Cornell President Martha E. Pollack sent a message to the Cornell community Oct. 23 condemning fliers promoting white supremacy and anti-Semitism, which were found on and off campus earlier in the day.
About 5,287 miles from Ithaca, near the banks of Ghana’s Volta River, a primary and junior high school for girls is rising from the collective imagination and brain power of the Cornell University Sustainable Design team.
Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff has launched a task force to recommend new approaches to accelerate the diversity of the Cornell faculty. A report with short- and long-term strategies to improve retention rates for underrepresented faculty is due in spring 2018.
More than 50 first-generation faculty, staff and students gathered Oct.12 for a networking reception for the new “I’m First!” campaign hosted by the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives.
In a statement released Oct. 11, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack shared the charge of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate and announced its co-chairs, Lisa Nishii, Madelyn Wessel and David Wooten.
President Martha E. Pollack sent a message to the Cornell community Oct. 11 with updates regarding the Presidential Task Force that will examine and address persistent problems of bigotry and intolerance at Cornell.