The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/annesnabes/)
According to the Financial Aid office, 2,604 Cornell students are participating in work-study jobs in 2019. 2,528 students held work-study jobs in 2018 and 2,293 students in 2017.
On Tuesday, the City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board approved the preliminary site plan for the North Campus Residential Expansion, with certain restrictions and conditions.
After waiting for more than 12 years, Cornell’s Grape Genetic Research Unit will finally receive the funding it needs to build a new facility at the University’s AgriTech campus in Geneva, New York.
As local municipalities review the University’s plan to expand North Campus housing, chairs of multiple planning boards expressed concern about how the project will affect traffic, parking and sewage on campus.
Cornellians will eat soup and listen to Cal Walker, Cornell’s former liaison to the Ithaca City School District, speak at the Soup & Hope event on Thursday.
Physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine and University administrators earn the highest paychecks out of all Cornell employees, while professors teaching on the Ithaca campus have a much lower average salary.
After an icy start to the semester, maintenance staff restored warmth to the rooms of several North Campus residents who were lacking heat on Monday night.
The University explained that it was unable to offer transfer students housing on-campus because the incoming class of transfers was “unusually large,” so there was an “overwhelming demand” for housing.
Admissions is a “highly difficult process and very subjective,” the interim vice provost for enrollment said during an interview with The Sun.
The new College of Arts and Sciences curriculum proposal passed Tuesday. The changes will allow students to take sign language to fulfill the college’s language requirement and will have a “social difference” requirement. The college is hoping to implement these changes in Fall 2020.