What does Syracuse University teach for $100,000 per year?

“Why Syracuse Can’t Attract the Students It Needs to Pay the Bills” (WSJ) covers the financial slide at this Rust Belt school pretty well, but doesn’t dig into the product. Let’s pick a few professors at Syracuse and see what a $100,000/year customer might learn from they/them.

Scholar-activist, Professor Kishi Animashaun Ducre:

“The Black feminist spatial imagination and an intersectional environmental justice”, “Katrina as Postscript to Racialized Spaces in Louisiana.”, and “Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth”

Professor PJ DiPietro (she/they, her/them, hers/their):

engages decolonial thinking, hemispheric Latinx studies, and critical theories of race, gender, transgender, and sexuality

“The Coloniality of Gender”; “Trans of Color is an Oxymoron. Humans, nonHuman Animals, and the Bodies Beneath Animals”; “Co-Creating Transdisciplinary Decolonial Curricula”; “Hallucinating Knowing: (Extra)Ordinary Consciousness, more-than-human Perception, and other Decolonizing Remedios within Latina and Xicana Feminist and Queer Theories”

Here’s a department that acknowledges that the university is on stolen land, which it refuses to give back and won’t pay rent on:

What they promise students will be able to do after forking over $400,0000 and four years away from the AI Klondike:

Integrate feminist and queer theory and practice to challenge social relations, representations, knowledges, institutions, and policies.
Model feminist and queer competencies of collaborative learning that embrace cooperation and mutual aid.

From Professor Eunjung Kim, a member of this department:

Kim, E. (2010). How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality.

Kim, E. (2024). Asexual Kinship: Capitalism, Reproduction, and an Imperiality of Asexuality.

(At least 14 years of studying people not having sex.)