and national landscape/climate, and collective actions.

This Transformative Dialogue is co-facilitated by College of Law Professor Suzette Melende and Intergroup Dialogue facilitator and teaching assistant Easton Davis, a doctoral student in the School of Education. We are excited to partner together on this important initiative, with these dynamic students, at this urgent time for recognizing and naming systemic inequities while building strong and constructive community for change.

Dialogue with the Land; Dialogue with Each Other

This Co-Curricular Dialogue, in partnership with the Native Student Program, brings together Black, Indigenous, and Students of Color with BIPOC community members to reflect on the importance of land/other-than-human beings as partners in the practice of dialogue and building relationships.

In this space, participants ask questions about how understandings of and relations to bodies of lands and waters can often reflect colonial constructs of bodies of humans in order to imagine justice-oriented futures, cultivate communities of care, and find healing reprieve in the land.

Drawing on Indigenous epistemology and pedagogy, Indigenous land pedagogy, and Intergroup Dialogue research and practice, dialogue sessions are facilitated by doctoral candidate Ionah Scully (Cree-Metis, Michel First Nation), who brings in accessible, land-based activity and journaling prompts for participants to engage in between each session.

Scully’s work was awarded the New York Public Humanities Grant (2021), which has expanded this dialogue to include more community-based journaling sessions in continued partnership with both the Intergroup Dialogue and the Native Student programs.

Homebase BIPOC Dialogues

Co-facilitated by Easton Davis, Ph.D. Student, and Bushra Naqi, Public Relations major in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, this new co-curricular initiative is designed as a healing, restorative space to explore emotions, cultural expressions, and knowledge-making processes in relation to the body.

This is a five-week, co-curricular series developed in partnership . During the series, students engage in grounding techniques and art-based activities.

CNY Teachers of Color Dialogues

The Study Council and the Intergroup Dialogue Program partner to offer educators of color in Central New York an opportunity to participate in the development of a supportive online community facilitated by Professor Courtney Mauldin, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership in the Teaching and Leadership, and Easton Davis, Ph.D. student.

The series is an intentional healing space to welcome educators together in a space wherein participants can engage in difficult conversations and practice healing justice.

Participants receive a welcome kit and mentor text on behalf of the Syracuse University Study Council and Intergroup Dialogue Programs.

Learn more about the Teachers of Color Dialogues.