Cal Walker
Soup and Hope Rolls On With Speaker Cal Walker This Thursday
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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.
payroll
Weill Cornell Medicine Physicians Among Highest Paid Cornell Employees
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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.
Heaters
Warmth Returned to North Campus Housing After Heater Failures
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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.
campus life
‘Isolated,’ ‘Vulnerable’ and ‘Nervous’: Transfer Students Express Frustration Over Not Being Able to Live On Campus
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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
A Look Inside How Cornell Accepts Its Students
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Admissions is a “highly difficult process and very subjective,” the interim vice provost for enrollment said during an interview with The Sun.
Arts & Sciences
New ‘Social Difference’ Requirement One of Changes in Newly Passed A&S Curriculum Proposal
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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.
graduation requirements
Controversial Recommendation to Cut Arts and Sciences Language Requirement Eliminated
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Pepinsky explained that the committee’s new recommendations did make some “compromises” in an effort not to “disproportionately burden” students with heavy course loads.
Arts & Sciences
A&S Dean Ray Jayawardhana Shares His Passions for Collaborative Learning and Astrophysics
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The Sun sat down with Jayawardhana, who took the helm of the College of Arts and Sciences on Sept. 1, to learn more about his background and the work he has accomplished.
planning and development committee
Local Activists Challenge University’s Plan to Run North Campus Additions on Natural Gas
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“[The project is] being designed in a way that can be switched over in the future to other renewable energy sources when they become more efficient than the Cornell district energy system,” Wolf said.
donations
Donors Give $512 Million to the University During Fiscal Year 2018
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This amount is less than the $743 million received in Fiscal Year 2017, according to Fred Van Sickle, vice president of alumni affairs and development.