As a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, Syracuse University faculty and staff support student success by:
Encouraging global study, experiential learning, interdisciplinary scholarship, creativity, and entrepreneurial endeavors
Balancing professional studies with an intensive liberal arts education
Fostering a richly diverse and inclusive community of learning and opportunity
Promoting a culture of innovation and discovery
Supporting faculty, staff, and student collaboration in creative activity and research that address emerging opportunities and societal needs
Maintaining pride in our location and history as a place of access, engagement, innovation, and impact
Tammy Bluewolf-Kennedy ● (315) 420-2115 ● tbluewol@syr.edu
Location: Syracuse, NY
Website: www.syracuse.edu
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Number of Students: 21,772
Student to Faculty Ratio: 16:1
Percentage of Students Who Identify As Native: 1.4%
Percentage of Staff Who Identify As Native: Not Provided
Graduation Rate For Native Students: Not Provided
Admission Requirements
Common application
2 teacher recommendations
1 guidance counselor recommendation
Official HS transcripts
Personal essay
Test optional for Fall 2023
Visual and Performing Arts requires a portfolio/audition; Architecture requires a portfolio
Native Financial Aid Opportunities Offered by the School
Haudenosaunee Honor Scholarship
Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship
Indigenous Pathways Grant
Diploma
Certificate ✓
Associate's
Bachelor's ✓
Master's ✓
Doctorate ✓
On-Campus Native Specific Housing ✓
On-Campus Family Housing
On-Campus Sober Housing ✓
On-Campus Childcare ✓
Support Person For Native Students ✓
Elder-In-Residence
Native American Tuition Waiver
Native Greek Organizations
Arts & Entertainment Degrees
Acting
Advertising
Architecture
Art History
Art Photography
Bandier Program
Communications Design
Composition
Computer Art and Animation
Design Studies
Drama
English and Textual Studies
Environmental and Interior Design
Fashion Design
Film
Fine Arts
Graphic Design
History of Architecture
Illustration
Industrial and Interaction Design
Music
Music Education
Music History and Cultures
Music Industry
Musical Theater
Performance
Photography
Radio and Film
Stage Management
Theater Design and Technology
Sound Recording Technology
Studio Arts
Television
Writing and Rhetoric
Native Degrees
Iroquois Linguistics
Native Studies Minor
Native Language(s) Taught
Iroquois
Native Classes
Archaeology of North America
Contemporary Native American Movements
Contemporary Native North American Issues
Federal Indian Policy and Native American Identity
Indigenous Religions
Indigenous Writing and Rhetoric
Iroquois Linguistics in Practice
Iroquois Phonetics and Phonology
Iroquois Syntax and Semantics
Iroquois Verb Morphology I
Iroquois Verb Morphology II
Introduction to Native American Studies
Museums and Native Americans
Native American Religion
Native North American Art
Peoples and Cultures of North America
Public Policy and Archaeology
Religion and American Consumerism
Religion and the Conquest of America
Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Popular Culture
Selected Topics in Native American Studies Ethnic Literatures and Cultures: American Indian Political Literature 820-1930
Selected Topics in Native American Studies Indigenous Issues and the Environment
Selected Topics in Native American Studies Literary Periods: Contemporary American Indian Fiction
Topics in Ethnic Literary Traditions Native American Literature
Topics in Literary Periods Contemporary American Indian Fiction
Native Supports Offered
Native Student Program
Ionkerihonieni:ni Guide Program
Native Student Organizations
Indigenous Graduate Student Association
Indigenous Students at Syracuse
Native American Indian Education Association-NY Chapter
Native Events
Haudenosaunee Edge of the Woods welcome (for all incoming students, faculty, and staff living/learning on Onondaga Nation lands)
Indigenous People's Day
Indigenous Honor Ceremony (for graduating students)
Monthly Blanket Exercise program
Monthly Full Moon Ceremonies
Native Heritage Month
Nya Wenha Welcome Luncheon (for incoming Indigenous students)
Native Preparation Programs
Early Orientation
Native High School Programming
None
How Is The School Involved With The Local Native Community?
The university sits on Onondaga Nation homelands; we have a strong partnership with Onondaga leadership as well as the rest of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy; we partner with NOON/Neighbors of Onondaga Nation; Tadodaho provides the welcome Thanksgiving Address at our Indigenous student welcome lunch and graduation as well as at the larger SU graduation ceremonies on campus. We partner with SUNY ESF and the Center for Indigenous Peoples and the Environment who does offer an Indigenous environmental summer camp.