An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
I grew up in Endwell, New York, a small town about 40 miles from Cornell University. Though it’s a short drive from Ithaca, to me it represented a tremendous shift in worldview. My freshman year exposed me to thoughts, cultures and people that were not present during my first 18 years of life.
To bring together related functional areas and realize greater efficiencies throughout Cornell, President Elizabeth Garrett is restructuring her leadership team, reorganizing some of the university's top administrative responsibilities.
“The Facing Project: Storytelling for Change,” will be held March 4 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 102 Mann Library as part of the The Local and the Global: Dialogues on Community Engagement series.
With the CU-ADVANCE Center's five-year grant period drawn to a close, its leaders point to the many ways its goals have been met, but also what more needs to be done.
Reunion 2013, for the Classes of 3s and 8s, will see alumni celebrating their fifth to 75th Reunions, from the Class of 1938 to the Class of 2008, as well as members of the Classes of 2013 and 2012 attending for Reunion Zero and Reunion One.
Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, says that Cornell is committed to enhancing its staffing levels and continuing to invest in its comprehensive approach to student well-being, campus health and safety.
The $125,000 grant will fund the 21st Century Graduate Teaching and Research Scholars Program, through which graduate students will learn about and use high-impact teaching practices. (May 31, 2012)
Cornell is among more than 80 schools to join the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, a new initiative to improve the college application and admissions process for all students.
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.