Editing Syracuse University (section)

==Academics==
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| '''School''' ||style="text-align: center;"| '''Year founded'''
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| [[Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences|College of Arts and Sciences]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1871
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| [[Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts|College of Visual and Performing Arts]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1873
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| [[Syracuse University School of Architecture|School of Architecture]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1873
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| [[Syracuse University College of Law|College of Law]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1895
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| [[Syracuse University School of Information Studies|School of Information Studies]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1896
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| [[Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science|College of Engineering and Computer Science]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1901
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| [[Syracuse University School of Education|School of Education]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1906
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| Graduate School|| style="text-align: center;" | 1912
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| [[David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics|Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1917
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| [[Syracuse University College of Professional Studies|College of Professional Studies]]||style="text-align: center;"| 1918
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| [[Martin J. Whitman School of Management|Whitman School of Management]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1919
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| [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1924
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| [[S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications|Newhouse School of Public Communications]] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1934
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Syracuse is a comprehensive, highly residential research university. The majority of enrollments are in the full-time, four-year undergraduate program that balances arts & sciences and professions. There is a high graduate coexistence with the comprehensive graduate program and a [[Research I university|
very high level of research]] activity.<ref name="Carnegie_Classification" /> It is accredited by the [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education]].<ref name="middle_states" />

The most popular majors at Syracuse University include: Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs; Social Sciences; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Visual and Performing Arts; and Engineering. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 91 percent.<ref name="2024 cds"/><ref name="collegescorecard" /> The student-faculty ratio at Syracuse University is 15:1, and the school has 58.5 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students.

===Organization===
Syracuse is governed by a 70-member board of trustees with 64 trustees elected by the board to four-year terms and six elected by the alumni to four-year terms. Of the 64 board-elected trustees, three must represent specified conferences of the [[United Methodist Church]]. In addition, the Chancellor and the President of the Syracuse Alumni Association serve as ex officio voting trustees. Two students and one faculty member serve as non-voting representatives on the board.<ref name="bylaws" /> The board selects, and sets the salary of, the chancellor. The university bylaws also establish a university senate with "general supervision over all educational matters concerning the University as a whole". The senate consists of administrators, faculty, students and staff.<ref name="bylaws" />

Syracuse University is organized into 13 schools and colleges.

===Admissions===
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|year              = 2023
|admit rate        = 41.7%
|admit rate change = -8.17
|yield rate        = 20.9%
|yield rate change = 0.3
|test optional = yes
|SAT Total         = 1280–1410<br />(among 24% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|SAT Total change  = 
|ACT               = 28–32<br />(among 9% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|ACT change        = 
|GPA              =  	3.8
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|ref               = <ref name="2024 cds">{{cite web|url=https://institutionalresearch.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/syracuse_university_cds_2023-2024.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2023-2024 |publisher=Syracuse University |access-date=September 16, 2024 }}</ref>
}}

Syracuse's admissions process is "more selective" according to the [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|Carnegie Classification]].<ref name="Carnegie_Classification" /> For the 2023 incoming class, Syracuse accepted 17,545 of its 42,089 applicants, or 41.69 percent. 3,672 students enrolled in the class, a yield rate of 20.93 percent.<ref name="2024 cds" /> In 2024, the school received around 45,000 applications.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Syverud |first1=Kent |title=Chancellor Syverud Provides Updates to University Senate on University Climate and Shared Governance |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2024/09/26/chancellor-syverud-provides-updates-to-university-senate-on-university-climate-and-shared-governance/ |access-date=27 September 2024 |work=Syracuse University News |date=26 September 2024}}</ref>

In 2018, 26% of the incoming students were [[Person of color|students of color]]; 18% were [[First-generation college students in the United States|first-generation college students]]; 21% were [[Pell Grant|federal Pell grant]] eligible (an indicator for low-income students), and 75% received some financial aid. Students came from 48 states, along with Washington, D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico. Nearly 600 international undergraduate students from 59 countries were also admitted.<ref name="SAT_2018" /><ref name="collegescorecard" /><ref name="Pell_grant" />

In fall 2023, Syracuse University had a total acceptance rate of 42%.<ref name="2024 cds"/>

===Degrees===
The university offers undergraduate degrees in over 200 [[academic major|majors]] in the nine undergraduate schools and colleges.<ref name="Office of Admissions1" /> [[Bachelor's degree]]s are offered through the [[Syracuse University School of Architecture]], the [[Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences|College of Arts and Sciences]], the [[Syracuse University School of Education|School of Education]], the [[David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics]], the [[Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science|College of Engineering and Computer Science]], the [[Syracuse University School of Information Studies|School of Information Studies]], [[Martin J. Whitman School of Management]], [[S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications]], and the [[Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts|College of Visual and Performing Arts]]. Also offered are [[Master's degree|Master's]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|doctoral]] degrees online<ref name="mba_online" /> and in person from the Graduate School and from specialized programs in the [[Martin J. Whitman School of Management]], [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]], [[Syracuse University College of Law|College of Law]], among others. Additionally, SU offers Certificates of Advanced Study Programs for specialized programs for education, counseling, and other academic areas.<ref name="advance study ischool" /><ref name="advance study maxwell" /><ref name="advance study education" />

The university has offered multiple international study programs since 1911. SU&nbsp;Abroad, formerly known as the Division of International Programs Abroad (DIPA), currently offers joint programs with universities in over 40 countries.<ref name="SUAbroad" /> The university operates eight international centers, called SU Abroad Centers, that offer structured programs in a variety of academic disciplines. The centers are located at Beijing, [[Istanbul]], [[Florence]], Hong Kong, London ([[Faraday House]]), [[Madrid]], [[Strasbourg]], and [[Santiago]].<ref name="SUAbroad" /><ref name="SU Abroad" />

===Rankings and reputation===
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{{Infobox US university ranking
| Wamo_NU = 97
| USNWR_NU = 67
| THE_WSJ = 117
| Forbes = 108
| THES_W = 401–500
| USNWR_W = 479
| QS_W = 801–850
| ARWU_W = 701–800
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! colspan=4 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Syracuse Orange|color=white}}" |National programs rankings<ref name="USNWR" />
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! Program
! Ranking
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| Audiology || 29
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| Biological Sciences || 112
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| Business || 84
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| Chemistry || 96
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| Clinical Psychology || 50
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| Computer Science || 68
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| Earth Sciences || 54
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| Economics || 50
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| Education || 55
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| Engineering || 111
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| English || 73
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| Fine Arts || 53
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| History || 67
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| Law || 102
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| Library & Information Studies || 6
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| Mathematics || 74
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| Physics || 69
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| Political Science || 50
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| Psychology || 90
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| Public Affairs || 1
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| Social Work || 59
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| Sociology || 61
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| Speech–Language Pathology || 32
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! colspan=4 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Syracuse Orange|color=white}}" |Online programs rankings<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Syracuse University – U.S. News Best Online School Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=September 28, 2020|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/syracuse-university-196413|archive-date=December 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210195054/https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/syracuse-university-196413|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! Program
! Ranking
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| Master's in Computer Information Technology || 19
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| Master's in Computer Information Technology for Veterans || 11
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| Master's in Business Programs (excluding MBA) || 47
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| Master's in Business Programs for Veterans (excluding MBA) || 25
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| MBA Programs || 54
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| MBA Programs for Veterans || 32
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| Bachelor's Programs || 133
|}

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|-
! colspan=4 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Syracuse Orange|color=white}}" |Global programs rankings<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Syracuse University – U.S. News Best Global University Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=September 28, 2020|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/syracuse-university-196413|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807223840/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/syracuse-university-196413|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! Program
! Ranking
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| Arts & Humanities || 218
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| Economics & Business || 232
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| Engineering || 899
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| Physics || 245
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| Social Sciences & Public Health || 221
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[[File:Slocum Hall, Syracuse University.JPG|thumb|Slocum Hall, [[Syracuse University School of Architecture|The School of Architecture]]]]
[[File:Newhouse-School-Syracuse-Univ-2014.jpg|thumb|[[S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications]]]]

In its 2021 ranking of U.S. colleges, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked Syracuse tied for 58th among undergraduate national universities.<ref name="USNWR overall" /> A 2019 survey in the Academic Ranking of World Universities places Syracuse University in the top 100 world universities in social sciences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/subject-ranking/social-sciences|title=World University Rankings 2019 by subject: social sciences|date=October 8, 2018|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=July 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704035631/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/subject-ranking/social-sciences|archive-date=July 4, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Top 100 world universities in Social Sciences" /> In 2019, Syracuse University was ranked 22nd in [[New York State]] by average professor salaries.<ref name="Faculty Compensation AAUP" /><ref name="Faculty Compensation ithaca" /> Syracuse was ranked 1st in ''[[The Princeton Review]]'''s 2015 and 2019 list of top party schools.<ref name="party school 2015" /><ref name="party school 2019" /> SU was named as one of top [[Fulbright Award]] producing institutions for 2020–21.<ref name="Fulbright 21"/>

The [[Syracuse University School of Architecture|School of Architecture]] Bachelor of Architecture program was ranked 5th nationally in both the ''most Hired from'' and ''most admired'' categories by the journal ''Design Intelligence'' in its 2019–20 rankings.<ref>{{cite web |title=Most Hired from Architecture Schools |url=https://www.di-rankings.com/most-hired-from-schools-architecture/ |publisher=DesignIntelligence |access-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405173217/https://www.di-rankings.com/most-hired-from-schools-architecture/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Most Admired Architecture Schools |url=https://www.di-rankings.com/most-admired-schools-architecture/ |publisher=DesignIntelligence |access-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-date=February 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220201940/https://www.di-rankings.com/most-admired-schools-architecture/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:SU-Dineen-Hall-2015b.jpg|thumb|Dineen Hall, the [[Syracuse University College of Law|College of Law]]|alt=]]
[[File:The Martin J. Whitman School of Management.jpg|thumb|[[Martin J. Whitman School of Management]]|alt=]]

The [[Syracuse University School of Information Studies|School of Information Studies]] offers [[Information management|information management and technology]] courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Syracuse University. Within the School of Information Studies, ''U.S. News & World Report'' has ranked the graduate program as the 6th best Library and Information Studies graduate school in the United States for 2022, with the graduate program in School Library Media ranked 3rd, the graduate program in Digital Librarianship ranked 4th, and the graduate Information Systems program tied at No. 5.<ref name="USNWR" />

The School of Management was renamed the [[Martin J. Whitman School of Management]] in 2003, in honor of Syracuse alumnus and benefactor [[Martin J. Whitman]]. The school is home to about 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The graduate program was ranked tied at No. 84 among business schools nationwide by ''U.S. News & World Report'' for 2022.<ref name="USNWR" /> Also, the Joseph I. Lubin School of Accounting was named No. 10 in the nation by ''The Chronicle of Higher Education''.<ref name="fastfacts" />

The [[Syracuse University College of Law|College of Law]] was ranked tied for 102nd nationally by ''U.S. News & World Report'' for 2022.<ref name="USNWR" /> It is an emerging leader in the relatively novel field of National Security Law.<ref name="INSCT – Institute for National Security & Counterterrorism" /> In 2007, the law school started the Cold Case Justice Initiative, investigating cold cases from the civil rights era in the South. Its professors and students have identified 196 cases, of which more than 100 are in Georgia, and will give information to the US Department of Justice to have cases prosecuted.<ref name="Cold Case Justice Initiative" /> The FBI has identified 122 cold cases that it is trying to resolve. President [[Joe Biden]] is a graduate of the College of Law.

[[File:Abraham Lincoln Statue and Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2012.jpg|thumb|The statue of Abraham Lincoln outside the [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]]|alt=]]

The [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]] combines social sciences with public administration and international relations. It was ranked as the No. 1 graduate school for public affairs in the U.S. by ''U.S. News & World Report'' for 2022.<ref name="USNWR" />

''Military Times'' ranks Syracuse University the top "Private School for Vets" and 5th overall in the "Best for Vets" in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2018/10/23/military-times-names-syracuse-no-1-private-institution-on-2019-best-colleges-for-vets-list/|title=Military Times Names Syracuse No. 1 Private Institution on 2019 Best Colleges for Vets List|website=SU News|date=October 23, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=February 13, 2020|archive-date=November 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126104258/https://news.syr.edu/blog/2018/10/23/military-times-names-syracuse-no-1-private-institution-on-2019-best-colleges-for-vets-list/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://charts.militarytimes.com/chart/15 |title=Best for Vets: Colleges 2020 4-year Schools |website=rebootcamp.militarytimes.com|language=en-US|access-date=February 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191120195742/https://rebootcamp.militarytimes.com/news/education/2018/10/22/best-for-vets-colleges-the-best-schools-for-military-students-in-2019/|archive-date=November 20, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Syracuse University was ranked tied for 30th in "Best Colleges for Veterans" by ''U.S. News & World Report'' for 2022.<ref name="USNWR overall" /> To position Syracuse University as the center of veteran life on the school's campus, in the local community, across Central New York; and the nation's hub of research and programming connected to the veteran and military sectors, the school completed the $63 million state-of-the-art National Veterans Resource Center (NVRC) in 2020,<ref name="NVRC 62Million"/> the first-of-its kind facility in the United States.<ref name="NVRC DO"/>

[[File:Shaffer Art Building & Center for Science and Technology as seen from the Orange Grove, Syracuse University (2012).jpg|thumb|From left to right: Link Hall, Life Sciences Complex, and Shaffer Art Building|alt=Image of Link Hall, Life Sciences Complex, and Shaffer Art Building at Syracuse University]]

The graduate program of the College of Visual and Performing Art (VPA) is considered one of the top 50 programs in the US.<ref name="US_News_VPA" /> VPA ranked No. 14 in multimedia/visual communications, a specialty that includes disciplines found in the college's Department of Transmedia, which offers M.F.A. programs in art photography, art video, computer art, and film. VPA also ranked No. 16 in ceramics, No. 19 in printmaking, and No. 20 in sculpture, which are M.F.A. programs based in the Department of Art. [[Project Advance]] (or SUPA) is a nationally recognized concurrent enrollment program honored by the American Association for Higher Education, the [[Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]], the [[National Commission on Excellence in Education]], and the [[National Institute of Education]].<ref name="SUPA About Us" />

Civil liberties organization [[Foundation for Individual Rights in Education|FIRE]] gave Syracuse its 2021 "Lifetime Censorship Award", "[f]or its unashamed assault on expressive freedoms".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefire.org/10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-2021/ |title=10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2021 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=February 17, 2021 |website=theFIRE.org |publisher=Foundation for Individual Rights in Education |access-date=September 8, 2021 |archive-date=September 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908185022/https://www.thefire.org/10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-2021/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Libraries===
[[File:Carnegie Library (Syracuse University) 02.jpg|thumb|Carnegie Library at Syracuse University]]

[[File:Bird Library at Syracuse University as seen from the university place walkway 01.jpg|thumb|Bird Library at Syracuse University]]

Syracuse University's main library is the <!-- Ernest Stevenson Bird; but the school and other sources don't even use initials --> E. S. Bird Library, which opened in September 1972.<ref name="Bird library history"/><ref name="Bird library greene"/> Its seven levels contain 2.3&nbsp;million books, 11,500 periodicals, {{convert|45000|ft|m}} of manuscripts and rare books, 3.6&nbsp;million [[microform]]s, and a café. It remains one of the hundred largest libraries in the country.<ref name="ALA_holdings" /> The historic Carnegie library houses Science and Technology collection, additionally serving as a reading room.<ref name="carnegie_library"/> There are also several departmental libraries on campus. Many of the landmarks in the history of recorded communication between people are in the university's Special Collections Research Center, from [[cuneiform]] tablets and papyri to several codices dating from the 11th century to the invention of printing. The collection also includes works by [[Galileo]], [[Martin Luther|Luther]], [[John Calvin]], [[Voltaire]], [[Isaac Newton]], [[Descartes]], [[Francis Bacon]], [[Samuel Johnson]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]. Other collections of note include [[Rudyard Kipling]] first editions and an original second leaf of the [[Gutenberg Bible]].

In addition, the collection includes the [[Ranke Library|personal library]] of [[Leopold Von Ranke]]. Making sensational headlines in 1887,<ref name="Ranke Purchase"/> the university outbid the [[Prussia|Prussian government]] for all 19 tons of Von Ranke's prized [[Library of Leopold von Ranke|personal library]].<ref name="Ranke1" /><ref name="Ranke2" />

Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of national archives of [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]].<ref name="Kenya National Archives"/> Since 1878, the university has participated in the [[Federal Depository Library Program]] of the [[U.S. Government Publishing Office]] (GPO) as a Regional depository library.<ref name="GPO Depository Library"/><ref name="Govt Publications at SU"/> It is the first library to permanently preserve print collections of historical government publications produced by the US-GPO.<ref name="GPO first"/> In July 2008, Syracuse University became the owner of the second largest collection of [[78 rpm]] records in the United States after the [[Library of Congress]] after a donation of more than 200,000 records. The donation, valued at $1&nbsp;million, more than doubled the university's collection of 78&nbsp;rpm records to about 400,000.<ref name="records1" /><ref name="records2" /> It also has a special Harriet Tubman Research Collection and an Environmental Justice and Gender collection housed in the [[Department of African American Studies - Syracuse University#Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library|Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library]]. The MLK library holds over 15,000 acquisitions in African, African-American, Afro-Latino, and Caribbean studies.

The university is also home to the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, whose holdings total approximately 540,000 recordings in all formats, primarily cylinders, discs, and magnetic tapes. Some of the voices to be found include [[Thomas Edison]], [[Amelia Earhart]], and [[Albert Einstein]].<ref name="belfer1" /><ref name="belfer2"/> Since 2011, the facility has produced ''Sound Beat'', a daily 90-second music program that airs on nearly 375 local stations across North America.<ref name="Sound Beat1"/><ref name="Sound Beat2"/>

===Faculty===
{{main category|Syracuse University faculty}}
Syracuse University has 1013 full-time instructional faculty, 96 part-time faculty, and 454 [[adjunct faculty]]. Approximately 86% of the full-time faculty have earned PhDs or professional degrees.<ref name="facts" /> The current faculty includes scholars such as [[MacArthur Fellow]] [[Don Mitchell (geographer)|Don Mitchell]], Professor of Geography, who has developed studies in cultural geography; [[Bruce Kingma]], Associate Provost and Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship, a pioneer in the field of information economics and online learning; [[Catherine Bertini]], Professor of Practice in Public Administration, who has worked on the role of women in food distribution; [[Frederick C. Beiser]], Professor of Philosophy, one of leading scholars of [[German idealism]]; [[Mary Karr]], the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature, who has received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in poetry; [[John Caputo]], the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Humanities, who founded [[Postmodern Christianity#Weak Theology|weak theology]]; [[Sean O'Keefe]], former chairman of [[Airbus Group, Inc.]] and former [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]]; and political theorist [[Elizabeth F. Cohen]].