Six custodial and housekeeping staff were recognized with the ninth annual Bartels Awards for Service Excellence Dec. 8 in Bartels Hall. Eight children of Cornell staff received Bartels scholarships.
Using the Lean process, The Cornell Store has completely revamped its textbook selling process, resulting in efficiencies and a rethinking of the store’s entire retail and online businesses.
CALS Student Services is using customer relationship management technologies for a wide range of academic processes to better anticipate and meet student needs.
Local and campus leaders met Nov. 14 to recognize town-gown partnerships and celebrate the "long history of cooperation for mutual benefit" that the university, city and county have enjoyed.
An initiative to reduce the burden of bureaucracy is not a one-time goal, but a way of operating for a modern university that wants to be "nimble, flexible, resilient and responsive," President Elizabeth Garrett said in her first formal address to staff.
Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett has asked all faculty and staff to assess how they can weed out unnecessary regulation, duplicative structures and burdensome paperwork.
A procedure established in 2014 makes it easier for graduate and professional students to get the assistance they need when injured on university property or while engaged in a university-sponsored activity.
Mary Opperman, VP and chief human resource officer at Cornell, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, the highest honor an individual in the human resources profession can receive.
A new feature in Workday allows faculty and staff to create and manage their own professional profile, much like Linked In but accessible only to the Cornell community. All other features of Workday keep the same limited access as they currently have.
