A new peer mentor program offered by the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives aims to help first-year or transfer students from underrepresented or underserved groups navigate Cornell, find community and opportunities, and succeed academically.
The seminar explores the ways in which women, people of color and others have been marginalized in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and how to address exclusion.
Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom, created and piloted last year at Cornell, will be available to all educators in November as a massive open online course.
Russell Weaver says the redistricting serves as an opportunity to create fair and sensible plans for the collective interests of neighborhoods and communities – instead of politics and incumbency protection.
From April 10-12, ice cream aficionados will get several opportunities to taste and vote on their favorite of three new student-developed flavors, crafted to help celebrate “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”
Anthony Jack, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will address diversity at elite institutions in a lecture Oct. 3 in the Biotechnology Building, Room G10.
Kraig H. Kayser, MBA ’84, will start a three-year term as chair of the Cornell University Board of Trustees on July 1, succeeding Robert S. Harrison ’76.
In 2023, Cornell will increase university grant aid for all undergrads who qualify for financial aid, thanks to the success of the “To Do the Greatest Good” campaign.
