The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/anti-racism/)
Harvard professor and author Robert W. Livingston will interact with the Cornell community Wednesday in a virtual conversation discussing his 2021 book, “The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations.”
Anabel’s Grocery has committed to becoming an anti-racist organization by allocating funds from some products toward anti-racist student action on campus.
An interactive teach-in on anti-Asian racism and bias will feature presentations from students, staff and faculty on the history of different Asian communities in the US and at Cornell.
Former Cornell Tech visiting lecturer and researcher J. Khadijah Abdurahman alleges that racism was at the root of her recent firing.
At last week’s Faculty Senate meeting, proposals were heard on new anti-racism education requirements and preserving academic freedom.
Students provide their view on the controversial database launched by law school Professor William Jacobson.
Following University statements on anti-racism initiatives, student leaders call for further action across campus.
Dr. Avery August , Cornell’s Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and leader of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, shared his optimism with The Sun that the past six months offered an opportunity for higher education to change for the better.
Students and faculty discussed their own activism and scrutinized Cornell’s solutions to inequality during an Oct. 14 conversation on “Anti-Racism, Activism and Institutional Change” organized by the Institute for Comparative Modernities.
To the Editor:
On September 7, a group of professors, graduate students and staff published an open letter to President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff, listing the measures they deem necessary for an “anti-racist Cornell.” Buried within this set of proposals was the curious request that the University address “Cornell Tech’s involvement in the gentrification of Queens and, through its institutional partnership with Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, the military occupation of Palestine.”
Naturally, the authors fail to elaborate further on the nonexistent connection between the Technion and race-related initiatives at Cornell. Perhaps they are unsure themselves. Nor do they request that the University address any of its other international partnerships. Instead, they choose to single out the world’s only Jewish state for opprobrium. The decision to gratuitously target Israel and simultaneously ignore Cornell’s actually questionable international relationships raises serious doubts about the intentions and motives of the authors.