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I believe the ability to develop language skills at Cornell depends far more on the knowledge that students have brought to Cornell, and it is not enough to set them up for practical success in language studies.
On Oct. 20, Assistant Professor Julia Chang will speak about her new book, discussing gender, caste, race and the significance of blood in Spanish Literature.
Cornell welcomes 15 new faculty members into the College of the Arts and Sciences.
The College of Arts and Sciences hosted Aftershocks — an Arts Unplugged event — on Sept. 22 featured journalists and professors speaking on the global effects of the Russia-Ukraine war.
After a large donation from Robert S. Harrison ’76, the College Scholar Program will be renamed in his name.
A new School of Public Policy in the works could alter the future of policy studies at Cornell.
We should be encouraging a push in requirements to deliberately include literature that interacts with race, racism, gender, sexuality and colonialism.
On Thursday, Cornell held a virtual day-long reading of The Bluest Eye to celebrate the amazing career of author Toni Morrison M.A. ʼ55 and the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication. This event was the beginning of a year-long celebration of Toni Morrison as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts Unplugged Series. Morrison, one of Cornell’s most notable alumni, published The Bluest Eye, her first novel, in 1970. While the pandemic delayed this event from its original planned date last spring, there are some benefits to the virtual format. “The advantage of doing it remotely is that thousands of people everywhere can hear it, can see it,” said Professor Anne Adams, Africana Studies. “There’s more of a consistency to the experience of watching it than there would have been if we were going between live readers and readers being brought in remotely,” added Professor Roger Gilbert, English.
“While we understand this is a disappointment to some, this is the most equitable solution,” wrote Associate Dean of CALS Prof. Don Viands.
The College of Arts and Sciences dropped some graduation requirements, affording students who want to graduate early an easier path forward. The changes, passed in November, took effect this semester.