Kids, ETC. (Entrepreneurship, Technology, Creativity)

Syracuse University’s Center for Digital Literacy (CDL), led by Ruth Small, has received an Enitiative grant to support its fall 2008 Institute on Digital Empowerment. The conference theme will be “Kids, ETC. (Entrepreneurship, Technology & Creativity).” Enitiative funding will also support a preliminary research symposium in spring 2008 which will bring selected researchers in the area of young people and creative entrepreneurship to the Syracuse University campus to discuss their research (ongoing, in-progress, and potential) at a public forum and to meet with Center for Digital Literacy faculty and students to provide input for the 2008 conference program.

Several faculty members, including Associate Professor Lee McKnight and his Wireless Grids Corporation, have built spin-off companies from their cutting-edge research in academia.

Associate Professor Jeffrey Stanton's newest book, Information Nation: Education and Careers in the Emerging Information Professions, discusses the barriers preventing many U.S. students from succeeding in the growing information technology market, as well as potential career paths and educational tracks available to up and coming students in the industry.