A combined $50 million commitment from Robert F. Smith '85, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, and the foundation of which he is a founding director will support chemical and biomolecular engineering and African-American and female students in Engineering in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech.
Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Janaya Khan of BLM Toronto will speak Feb. 3 at the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
The ninth annual Soup & Hope series opened with a talk by Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo ’08, who described her personal journey toward authenticity, letting herself learn how to express and control her emotions in public.
“Black Lives Matter” is the theme of a community celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Ithaca, and founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will come to Cornell Feb. 3 for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
The third cohort of Posse Foundation students came to Cornell this fall. The full-scholarship and youth leadership program brings promising Chicago students to 10 top-tier universities.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to the School of Hotel Administration in support of diversity and inclusion initiatives, and student financial aid.
At the Fall Diversity in Scholarship and Engagement Symposium Dec. 7, a Cornell faculty member gave advice for minority students on how to get through graduate school and succeed in academic careers.
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, staff and chaplains of Cornell United Religious Work offer support to students exercising their freedom of speech, belief and activity to address racism in America.
Vice President Ryan Lombardi announced at yesterday's Student Assembly meeting that he is planning to increase the number of front-line staff in the university’s advocacy and resource centers.
