Thousands of first-year and transfer students gathered Aug. 20 at Schoellkopf Field for New Student Convocation, where they were told there is no better place than Cornell to feed and grow a curious mind.
Cornell is among 13 higher-education institutions that have joined the Citizens & Scholars Campus Call for Free Expression, a commitment by college presidents to spotlight the principles of critical inquiry and civic discourse on their campuses.
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy will present “Scalia/Ginsburg,” a one-act comedic opera about the unlikely friendship between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 and Antonin Scalia, on Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall.
The Class of 2023 persevered despite challenges they never could have imagined freshman year, President Martha E. Pollack said at Commencement, held May 27 at Schoellkopf Field.
Julián Castro, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and former Congressman Tom Davis (R-Virginia) will serve as the inaugural John W. Nixon ’53 Distinguished Policy Fellows at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
The significance, history and challenges of free expression and academic freedom will be explored as a featured theme throughout the 2023-24 academic year, President Martha E. Pollack will announce April 17.
Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic was part of a team that won a precedent-setting ruling by a federal appeals court concerning the scope of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act.
Once used as a tool for constitutional reform, Congress has repurposed Article V of the U.S. Constitution into a mechanism for taking positions on issues, according to new Cornell research.
The kinds of speech that should, and should not, be allowed on social media platforms – and who should make such distinctions – were discussed by a journalist and law professor during the final installment of Civil Discourse: The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series, on April 14.
