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Variations in Technology Access Create Academic Uncertainty Among Students
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Cornell’s academic reliance on technology combined with limited tech resources continue to concern students after a return to in-person learning.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/equity/page/2/)
Cornell’s academic reliance on technology combined with limited tech resources continue to concern students after a return to in-person learning.
In a campaign season, the ILR school follows suit in conducting Student Government Assembly elections for their next president, addressing issues including equity and school independence.
In the latest in a long line of emails about anti-racism at Cornell, President Martha E. Pollack gave updates about the University’s progress.
Cornell’s College of Engineering has more than a few crowning jewels to stake its pride and reputation on — like its extensive set of project teams, its cutting-edge research with world-renowned professors and, of course, the fact that 53 percent of its incoming class is now female. In fact, the college’s website lists the latter number first, even before the fact that the college hosts one of the top 10 undergraduate engineering programs in the country. But why care so much? Why even bother working so hard to get that even male-female ratio in a male-dominated field? The reason — as anyone in engineering admissions can recite by heart — is to make it so that anyone, regardless of who they are, feels welcome, as though who they are and what they look like isn’t an obstacle to be overcome in their success there.
The Cornell Lending Library will begin offering travel grants on a rolling basis to undergraduates who travel off-campus to take pre-professional tests or participate in interviews, the organization announced on March 7.