Trustees reaffirm support for Pollack
Cornell’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted in favor of Pollack’s administration amidst criticism of the university’s DEI programs.
Cornell’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted in favor of Pollack’s administration amidst criticism of the university’s DEI programs.
Cornell history professor Russell Rickford spoke at a rally on Sunday, expressed excitement and support for Hamas.
Under the proposed plan, to graduate from Cornell, one must demonstrate mastery of a woke ‘skillset’ centered around anti-racism.
The Supreme Court has ended affirmative action, but who at Cornell will ensure that the university will follow the Court’s guidance?
It was unnerving seeing a crowd of Cornell students, some of whom I have sat next to in class, call for the destruction of the only Jewish country in the world. Yet, as the local Hillel students said, the rhetoric was “shocking, but unsurprising.”
“Cornell is not alone in terms of having had an incident where a speaker was shouted down,” McGuire remarked.
What he has found is that many parents are not in favor of these developments. “I don’t think, saying to parents, ‘We want your kids to march around the classroom rather than studying to get ahead in life.’ I don’t think that’s popular,” Jacobson explained to Carlson.
On April 4, the MIT Free Speech Alliance and the MIT Adam Smith Society held a much publicized, Oxford Union-style debate on the MIT campus to consider “Should Academic DEI Programs Be Abolished?” The in-person debate was also live-streamed and promoted by the Cornell Free Speech Alliance (CFSA), one of 15 co-sponsors.
This organization is a registered student organization of Cornell University