August 2018

Dear Newhouse Student:

Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.

As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined your degree requirements and the School Rules and Regulations in this handbook. You are responsible for knowing these requirements.

We don’t expect you to digest all the requirements at once. You should focus at the outset on the Skills and Divisional Requirements . We will be reviewing the rest of the materials in advising sessions this fall. Some of the requirements described here may sound familiar to you since they were included in much less detail in the directions for your first-term enrollment this summer. Even if they sound familiar, please review these requirements once more.

You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Associate and Assistant Deans for Student Affairs, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.

You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 315-443-4722).

One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under Advising Services on your SU portal. While you are required to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, you can see your adviser at any time during the semester throughout your four years. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.

In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Dean’s Office, the Department offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under Advising Services on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may call or email him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.

As a junior or a senior, you will not be required to see your adviser for registration purposes, although you certainly should if you have questions. This choice is extended to juniors and seniors recognizing that most are well versed in their degree requirements. By extending this privilege, we are not encouraging you to see your adviser less frequently, but we are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing your minor, electives, career goals, and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.

In the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you to help monitor your academic progress. The Newhouse staff adviser is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. He or she will also maintain your records, a copy of which is kept in this office. In addition to accessing Degree Works, the automated online audit, at any time, you will be required to meet with your staff adviser and review your DEGREE AUDIT in person before your senior year. The audit will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you should request a meeting to review your requirements and plans with your adviser.

We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email daily. You should also visit the Newhouse Career Development Center (313 Newhouse 3) to seek career advice and to sign up for appropriate workshops as you transition from campus media to off-campus internships.

Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.

August 2019

Dear Newhouse Student:

Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.

As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined your degree requirements and the School Rules and Regulations in this handbook. You are responsible for knowing these requirements.

We don’t expect you to digest all the requirements at once. You should focus at the outset on the Skills and Divisional Requirements . We will be reviewing the rest of the materials in advising sessions this fall. Some of the requirements described here may sound familiar to you since they were included in much less detail in the directions for your first-term enrollment this summer. Even if they sound familiar, please review these requirements once more.

You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Associate and Assistant Deans for Student Affairs, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.

You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 315-443-4722).

One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under Advising Services on your SU portal. While you are required to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, you can see your adviser at any time during the semester throughout your four years. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.

In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Dean’s Office, the Department offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under Advising Services on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may call or email him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.

As a junior or a senior, you will not be required to see your adviser for registration purposes, although you certainly should if you have questions. This choice is extended to juniors and seniors recognizing that most are well versed in their degree requirements. By extending this privilege, we are not encouraging you to see your adviser less frequently, but we are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing your minor, electives, career goals, and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.

In the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you to help monitor your academic progress. The Newhouse staff adviser is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. He or she will also maintain your records, a copy of which is kept in this office. In addition to accessing Degree Works, the automated online audit, at any time, you will be required to meet with your staff adviser and review your DEGREE AUDIT in person before your senior year. The audit will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you should request a meeting to review your requirements and plans with your adviser.

We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email daily. You should also visit the Newhouse Career Development Center (313 Newhouse 3) to seek career advice and to sign up for appropriate workshops as you transition from campus media to off-campus internships.

Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.