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Cornell: Data

The Office on Institutional Research and Planning (IRP) has collected compositional (demographic) data on diversity, and surveys students, staff and faculty to understand various dimensions of equity, inclusion and belonging.  Data collected is presented to the community through the Interactive Diversity Dashboard.

Cornell: Historical Perspectives

  1. Cornell 1969: Key Issues Then and Now (Faculty Forum, May 1999)
  2. Cornell: A History 1940-2015 (Chapters 5 and 8) by Altschuler and Kramnick.
  3. Past Reports, and Initiatives
  4. Campus Events 2017
  5. Excerpts from the 2018 Task Force Report on Campus Experience

Cornell: Current Perspectives

  1. DoBetterCornell including Petition 1 and Petition 2
  2. Cornell Students for Black Lives (C4BL)
  3. Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff for an Anti-Racist Cornell, 2020 Demands
  4. Anti-racism, Activism, and Institutional Change (ICM Webinar, 10/15/2020)
  5. Native American and Indigenous Students At Cornell-Demands and Petition

Selected Activity at Other Schools

  1. Petition Letters: Princeton, Chicago,  NYU
  2. Center-Level Activity: Princeton,  Brown, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth,  Rutgers, Chicago, Boston University, Harvard Kennedy School, American University, Loyola University of Maryland, U Pennsylvania Law, the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Centers including the one at Duke.
  3. Courses and Requirements of Interest: NYU, Wellesley
  4. Activist-in-Residence: U San Diego

Additional Tips for the Working Groups

  1. 10 Reasons Why Antiracism Training is Not the Problem (Forbes, Sept 5, 2020)
  2. Cornell’s Engaged Ambassadors Program
  3. Careers in Social Activism (Amherst College)
  4. Resources for the Asian-American Community on Anti-Blackness
  5. The RacialEquity2030 Program from the Kellogg Foundation
  6. Cultural Centers at Universities
  7. The 2018 Task Force Report to Enhance Faculty Diversity
  8. Personhood: Rejecting the Notion of Race
  9. American Council of Trustees and Alumni  Letter to Dean of Faculty

The Kendi Book

  1. How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi, 2019) + Reviews
  2. How Ibram X. Kendi’s Definition of Antiracism Applies to Schools (KQED Mindset, Dec, 2019)
  3. What it really means to be an anti-racist, and why it’s not the same as being an ally (Business Insider, June 2020)
  4. ‘Not Racist’ Is Not Enough: Putting In The Work To Be Anti-Racist (NPR, August 2020)
  5. Being Antiracist (Smithsonian)
  6. The False Promise of Anti-racism Books (Atlantic, July 2020)
  7. How to Be an Anti-intellectual (City Journal, Oct 2019)

Illuminating Histories

  1. How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
  2. The Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project

Additional Sources of Information

  1. Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (Advisory Council)
  2. #ShutDownStem
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