Lulu'sMomma

Also, even if there were spots open at some programs, all of the the financial aid may have been allocated and again, that puts programs out of reach for many. I just find it so hard to believe that they had no idea that they were in jeopardy earlier than this and I feel awful for the kids impacted by this.

KatiesDad

So it seems their summer programs are back online here?

Acting & Musical Theatre

briansteffy

We were plannng to go to Syracuse's acting summer program last summer. They announced the cancellation at about the time that we were going to submit our application. I can say that one of the pros/cons (depending how you look at it) was that they treated it as a college course - regular homework and grades. My S had homework ( a couple of short papers) at BU, but our impression was that Syracuse required more, as they granted college credit transferrable to other colleges. I do not want to say anything negative about Syracuse, as it's one of out prefernces programs (acting) and my CC ID is my name (hence my S's), but the University seems to be undergoing some restructuring. For example, they shut down their nursing program (they closed the medical school decades ago, and I think SUNY, over the past decades has taken over about three of their schools (i.e. Forestry - an excellent program). Why they closed nursing is a hard one for me to understand. It's one of the highest demand/need programs out there. On the other hand, it is an expenxive program. When I investigated the move a couple years ago, I read that they wanted to invest more in Information Sytems/Technology education - perhaps they are benchmarking Carnegie-Mellon.
Perhaps a Syracuse person in the know can give a sense of what is going on at the University level. Again, we loved the theatre people that we met. I attended the place decades ago. My S really likes SU. It has great programs, besides theatre. It's communication and Business programs, as well as others, are outstanding.
The cancalation last summer had nothing to do with the theatre program. I think that they wanted to revise the entire university-summer system. Perhaps they will change it so that a person does not have to pay for college credit, which, I think, made it was one of the more expensive programs. I did not care about the credit; perhaps others felt the same way.

MichaelNKat

At the MT summer program in 2006, students were assigned a paper requiring 15 pages of text with 10 pages of required graphics and illusrations the first week with 10 days lead time. It was assigned by one of the regular faculty members who usually teaches upperclass acting studio. It was on the human voice. The papers were never graded or returned to students. Intersting and important topic, poor learning experience and the general concensus among the students was that this particular professor assigned it to shock them out of any "H.S. Star" complacency more than for any other reason.

In my earlier posts, I commented that the program included voice. I was imprecise. The program included MT performance but there were no voice lessons. Voice lessons are through the Music Department and the faculty for the summer program was from the Drama and Dance Departments. Don't know if this has changed for 2008.