INSIDE BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY

Writing Initiative course assists first-year students
A new University program is working to deliver better writing instruction to first-year students. The Writing Initiative, which was launched this fall, unites the Writing Center, English as a Second Language (ESL) and first-year composition units.

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Graduate student goes from research to results
Sean O'Hagen earned dual undergraduate degrees in psychology and classics at Montclair State University, but chose to pursue his doctorate in clinical psychology at Binghamton because he saw a close-knit program - a happy group of people "really working together."

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Professor helping charter school in New Orleans
For Jenny Gordon, working in New Orleans is the perfect mix of teaching, research and service.

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MSW students to return to city
When Jennifer Marshall recounts the trip she and Master of Social Work students took to New Orleans in March, Third World conditions describe a city that was once the jewel of the South.

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Retired judge returns for Briloff lecture
Twenty years ago, Stanley Sporkin gave the Abraham J. Briloff Lecture and spoke about the survival of the accounting profession given the technological revolution that was then under way. On Nov. 12, Sporkin made a return engagement to Binghamton, delivering the 22nd annual Briloff Lecture on Accountability and Society for the School of Management. His topic this visit: "On the Road to Financial Shangri-La - What Happened?"

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