Nearly 4,000 new students are arriving at Cornell this month, with the Class of 2020 and incoming transfer students setting admissions records for diversity.
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars learned skills for communication in academic settings and building relationships across differences in an Intergroup Dialogue Project summer course.
Using ancient Greek texts on war and honor to teach critical reading skills, President Rawlings led one of the class sessions in the 2016 Warrior Scholar Project July 27.
Diversity officers from campuses across the country attended a three-day workshop on how faculty can incorporate diversity into their classrooms. The Faculty Diversity Institute has become well-known for its innovative approach.
Cornell's first Future Professors Institute guided 77 participants, many of whom identify as underrepresented minorities, on the path to a career in the academy, and advanced Cornell's efforts to broaden diversity in higher ed.
Blue-collar training without a strong college-preparatory focus leads to blue-collar jobs for men but penalizes women in the labor market, says April Sutton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Population Center.
The Colman Leadership Program, hosted by the Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and Diversity Programs in Engineering, offered personal exploration to 26 Ph.D. students in all fields of study June 14-18.
Cornell was among 15 institutions of higher education hosted by the White House June 10 as founding partners launching the Obama administration's Fair Chance Higher Education Pledge.
