Cornell has entered the second semester of its transition from Blackboard to Canvas, with more than half of all courses now using the new learning management system as the previous system gets phased out.
In a message to the Cornell community, President David Skorton encouraged remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. and reflection on "how each of us and all of us can advance the values he stood for in our own lives and in the communities we share."
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.
In giving the 10th annual President's Address to Staff, Interim President Hunter Rawlings stressed the need for staff involvement in university concerns and collaboration across campus and among Cornell's three New York state campuses.
Events include a screening of “On the Basis of Sex” by Cornell Cinema, a free estate planning clinic, an exhibition of work by a student artist at the Seneca Place office building downtown, a panel discussion as part of the Cornell University Press sesquicentennial celebration, and a “Chats in the Stacks” book talk with English professor Daniel Schwarz.
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Cornell $220,000 in initial support to create a program encouraging underrepresented undergraduate students in their pursuit of doctoral degrees. (Nov. 12, 2012)
A diversity initiative is not just training, does not happen in a moment and does not come prepackaged, said a diversity expert May 7 at a communitywide roundtable sponsored by the Diversity Consortium. (May 14, 2009)