Criminal justice reformer, attorney and filmmaker Dawn Porter is the featured speaker for Cornell's 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6 p.m. at the State Theatre.
On Feb. 2, Interim President Hunter Rawlings joined 47 other college and university presidents in signing a letter to President Donald J. Trump, urging him to rescind his executive order on immigration.
To demonstrate that by using creativity all employees can participate in Cornell's opportunities, Angela Winfield, director of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity, scaled the wall at the new Lindseth Climbing Center.
Cornell helps set its students on the path to the American Dream, according to the Equality of Opportunity Project's "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility."
Rosa Clemente, M.P.S. '02, will speak on the significance of political activism and social justice and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, Jan. 24 at the Africana Studies and Research Center.
Heritage language learners - students who know a language and have perhaps spoken or heard it since birth - are taking courses to address gaps in in reading, writing, pronunciation and vocabulary.
