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American Sign Language Courses Will Be Offered as Soon as Fall 2019
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“I think it’s been a really long journey for all of us,” founding member of Cornell University Deaf Awareness Project Jackie Rachaf ’14 told The Sun.
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Arts and Sciences Dean Jayawardhana Wins Humanitarian Award
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“It’s very important that scientists in general engage in the public conversation and we celebrate the people that excel at it,” Lincoln said.
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.
Wood Street Park
ICUCME Hosts Third Building Unity: Cleaning the Hate
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Ithaca Coalition for Unity and Cooperation in the Middle East hosted their third Building Unity: Cleaning the Hate at Wood Street Park.
Arts and Sciences
Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana Named as Dean of College of Arts & Sciences
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Jayawardhana said he is “delighted” to become a part of the “vibrant community of scholars” at the University.
language requirement
Arts and Sciences Faculty Declines to Vote on Language Requirement
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Arts college faculty decided to not vote on a proposal to keep the college’s language requirement the same, putting off a decision on the requirement to an undetermined date.
Arts and Sciences
Administrators Tackle Admissions and Advising Problems at Cornell
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Bean mentioned the “pressure with focusing on professional pathways,” the struggle to show the desirability of a liberal arts degree, the increasing need for internship experience and the uniqueness of serving both the liberal arts college and the surrounding pre-professional schools.
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GUEST ROOM | Valuing Our Interdisciplinary Programs
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I believe deeply in the value of these programs. As research enterprises and educational units, these programs greatly enrich the College of Arts & Sciences. In the context of the curriculum review we are currently endeavoring in the college, our faculty have affirmed the value of such considerations with the proposal to add a “human difference” category to the breadth requirements. If we are to prepare our students to be good global citizens and navigate an increasingly heterogeneous world, then we must prepare them to understand how social categories are created, and the implications that this has for our society more broadly.
News
Arts and Sciences to Offer New Environmental Sustainability Major
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A new environmental sustainability major was approved last Wednesday by the Cornell Faculty Senate and will be available by fall 2018.
Arts and Sciences
Third Annual Giving Day Raises Over $6 Million
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The annual Cornell Giving Day received over 6 million dollars in donations on Tuesday.