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.
Matthew Desmond, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, spoke about factors contributing to widespread eviction in a Nov. 16 campus talk.
Jennifer Lawless, a nationally recognized expert on women in politics, examined the reasons for the underrepresentation of women in politics in the final Making of the President Series talk Nov. 14.
A day after President-elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 8 victory, Cornell students, senior administrators, faculty and staff gathered for a meal while processing the election results as a community and discussing how to move on in post-election America.